Object of the Teachers' Meeting.
By Editor
THE following from the S. S. Times we can most heartily endorse. If each teacher would come to the meeting with the determination to contribute as well as to receive, there would be marked improvement. In mental and spiritual matters, at least, it is true that the more we give the more we gain. "The object of a teachers' meeting is misunderstood by too many. It is not to study the lesson, though that, in spite of all assertions to the contrary, seems to be the prevailing conception. Its proper object is to pile together the nuggets that all have dug out of the lesson, thus enriching all without impoverishing any. That which makes the majority of teachers' meetings without attractive power, is the fact that the teachers come without having searched beforehand for the hidden treasures of the lesson. They have nothing to contribute of any value. The empty baskets are shaken for a while, but as nothing comes out of them worth the having, the teachers go away with the idea that teachers' meeting is time wasted. A single session where each one brings in a gem of thought of his own finding, would dissipate that notion forever. There are teachers' meetings of this sort whose members would prefer to lose any other weekly gathering than to miss a single session of the one that prepares them to teach the next lesson." THE teachers' meeting is especially beneficial in that it gives opportunity for harmonizing the teaching, and to a great extent shuts out clashing in the school. It unifies the instruction, and begets a better understanding of the work.