HOW TO KILL OFF YOUR SUPERINTENDENT.
By Sabbath Recorder
Let him know that, as a teacher, you can manage your own affairs without his assistance. There are several ways by which you may communicate this information, all or any of them warranted to do the business without a personal announcement; for instance, when he speaks from the desk, be as oblivious as possible of the fact by reading a paper, talking to your class in an undertone, taking account of attendance, finishing up some story you were telling, or taking the class contribution. When the school is asked to sing, remain stoically indifferent to the fact by keeping your seat, thus showing as little respect for the well ordering of the school as could well be. In time of prayer, allow your class, if children, to gaze about the room, occasionally laugh and whisper, to the great annoyance of such as would join in the prayer. In the recitation, seek to entertain the scholars simply, thus killing both ways. Do not attend the appointments of your superintendent. Be sure and let him know, by your absence from teachers' meetings, that you are entirely competent to teach a Sabbath-school class without anybody's assistance, and prefer to teach your own way. If you are the pastor of the church also, studiously refrain from speaking a word of encouragement or approval from year to year to him whose burden at times seems more than he can bear. Let him know unmistakably by such kind of recognition of service, that all his anxiety, his continuous effort to make a success of his school, his hard, self-sacrificing labor goes for naught, humanly speaking.—Sabbath Recorder.