have been taught during the preceding three months: (2) The Golden Text,* which embodies the leading truth in the lesson: (3) The Lesson Verse is supplied in the NOTES, PICTORIAL LESSON PAPERS and POCKET LESSON BOOK, and forms a companion exercise thereto (4) Home Readings for every day in the week: and (5) Home Questions to assist private study, are inserted in the Lesson Papers: also Connecting Links, and brief Explanatory Notes bearing upon the Sunday's Lesson. Where the attention of the children is frequently directed to the important duty of private preparation, the Pictorial Lesson Papers have been found invaluable.†

Each scholar should be supplied with a Lesson Paper a week in advance, and there will then be no excuse for children coming unprepared. For why should not scholars as well as teachers prepare for the Sunday Lessons? Why should they not read and think and inquire during the previous week? What life and interest would be imparted to the Sabbath exercises if such were the case!

But this is not all. Papers are sometimes lost, or torn, or mislaid, while little books may be kept safely in the pocket for weeks and months. A POCKET LESSON BOOK for teachers and scholars is, therefore, issued quarterly, price One Penny, containing the Golden Texts, Home Readings, and Lesson Verses; and, as a further help, THE INTERNATIONAL DAILY TEXT Book, price 6d., in which the passages for each day are as far as possible selected from the Home Readings, thus securing that the daily portion shall be in the line of the Sunday's Lesson.

The Box of Moveable Letters will be found a valuable auxiliary for use in the younger classes, as affording an interesting means of communicating instruction. For full particulars see catalogues. The prices are as follows:-A Deal Box, containing 350 letters, numbers, stops, &c. &c., 20s.; Large Oak Box, containing 700 letters, &c., fitted with two keys and reversible lid, for use as a black-board, 50s. Specimens may be seen at the Society's Depôt, 56, Old Bailey, London, E.C.

* This is also published quarterly on single sheets, in very large type. Price 2s. 6d. the set for the quarter.

Price 4d. a packet, containing 12 for each Sunday in the month.

It is presumed that every teacher will be supplied monthly with the Notes on the Scripture Lessons, and that he will, by the study of them, and by regular weekly attendance at the preparation class, make himself master of the subject, and thus be thoroughly prepared to teach the lessons for the day.

It should be remembered that, in consequence of the limited space at command, in some cases a large portion of the lesson selected for the elder classes is necessarily omitted. The teacher, therefore, may have to introduce the subject, of supply a connecting link in the middle. When a short line is inserted, it is to show that either the selection is from two separate chapters, or the continuity of the reading is broken. This gives a larger scope in the selection, and with care will make the lesson more interesting both to the teacher and scholar.

1. The children should be encouraged to commit to memory during the week the Golden Text and the Lesson Verse.

2. Each scholar being provided with the lesson, the teacher should announce the appointed subject, and briefly introduce it in a lively and attractive manner, by the aid of some well-chosen illustration which shall naturally lead on to the main facts or doctrines of the lesson to be taught; thus tending to secure for it the interest and attention of the class.

3. The lesson may then be read by the scholars simultaneously or individually, the teacher reading a portion in turn.

4. The teacher having previously divided the lesson into sections according to its character and meaning, the first section should be read again, and, by suitable questioning, explanation, and illustration, its meaning made plain to the scholars. The other sections should be dealt with in a similar manner. Examination by questions should follow each

section.

5. In the foregoing exercises the leading practical truth or truths which the teacher desires to impress on the mind and heart should be constantly kept in view, and gradually brought out as the lesson is proceeded with. The close of the teaching will consist of a brief and earnest attempt to press home the practical application of these truths in the most forcible and affectionate manner.

If these suggestions be duly considered, and, as far as applicable to each particular case, be carried out with an earnest spirit, a loving heart, and in prayerful dependence on the Holy Spirit, teachers will not fail to secure the blessing of Him who hath said, "My word shall not return unto Me void."

The LIST OF SCRIPTURE LESSONS for the entire year is published at 1s. per 100, and will also be found in the "Sunday School Illustrated Almanack," price One Penny.

The great work of religious instruction will be materially assisted by teachers inducing the parents of Sunday scholars to post up in their dwellings, where it may conveniently and continually be seen, a copy of the List of Lessons or the Sunday School Illustrated Almanack.

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FIDELITY.

GOLDEN TEXT.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.-LUKE xvi. 10.

GENESIS xxiv. 9-14.

AND the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw

water :

And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

ISAAC'S PROSPERITY.

GOLDEN TEXT.

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it.-PROVERBS X. 22.

GENESIS xxvi. 12-17; 23-25.

THEN Isaac Sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord.