12 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

‘for other matters besides your age
must be taken imto account. You
have many things to learn, my dear
Edith, before you can become a use-
ful Sunday-school teacher.”

“How can that be, dear aunt?”
said Edith, looking up into aunt Ma-
ry’s face. ‘I know how to read and
spell, and I could explain the mean-
ing of such words as the poor child-
ren might not be able to understand.
And I would tell them to pray to God, |
and to keep holy the sabbath day;
and never to tell a falsehood, nor to
steal, nor to do anything that would
be asim. I dare say they would not
mind what I said to them, if I tried to
teach them now, while I am such a
child; but when I am grown older
and taller, perhaps they may.”

‘So, then,” said aunt Mary, kindly,