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WE solicit the attention of Subscribers, and several Societies, to the loss and inconvenience caused by many. of them not taking their usual supply of the July and August numbers of the Magazine, on account of their schools being vacant during the summer months. It would be a favour to the Publication Committee if Superintendents would arrange to keep their Teachers supplied continuously. Teachers, who bind their Magazine, often apply for these months' numbers when they are out of print; but the Committee cannot undertake to print and keep in stock, for any length of time, more copies than are certain to be wanted.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

WE beg to remind Correspondents that we are obliged to page the matter for each month by the 15th, and that all communications should be sent in to the Publishers not later than the 10th of each month.

SCHOOL LIBRARIES AT HALF-PRICE.

THE Publication Committee of the Union have made arrangements with the Religious Tract Society of London, by which they are enabled to supply selections of their valuable books, specially bound, and otherwise suitable for Sabbath School Libraries, at One-half their Catalogue Prices.

Forms of Application and Catalogues may be obtained by writing to the SECRETARIES of the Glasgow Sabbath School Union, CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE, 70 BOTHWELL STREET, GLASGOW.

BOOKS FOR TEACHERS AT HALF-PRICE.

UNDER the Union's Private Library Scheme, Teachers in Schools affiliated to the Glasgow Union are supplied with Commentaries and many other valuable books helpful to them in their work, at One-half the published prices. Catalogues and Forms of Application may be obtained from the Secretaries of the Union, 70 Bothwell Street; and specimens of the volumes offered can be seen in the Office of the Union, No. 7 Room, Christian Institute.

GOLDEN TEXTS FOR INFANT CLASSES,

IN VERY LARGE TYPE,

Forming WALL SHEETS, 18 x 22 inches.

IN HALF-YEARLY SETS, MOUNTED ON ROLLER, 3s. PER SET.

THESE are specially intended for Teachers of Infant Classes which meet apart from the general school. The boldness of the type enables 100 to 200 scholars to read the Text simultaneously.

THREE DIFFERENT SETS PUBLISHED.

Every Infant Class should use them.

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In Coloured Cover, 15 pp., Price 2d., or 1s. 6d. per Dozen, SABBATH SCHOOL UNIONS: SUGGESTIONS for their FORMATION and MANAGEMENT.

BY MR. JAMES RICHMOND.

With an Appendix, consisting of FORM of CONSTITUTION, RULES, &c.

JOHN M'CALLUM & CO.,

172 and 174 BUCHANAN STREET, GLASGOW.

THE

Sabbath School Magazine.

NO. VI.]

JUNE 1, 1882.

[VOL. XXXIV.

What Teaching Is;

OR, HAVING THE ATTENTION OF THOSE YOU TEACH.

TEACHING is essentially and invariably a two-fold process. It always requires two persons for its completion. There can be no teaching by any one, unless there is also learning by some one. One person may tell a thing without teaching it; for telling a thing is not in itself teaching that thing, however these two processes may go on together. One person may hear another recite without being a teacher; for hearing a recitation is not in itself teaching the thing recited, whatever relation teaching and recitation may have, the one to the other, in any particular case. Teaching includes in itself the idea of causing another to know; and until some one has been caused to know, teaching is, at the best, but an unattained endeavour.

This being the truth concerning teaching, it is obvious, that when the teacher has his scholar before him; has, also, in his own mind well-defined facts or views which he would transfer to the mind of his scholar; and has, furthermore, a well-defined plan of teaching;—all this preparedness amounts to just nothing at all, unless the teacher has and holds the attention of his scholar. Without the attention of his scholar, the best teacher in the world cannot be a teacher to that scholar. Shakespeare says:

"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither is attended;"

and the poorest teacher can do no worse than the best teacher, when neither has attention.

So far, perhaps, all will be ready to agree. Every teacher expects to have his scholars' attention; and many a teacher flatters himself that he has it, when nothing like it is given to him. What is attention? Attention is literally the stretching of one's self toward a thing: it is "the energetic application of the mind to any object," "with a view to perceive, understand, or comply." Attention involves the giving of one's self, by an intelligent surrender or devotion, to the one thing reached

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