2d. Another plan of conducting them is in the form of lectures. But on this plan not even an expository lecture has prevented the meeting from being a failure. Occasionally a pastor or a superintendent, with great expository powers and a sprightly manner of analyzing truth and a personal sympathy with the teachers and children, can sustain and make these meetings interesting and profitable on this plan, and to such we can say--God bless you--_go on_! But we cannot afford to recommend any plan for general adoption with such a prospect of failure. What, then, must be done? We say decidedly, _revolutionize your plans_, and meet with the direct aim and purpose of _helping one another_ in your work, and especially on the next Sabbath's lesson. What then are the objects of teachers' meetings, and how should they be conducted? The objects appear to me to be--1. To get all the teachers well acquainted, socially and religiously, and as teachers. 2. To combine our mutual confidences, sympathies and prayers. 3. To mutually help each other and relieve each other's difficulties by conferring together on such questions as--how best to secure and retain attention;--how to question;--how to prepare the lesson and present it, and teach it;--how to draw lessons of instruction, illustrate and apply truth;--how to analyze the lesson, lay out the plan of it, and break it up into small, convenient parcels, adapted to all capacities from the infant up to the adult classes;--how to make the Word of God most useful, most interesting and most impressive to youthful minds, convicting of sin and converting to God; and the thorough training of the young in the Christian life, and in the sound knowledge of revealed truth.