There is great value in the combined counsels and experience of almost any common band of teachers if fairly and fully drawn out. It will often be seen that "the commonest mind has thoughts worthy of the rarest." In this way the teachers' meetings can be sustained in the hands of ordinary superintendents, and will become the most attractive gatherings in the whole community. An accomplished young lady said to me: "One such meeting as this is worth more than a dozen costly New York parties." The teachers will regularly attend, for they need the assistance which can here be obtained. As well ask a brakeman to run a locomotive, or a spinner to superintend a factory, or an untaught man to teach an academy, as to ask an inexperienced person, or even a classical scholar, to teach divine truth when no one has taught him how. James Gall says, most truly, "Education is the highest of all the sciences, and teaching the most important of all the arts." Teachers then, need training, and the teachers' meeting can be made one of the most valuable means of securing it. One of the great objects of Sabbath-School Teachers' Institutes is to train superintendents, teachers, etc., so that they can interestingly and profitably conduct their weekly teachers' meetings, which are the real institutes for the great mass of teachers. _Examples._ The following Examples are real, as taken from my note-book during the present year: I. At one time the lesson was the parable of the Prodigal Son. The first teacher was called up for the best thought for his class in the lesson. He replied, "Like the prodigal, all children want to have their own way." The second teacher, "The farther he wandered the greater his misery." The third, "When _starving_, came to himself." 4. He resolved to "arise and go to his father." 5. "He _returned_." 6. "After his father fell on his neck, he _confessed_." 7. "His confidence in his father when he returned." 8. "His father saw him a _great way off_." 9. "Father _ran_,"--old men do not usually run. 10. "With joy _embraced_ and kissed him," etc. 11. "The degradation of a sinful course." 12. The father's wonderful condescension and willingness. II. At another teachers' meeting the lesson was Luke xviii. 18-27. The Young Ruler.--First, prayer, singing, and reading of the lesson. Then called on the teachers for their plan of teaching the lesson. The _First Teacher_ gave five heads. 1. Question, "What shall I do?" 2. Knowing the law. 3. Taking up the cross. 4. Rejecting the cross. 5. The great obstacle. _Second Teacher._--1. Eternal life, what is it? 2. Have you kept the law? 3. What else was required? 4. Come. 5. Overcome every obstacle. 6. You must love nothing better than Christ.