5. A careful listening to the conversation of children, and entering into conversation with them whenever practicable.
6. Earnestly seeking an interest in the things which are of interest to the pupil.—It will furnish a common ground of meeting in the class on Sunday. Community of interest will result.
7. Daily seeking contact with the pupil, either personal or by some means which will recall the teacher to the pupil’s mind.—If the teacher is daily present with the pupil there is hope that the teacher’s influence and teachings will be also.
8. Daily endeavoring by all means in the teacher’s power to render the pupil’s daily life pleasanter.
III. But how can all these things be accomplished?
1. By a regular attendance on the weekly teachers’ meeting. That is an essential part of a teacher’s week-day work.
2. By systematic visiting of pupils in their homes. This will insure an acquaintance which could in no other way be obtained.
3. By cultivating the reading habit in the pupil. How? By giving some good weekly paper or magazine which you have finished; by loaning good books; by interesting the family in such organizations as the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
4. By inviting pupils to entertainments, to the teacher’s home in winter, and to the woods and fields in summer.
5. By establishing little class Normal classes, and teaching some of the many interesting things parallel to the general work of the Sunday-school.