Make every particular plain to their understanding. Fix it in their memory. Write it on their heart. In order to this, there must be _line upon line, precept upon precept_. I remember to have heard my father asking my mother, “How could you have the patience, to tell that blockhead the same thing, twenty times over?” She answered, “Why, if I had told him but nineteen times, I should have lost all my labour.” What patience indeed, what love, what knowledge is requisite for this? _Q._ 34. In what method should we instruct them? _A._ Read, explain, inforce, 1. The rules of the society: 2. Instructions for children: 3. The fourth volume of sermons: 4. _Philip Henry_’s method of family prayer. Over and above: where there are ten children in a society, spend at least an hour with them twice a week. And do this, not in a dull, dry, formal manner, but in earnest, with your might. “But I have no gift for this.” Gift or no gift, you are to do it, else you are not called to be a Methodist-preacher. Do it as you can, till you can do it as you would. Pray earnestly for the gift, and use the means for it; particularly studying the childrens tracts. _Q._ 35. Why are not _we_ more holy? Why do not _we_ live in eternity? Walk with God all the day long? Why are we not all devoted to God? Breathing the whole spirit of _missionaries_? _A._ Because we are enthusiasts: looking for the end, without using the means. To touch only upon two or three instances. Do _you_ rise at four? Or even at five, when you do not preach? Do you fast once a week? Once a month? Do you know the obligation, or benefit of it? Do you recommend the five o’clock hour for private-prayer? Do you observe it? Do not you find, that _any time_ is _no time_? O let us all _stir up the gift of God that is in us_! Let us no more _sleep, as do others_: But whatsoever our _hand findeth to do_, let us _do it with our might_! _Q._ 36. Who is the _assistant_? _A._ That preacher in each circuit, who is appointed from time to time to take charge of the societies, and the other preachers therein. _Q._ 37. How should an assistant be qualified for this charge? _A._ By walking closely with God, and having his work greatly at heart; by understanding and loving discipline, ours in particular; and by loving the church of _England_, and resolving not to separate from it. _Q._ 38. What is the business of an assistant?