"LOVING" your scholars, and "influencing" your scholars, are by no means identical; although the two things very often go together. A teacher who loves his scholars and who is loved by his scholars is pretty sure to influence his scholars; but a teacher may influence his scholars without either loving them or being loved by them. A teacher may have and exert an influence by the purity of his life, by the strength of his character, by the positiveness of his convictions, by the earnestness of his nature, by the persuasiveness of his words and manner, and yet be unloving and unloved as a teacher. But loving is as clearly a duty as influencing, on the part of a Sabbath-school teacher. Loving and winning are an inseparable portion of the obligations resting on every disciple of Christ, who goes in the name of Christ to those for whom Christ died.—Sel.