There are 78 balls on the small numeral frame. What have I made? How am I to prove it?-Please, Sir, count the balls. Having complied with their request, I ask, What have I done? They will answer, Made an assertion, and proved it.

What do you know me by?-By your looks, voice, and speech; or by looking at and listening to you.

What is a question?-How many days are there in a week ?. An assertion --The grass is green. A command P-Stand up. A desire?—I wish you were all happy. Tell me of a dry wind?— West. A wet wind? East. A hot wind?-South. A cold wind? -North. How do you feel when you want food?-When you want drink?-When you want rest? When you want to go to bed?-Mention an animal that neighs; that brays; that roars; that howls; that grunts; that squeaks; that barks; that mews; that sings; that coos; that crows; that flies; that creeps; that hops; that jumps; that claws; that stings; that has a trunk; that has a long neck. An insect?-A small creeping flying animal. A reptile? A fish that they strike with a harpoon; that turns on its back to bite. How many animal motions?-Walking: swimming; creeping; flying; running; jumping; hopping. Tell me of something that's sweet; that's bitter; that's rough; that's smooth; that's clear; that's high; that's low; that's dull; that's bright; that's light; that's heavy; that's wet; that's hard; that's soft; that's hot; that's cold; that pricks; that cuts; that bores; that grinds; that's gritty; that's transparent; that's opaque; that's green; that's black; that's blue; that's white; that's yellow; that's red. Point to the zenith; to the nadir; to the meridian; to the south; to the north; to the east; to the west; to a circle; a right angle; an acute angle; an obtuse angle; a rectangle; a corner; an oval; make a curved line with your fingers, a sloping line. Tell me of a visible fluid?Water. An invisible fluid?-Air. An invisible being?-God.* What have you that is invisible?-Our soul.

What has to do with sight?-Colour, number, shape, size, comparison, difference, measure. What with feeling?--Heat, cold, wet, dry, rough, smooth, hard, soft, weight, ease, pain, hunger, thirst. What with taste?-Sweet, sour. What with smell-Pleasant or unpleasant. What with hearing?-Sound, loud, soft, harmony, discord. Let two children pass each other, to give the idea. Select 66 Second a boy and say, "First Person," he will point to himself; Person," and he will point to you; "Third Person," and he will point to one of the children. One of the masculine gender come to me. Fetch me something belonging to the mineral kingdom, that's black; that's white. Fetch me something from the vegetable kingdom that's green; that has a pleasant smell. One of the feminine gender come to me. Bring me one of the masculine gender with light hair; with a green frock. Rising; (here the children

"Mr. B- -n, we can see you, because you are visible; you are only in one place, but God is every where. We must not do what we choose, but what he tells us. He speaks to us, but we cannot see him; when we read the Bible, he reads with us.' "—A child six years of age.

gradually raise their hands;) Falling; (here they gradually lower them.) Every thing of this kind that the Teacher can invent, is sure to succeed. The children are amused, exercised, and instructed at the same time; they become a book to themselves, and their Teacher; who feels, in every stage of his duty, the blessedness of being freed from the shackles of a mere repetition system; a system this which prevents him from meeting the wants of the children, because the native energy of his understanding is repressed, and himself, with the objects of his charge, return to the point from whence they set out: constant repetition, without gaining a single idea. In order to avoid this dilemma, we have adopted the method of calling into action as much as possible the physical energies and intellectual faculties of the children. They move their fingers, and say, "Finger joints;" their elbows, and repeat, "Elbow joints;" and, throwing back their arms, so as to expand the chest, and whirling them round, so as to give the shoulders full play, they say, "Shoulder joints." Sometimes they fetch a garden pot, with a plant, and we converse with them thus: Point to an artificial object. The pot. A natural object.*-The plant, which lives, grows, but has no sense; has vegetable, but not animal life. Tell the difference between a plant and a beast.-A plant lives, grows, but has no sensation; cannot see, feel, hear, taste, smell. A beast lives, grows, has sensation, can move, but has no understanding. Who is greater than the beast?-Man. He lives, grows, has the five senses, but above all, an immortal soul.

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'Tis religion that must give,
Sweetest pleasures while we live ;
"Tis religion must supply,

Solid comfort when we die.

*The following conversation on this subject, occurred about four months since; having selected a garden pot and plant, I said to one of the children: Point to an artificial object.

Child. The garden pot.

T.-Who made the garden pot?

C.-Man or boy :-a human agent.
T-Who made the plant?

C-Almighty God,-a divine agent. "We might as well say," continued this interesting child, "that Almighty God made the whole, as man could not have made the pot without clay; he could not have planned it, had not God given him wisdom; nor formed it, had he not given him power or strength.”

† Sometimes the children, in order to illustrate lessons of this kind, will take up a piece of chalk, or coal, and remark,-"The chalk cannot smell or hear; the coal will not move, if I call out ever so loud or long; but if Master tells me, I move directly." A little girl said lately, "Mother, do you love the Saviour? I love the live Saviour, not the Saviour on the picture; that is only a representation." Another said very recently, "Eternity is like a circle; it has neither beginning nor end."

After death its joys will be
Lasting as eternity:

Be the living God my friend,

Then my bliss shall never end.

LIFE OF THE SAVIOUR.*-Where was Christ born?-What country? What quarter of the world?-Where did he talk with the Doctors? Where was he baptized?-By whom?-What happened then? Where was he tempted?-By whom ?t-How long?-What particular place did he preach on ?-What did he preach about?Who did he converse with ?-His disciples, Nicodemus, the woman of Samaria. Who did he send to preach ?-Twelve, and afterwards seventy disciples.-Who did he bless ?-Where was he transfigured ?-Who got up into a tree to look at him ?-What city did he ride into?-On what?-Who wanted to kill him?-Who betrayed him? Who denied him?-Where did he sweat blood ?—— Where was he crucified ?-What happened then?-Who watched his tomb? When did he rise from the dead?-Who did he appear to?-The two disciples going to Emmaus; to the Apostles; to Thomas. What did he command his disciples to do?-Where and when did he ascend up into heaven ?

