Approach may occupy a large or small portion of the time allotted for teaching. A teacher may be twenty-nine minutes of his half hour making his approach, and in the remaining one minute flash the lesson straight into the center of the pupil’s soul. A teacher may reach his lesson in one minute and spend the whole remaining time in pressing it home to his pupil’s hearts. Imagine a Sunday-school hour. Picture: A new teacher for the first time with a class. Boys—six; age, fourteen years; unconverted; one dull, one stubborn, one restless, the rest mischievous. Opening exercises finished; lesson read; superintendent announces “Thirty minutes for the lesson.” The teacher alone with the class; four things press on that teacher with a mighty force: 1. _Self I._ Untaught in teaching, and the center for a circumference of eyes. 2. _Need._ The power of the word _must_ was never felt before so fully. Here is a lesson to be taught, and the thoughts in the teacher’s mind can only shape themselves into these two words: “_I must_.” 3. _Immediateness._ _Now._ Minutes become small eternities, while the cordon of eyes draws closer. “_I must now, at once, teach_ this lesson,” but 4. _How?_ After all it becomes a mere question of knowledge. There are three elements which enter in to make the answer— 1. How to prepare for the lesson work, making necessary a study of the (_a_) necessity, (_b_) nature, and (_c_) methods of preparation. 2. How to plan the conduct of the lesson, a step which costs (_a_) earnest thought, (_b_) fixed purpose, (_c_) persistent effort, and (_d_) patient prayer. 3. How to perform. This makes necessary a fertile brain and a ready tact. The actual step-taking on the line of a well-prepared plan consists in (_a_) using good illustrations; (_b_) in attracting attention to noticeable things in the text; (_c_) in exciting curiosity to find things not on the surface; (_d_) in asking right questions; (_e_) in using elliptical readings; (_f_) in working out topical outlines; (_g_) in concert responses, and (_h_) in map drawing. All these are steps toward the real lesson which the teacher would bring to his class. EDITOR’S OUTLOOK. FOUNDER’S DAY.