SUGGESTIVE TO TEACHERS.
By Helen H. Thomas
[Helen H. Thomas, in the Minnesota Worker.] THEY were talking of their respective Sabbath-school teachers, and the following was overheard: “I wish you would go with me some Sabbath; my teacher is so entertaining. She always has a story right to the point.” “But does she find out what you know or don't know?” queried the other. “No, indeed,” was the emphatic reply, “she is so full of the lesson that she just bubbles over to the extent that there is no time left to draw us out, so I never have to study the lesson.” “Well, she is quite the reverse of my teacher. Miss Blank is always prepared to throw light on what puzzles us, but she has such a happy way of finding out what we know that I never dare go into the class unprepared. So I begin on the next lesson as soon as possible and give it some thought every day in the week.” “Why, I wouldn't go to Sabbath-school if I had that sort of teacher!” exclaimed the first speaker. “Here it is Friday night and I haven't the slightest idea what to-morrow's lesson is to be.” Then, with an indifferent air she added: “But my teacher will never know the difference. She's just splendid! You'd better come with me, and then you won't have to study your lesson.” “Thank you, but I can't afford to make the change,” was the rejoinder, “for I find that it pays to have a teacher who compels us to study and think for ourselves.” The foregoing not only furnished me a key to the superiority, the strength of character, of the last speaker, but seemed suggestive, as well, to teachers who are inclined to “bubble over.”