Speak of the miracles of Jesus. Turning water into wine, John ii. 3-10; cleansing the leper, Matt. viii. I-4; paralytic healed, Matt. ix. 1-9; curing of the impotent man, John v.; healing of the centurion's servant,-raising of the widow's son, Luke vii. 110, 11-17; stilling the tempest, Matt. viii. 18-27; raising the ruler's daughter, Luke viii. 40; feeding the five thousand, Matt. xiv. 13-21; walking on the sea, Matt. xiv. 25-26; feeding the four thousand, Mark viii. 1-9; man cured of the dropsy, Luke xiv. 1-4; cleansing ten lepers, Luke xvii. 11-19; restoring sight to the man born blind, John ix; raising of Lazarus,§ John xi; curing blind men, Matt. xx. 30-34.

Tell me of a command..—“ Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy;" "Love one another;"" Children, obey your parents in all

* While we were dwelling on this subject, a child observed, "Sir, we ought to pray to Jesus to give us a mind to remember the things you say to us about him, because he came into the world to save us."

When referring to this circumstance one day, a little boy remarked, "Please Mr. B―n, I read in a little book that 'the devil goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.' When we kneel down by the bed to pray, he comes and tries to get us from Jesus Christ."

+ CONVERSATION ON THIS SUBJECT.

The Teacher having explained to his children the dreadful nature of the disease called leprosy, and told them that it was so infectious, that persons afflicted with it, were obliged to be separated from society, asked one of them, "in what respect this disease represented the spiritual state of man?" The child replied as follows:-"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; and as the leprosy caused the man to be put out of the city, so sin, unless taken away from the heart, will shut us out of the kingdom of heaven."

Another replied:-"We should pray to God to take away the heart of stone, and give us a heart of flesh; for if we keep naughty, when we go with other children, we shall make them naughty too, the same as if persons lived with a leper, they would catch the leprosy from him."

§ F-, Lazarus would not have come out of the grave if you or M- had said, Lazarus come forth, because you are not Almighty God.

things." Who sins openly on the Sabbath?-The man who works. Who sins secretly? The man who gives his mind to worldly thoughts. Mention a declaration.-"I am come that they might have life." A complaint.-" And ye will not come to me that ye may have life." A question."Wilt thou be made whole?"

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" An answer-" Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." A promise." The Lord will give grace and glory." A duty.-"Repent." A reason for this. The kingdom of heaven is at hand." A prophecy and a comparison." The knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." A note of admiration!" Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we. should be called the Sons of God!" A note of interrogation ?— "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” Of being reconciled to God, 2 Cor. v. 19-21. Mention some texts that speak of the grace (or favour) of God.-John i. 16, 17; Acts xi. 23; Rom. iii. 24; v. 20, 21; Ephes. i. 7; ii. 7, 8; 1 Tim. i. 14; 1 Thess. v.; Titus ii. 11; iii. 8; Heb. iv. 16; 1 Pet. v. 10. Of prayer.-Matt. vi. 10; vii.; Eph. vi. 18.*

Practice in the following way:-As one is to two, two are to four. Put out one ball on the top wire of the Numeral Frame, and then place two underneath it on the next, calling out,-" As one is to two," and the children will soon understand the rule. Take out another ball on the top wire, place two balls under as before, and say," As two are to four," and you will convince them, in the most effectual way, of the proportion one number bears to another. Apply the rule thus:-If the price of two apples is a halfpenny, how many ought I to have for a penny? Then as 1 is to 3, 2 are to 6; 3 are to 9; 4 are to 12; 5 are to 15; 6 are to 18; 7 are to 21; 8 are to 24; 9 are to 27; 10 are to 30.

Moving the ball on the top wire of the single frame, to the other side, we say,-1 is the 12th of 12; and going down the frame we repeat, 1 is the 11th of 11; 1 is the 10th of 10; 1 is the 9th of 9; 1 is the 8th of 8; 1 is the 7th of 7; 1 is the 6th of 6; 1 is the 5th of 5; 1 is the 4th of 4; 1 is the 3d of 3; 1 is the half of 2; 1 is the whole of one. You may amplify this method of instruction, as opportunity serves.

We sometimes amuse the children by taking out eight balls, for the furlongs of a mile, and place one ball opposite for a mile-post; and they are so pleased with this lesson, that they often request to go a journey (as they term it) on the frame.

"Improvement and delight go hand in hand."

Reading is one of the most difficult things we have to teach, and that for this reason: Letters are mere signs; they do not present any object before the child to excite its attention, and hence, when using the Picture Lessons, with reading under them, we have found it almost impossible to draw the attention of the children from the picture to the reading, they are so much more interested with ob

* A child six years old said, "When we kneel down in the school room to pray, it seems as if my heart talked.-It is of no use without our heart prays."

jects than signs. In order, however, to lead them forward in this exercise, we have large Lessons, each containing only a part of the alphabet: the children being seated in the gallery, we ask them to spell a word for which there are not enough letters on the Lesson, and they will search the Lesson over and over again, to find the letter that is wanted to complete the word. The other methods of teaching them to read, are very similar to those which are adopted at the British and Foreign School.

In using the pictures, we find it useful to allow a child to stand up and point to and name one object, and then for another child to point out and name some other; by so doing, they will soon analyze a set of pictures with profit. They receive more instruction by this method, than they do by having the objects pointed out and named for them.

*The Teacher mentions one word, and the children give the opposite one.