It will be pleasanter for you if you do it silently." Intelligent children will be interested even in so simple a point as this--much more interested than a maturer mind, unacquainted with the peculiarities of children, would suppose.

By bringing up from time to time some such literary inquiry as this, they will be led insensibly to regard the Bible as opening a field for interesting intellectual research, and will more easily be led to study it.
At another time the teacher spends his five minutes in aiming to accomplish a very different object.

I will suppose it to be one of those afternoons when all has gone smoothly and pleasantly in school.

There has been nothing to excite strong interest or emotion; and there has been (as every teacher knows there sometimes will be), without any assignable cause which he can perceive, a calm, and quiet, and happy spirit diffused over the minds and countenances of the little assembly.
His evening communication should accord with this feeling, and he should make it the occasion to promote those pure and hallowed emotions in which every immortal mind must find its happiness, if it is to enjoy any worth possessing.
When all is still, the teacher addresses his pupils as follows: "I have nothing but a simple story to tell you to-night.

It is true, and the fact interested me very much when I witnessed it, but I do not know that it will interest you now merely to hear it repeated.