Does your heart give a great leap at the prospect my words open out to you? Do you see how much there is for you to do single-handed, with no help but that which arises from your own method and your own prayers. Don't be disheartened. Remember your future success depends upon your present effort. It will have to be up hill work for a time if the children have been managed differently, but don't give up. The day will come when you will look back thankfully on this time as that which had most influence on your after career, and you will be able to say, "I fought the battle with myself in the early days of my profession, so I have no battle to fight with my children now."

V.

Ways and Means-continued.

E said the second part of a teacher's work related to the instruction to be

imparted.

Now the efficiency of all instruction depends mainly upon two things. First, preparation for the lesson by the teacher; second, co-operation during the lesson from the children. We will consider these points in turn.

First, then, every teacher should prepare the lesson before attempting to deliver it. This need not be a very ceremonious affair. It would be impossible to prepare notes of every lesson, even if such a thing were advisable. The kind of preparation to which I refer is that which will prevent any mistake or loss of time. A glance

over the matter to be imparted will be sufficient

in many cases, but even this will make the work you have to do readier and pleasanter to yourself. For your own sake, your mind should be quite clear on certain points before you meet the class. First-How much is to be taught at this particular time?

Second-Do I know it myself?

Third-Is it quite within the capacities of the children.

If we go to our children without marking out a certain portion as enough to be mastered at that time, our lesson will be remarkable for nothing so much as its incompleteness.

It is necessary in every subject to carry the learners on, step by step, and to complete one step before we commence another, binding the whole together at the lesson's close. For we may take up any matter and go rambling on as long as time permits, without any one being much the better for the effort.

You have decided for you, or you have to decide for yourself, how much of any subject you should get through in a given time-a year per

haps, or six months.

Well, make a skeleton

syllabus to guide you. so many lessons, and the outline of the course of each lesson. A glance at this afterwards will show you the plan to be carried out, and the way in which one lesson is to be made to fit into another, so that the whole may be connected and entire.

Mark out so many stages,

Such a plan will produce much good. Methodical work has always greater efficiency than work without method, and the teacher will feel familiar with the ground to be trodden, and will produce confidence and more thorough work on both sides.

And every teacher knows there is scarcely a lesson but one or more questions may arise which they may be unprepared to answer, without some little preparation. The children may require some point elucidated-it may be the very point

upon which the success of the lesson will depend mainly—and from lack of a little previous thought the teacher may fail the pupils in their need.

Look over every lesson, then, and strengthen any weak point in your own information. See that every difficulty is quite clear to your own mind, else how can you teach?

And when it is so clear and plain to yourself, don't fall into an opposite error and think all the world must know what you know. We are all too apt to soar above the minds of our little ones.

Surely they must know that. I cannot remember the time when I did not know it." Very likely, but there was such a time, nevertheless, and each of your pupils may be in the precise condition in which you were at that time. Don't take it for granted that the children must know anything connected with what you wish to impart. Make sure about it, impart the needed information if it is not there, and proceed. Your lesson will be without any foundation if you neglect this.