ELI. S. REINHELD, discoursing in the Sunday-school World on “The Master’s Methods,” says among other things:— “The Saviour in his instructions observed a fundamental principle in all good teaching—that of using the known to teach the unknown. By comparison, by contrast, by parables, and by symbols, he led the minds of his hearers to comprehend the high truths he taught to men. His favorite “it is like” might well be more generally used. When a statement of a truth or a fact is followed by an “it is like” that is clear and intelligible, scholars will grasp the illustration, and by it hold fast that which is illustrated. Such illustrations must be wisely adapted. To a farmer the Saviour would speak of the sower; to the shepherd of the lost sheep. The lessons he drew from the foolish builders, the leaven, the net, hired laborers, the lighted lamp, and scores of like instances, are evidences to us how wonderfully he adapted his teaching to the understandings of men.