terms of the child's response to our efforts. We must realize that we
have failed except as we have caused the child's spiritual nature to
unfold and his character to grow toward the Christ ideal.

1. As you think of your own teaching, are you able to decide
whether you have been sufficiently clear in your objective? Have
you rather _assumed_ that if you presented the lessons as they came
the results must of necessity follow, or have you been alive to the
real effects on your pupils?

2. Are you able to discover definite changes that are working out
in the lives of your pupils from month to month as you have them
under your instruction? Are they more reverent, more truthful, more
sure against temptation, increasingly conscious of God in their
lives? What other effects might you look for?

3. Do you think that the church is in some degree overlooking its
most strategic opportunity in not providing more efficiently for
the religious education of its children? If more attention were
given to religious nurture of children, would the problems of
evangelism be less pressing, and a larger proportion of adults
found in the church? What can the church school do to help? What
can your class do?

4. Do you love the matter that you seek to teach the children? Do
you love it for what it means to you, or for what through it you
can do for them? Do you look upon the material you teach truly as a
means and not as an end? Are you teaching subject matter or
children?