prays to God?  A. Yes, every day.  Q. What does he pray for?  A. That God would be pleased to make him a wise and good man, so that he may make all his people happy.  Q. What do the Scriptures say about the king?  A. They say that we are to fear God and honour the king.  Q. Who was the wisest king?  A. King Solomon.  Q. How did he become the wisest king?  A. He asked God to give him wisdom to govern his kingdom well; and God granted his request.  Q. Will God give our king wisdom?  A. Yes, he will give him what is best for him.  It says in the Bible, if any man lack wisdom let him ask of God, for he giveth all men liberally, and upbraideth not.  Q. What is the best book to learn wisdom from?  A. The Bible.  Q. Is the queen mentioned in the Bible?  A. Yes; it is said queens shall be thy nursing mothers.  Q. Who came to Solomon besides the two women?  A. The queen of Sheba, she came to ask him questions.  Q. When he answered her questions what happened?  A. The queen was so much delighted with his wisdom, that she gave him a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in abundance.  Q. How much is one talent of gold worth?  A. Five thousand, four hundred, and seventy-five sovereigns.  Q. Did she give him anything more?  A. Yes, she gave him precious stones.  Q. What are precious stones?  A. Diamonds, jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprasus, jacinth, amethyst.  Q. Did king Solomon give the queen of Sheba anything?  A. Yes, he gave her whatsoever she desired, besides that which she brought with her.  Q. Where did she go?  A. She went away to her own land.  Q. What part of the Bible is this?  A. The ninth chapter of the second book of Chronicles, Master.  The queen is mentioned in other places in the Bible, and another day I will tell in what parts.

[Footnote A:  This lesson was written in the life time of our late sovereign.  It can easily be applied by the judicious teacher, and made to bear upon present circumstances, and I earnestly hope that her present gracious Majesty may become patroness of infant education.  Not infant education travestied, but the thing itself.]

THE NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST.

The picture being suspended as the others, and a whole class being in the class-room, put the pointer into one of the children’s hands, and desire the child to find out the Nativity of Jesus Christ.  The other children will be on the tip-toe of expectation, to see whether the child makes a mistake; for, should this be the case, they know that one of them will have the same privilege of trying to find it; should the child happen to touch the wrong picture, the teacher will have at least a dozen applicants, saying, “Please, sir, may I?  Please, sir, may I?” The teacher having selected the child to make the next trial, say one of the youngest of the applicants, the child walks round the room with the pointer, and puts it on the right picture; which will be always known by