The store, the bank, and the office. Profession of religion for credit. Political, on 'change, fashionable, flattering. 9. _Children's Dangers._ Don't tell mother. Boy getting my white-alley. Desire to please teachers or gain praise. The hypocrite lies with his hands, face, clothes, gifts. 10. _Illustrations._ Photograph--Absalom's monument. Friar--Nelly and love of Jesus. Picture of a hypocritical saint--London beggar. 11. _Absalom's double face to his father and to God._ Picture the scene. 2 Sam. xv. 1-13. 12. _Hypocrisy._ Its meaning. Its folly. Its causes. Its end. The simple notes certainly give but a faint idea of how thoroughly hypocrisy is unmasked in this lesson. The teacher or scholar will never forget it. "_Intense_ study" should be contrasted with the _easy_-chair, lounging, intermitting study of many. "The store, the bank," etc., refer to rum shops; so named that husbands and young men who return at late hours may say, I have just left "_the bank_," etc. The "photograph of Absalom's monument" reminds us that, to this day, every Jew casts a stone at it, and curses the hypocrite's memory; and so on with the other illustrations. The following brief notes were taken at one of our New York Association's meetings: Subject--How to prepare a Sabbath-school lesson. "Piety _alone_ is not what we want in Sabbath-school teaching any more than preaching." Take the lesson--Luke xviii. 35--"A certain blind man," etc. Take a good Reference Bible and a Bible Dictionary. I ask myself, What is in this passage? A miracle. Say something about miracles, but never lead a child into deep water. I can never make a thing plain to another that I cannot make plain to myself. You cannot teach more than you can put into words, etc. Tell them about a particular part of the country: Jericho (Josh. ii., and 2 Kings xvi. 34), sixteen miles from Jerusalem, and about six from the river Jordan. I find here a beggar--_two_, but one is silent. "Jesus, thou Son of David"--the sublime epithet applied to the Messiah. His suit is for mercy. "Cried the _more_"--evidence of faith--plea for mercy--earnestness. Jesus is arrested in his progress by the prayer of the needy man. Prayer arrests all laws. Jesus stood and commanded. You have got to come to Jesus. Submission to Jesus absolutely essential. What wilt thou? We are to tell Christ just what we want. Prayer is absolutely necessary. Jesus made the blind man tell Him. Revive thy faith. Must believe. How apply. What last impressions to leave. Jesus was going up to Jerusalem for the last time. Only opportunity, or last opportunity. All go. This opportunity, dear boys, may be the last. The superintendent, as well as the teachers, needs the most ample and careful preparation of the lesson, in order to suggest and aid and sympathize with the teachers and school, and to conduct the teachers' meeting. X. THE TEACHER TEACHING.