God." Another boy: "The second man is the Lord from heaven." Another boy: "Jesus said, I came from heaven, not to do my own will." Another: "For by him were all things created that are in heaven, or that are in earth, visible and invisible."-Where did Christ first appear? At Bethlehem.-In what form? He was born of the Virgin Mary; he came as a child.-Was it prophesied that he should do this? 66 Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son," &c. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given," &c.—What did Christ come into the world to do? To save the world.-Give me some passages to prove this? "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son." Another boy: "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." Another boy: "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, to be the propitiation for our sins." Another boy: "All we like sheep have gone astray, and turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."-Who are sinners? All people. Prove this? "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; there is none righteous, no, not one." Why was it necessary that Christ should come into the world for the salvation of sinners? Because, if he had not died, all mankind must have been lost.-What did Jesus Christ do, then, to save mankind? Died on the cross."-How does his dying on the cross save them? Because he died in their stead.-Prove this from scripture? "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."But had God nothing to do with man's salvation? "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." Another boy: "He made him to be sin for us that knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God."-&c. &c.

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GRAMMAR.

MODE OF EXAMINATION.

"The sacrifices of virtue will not only be rewarded hereafter, but recompensed even in this life."Sentence from Lennie's Grammar.

Teacher. Paraphrase this sentence? Pupil. We shall be recompensed both in this world, and in that which is to come, for any losses which we may suffer on account of good conduct.-What kind of sentence is it? It is ompound, declarative, figurative.-What part of speech is the? Definite article.-Why? Because it refers to a definite thing.-What part of speech is sacrifices? Noun, common; neuter gender; plural number; third person; nominative case to the verbs rewarded and recompensed.-In what case is virtue? Possessive. Why? According to note under 7th rule: "We sometimes use of instead of the possessive case." Sacrifices of virtue, instead of virtue's sacrifices.-What case does of usually govern? The objective. Rule 3rd: prepositions govern the objective case.-Which is the first verb in the sentence? Will be rewarded.-Describe it? Regular verb, passive; indicative mood; future tense; third person, agreeing with its nominative, sacrifices.-Rule? 1st. A verb must agree with its nominative in number and person.-What are not and only? Adverbs.-Rule for placing them

thus ? "23rd. Adverbs are for the most part placed before adjectives, after verbs active or neuter, and frequently between the auxiliary and the verb."-How are these placed? Between the auxiliary and the verb.-Is there any other adverb in the sentence? Yes: hereafter and even.-What kinds are they? Of time and of manner.-What part of speech is but? Disjunctive conjunction.-Why? Because it places the two parts of the sentence in opposition. -What is the meaning of the word conjunction? The act of joining. What is it derived from? Con, with or together, and junctus, joined.-What is implied by dis? Severing.What are those conjunctions called which simply connect? Copulative conjunctions.-In what mood and tense is recompensed? Indicative mood and future tense.-Why? Because according to the 5th rule, conjunctions couple the same moods and tenses of verbs.-Which is the connecting conjunction? But.-What is here understood? The auxiliaries will be.-In what case is life? Objective.-Why? Because governed by the preposition in, according to 3rd rule.Decline life? Noun; singular, life; plural lives, &c. What is this? Demonstrative adjective pronoun.-How many kinds of pronouns are there? Three.-Name them? sonal, relative, and adjective.-How many kinds of adjective pronouns? Four.-Name them? Possessive, distributive, demonstrative, and indefinite.-Name other demonstrative adjective pronouns ? That, these, those.-Why did you say that this sentence is compound? Because it is composed of two sentences united by the conjunction, but.-Why did you call it a declarative sentence?-Because it simply makes an assertion. What do you mean by saying it is figurative? Because virtue is spoken of as a person. How is that shown? By its being said to make sacrifices.-What figure of speech is this? Personification, or prosopopeia. Give me some other instances of personification? "The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back." "The little hills rejoice on every side; they shout for joy; they also sing."-Mention some

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other figures of speech? Simile, metaphor, climax, metonymy, hyperbole, antithesis, irony, paralepsis. - Give an instance of irony? "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth," &c.-Another? Elijah to the worshippers of Baal.—What is climax ? The heightening of all the circumstances of an object or action which we wish to place in a strong light.— Give me an instance? "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword?"-What is a metonymy? A figure by which we put the effect for the cause, or the cause for the effect.-Give me an instance? "If mischief befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring down my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave."-Where is the metonymy here? Grey hairs for old age.-Another instance? "God shall enlarge Japheth, and shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant."-Another?" For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day."-Another? "I am the resurrection and the life."-What is a paralepsis? A figure by which the speaker pretends to conceal what he is really declaring and strongly enforcing.—An instance? "If he hath wronged thee, or oweth aught, put that on my own account: I, Paul, have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it, albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides."-What is antithesis? A figure by which contrary objects are contrasted, to make them show one another to advantage.-Instance? Solomon contrasts the timidity of the wicked with the courage of the righteous, when he says, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion."-Another? "A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother," &c.

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QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION,

EITHER ORALLY OR BY MEANS OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS.

THE OFFICE

1. What is the popular opinion regarding teaching, and wherein is it defective?

2. Mention those circumstances and states of mind under which a teacher must be miserable?

3. State how he may best insure happiness?

4. Show the connexion which subsists between happiness in a school and the cultivation of benevolent sentiments? 5. Is a person properly qualified to become a teacher by the acquisition of science merely?

6. Describe the various kinds of power which may be exercised in a school, with their relative advantages and disadvantages?

7. Mention some of the personal inconveniences which arise from hasty and partial preparation for the work of teaching?

8. What influence may a schoolmaster be expected to exercise over the morals and manners of a community, and in what respect does his influence agree with, and differ from, that of the minister of the gospel?

9. What is the best way of acting in a school, when perplexed by a difficult question from a scholar? and why?