EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER. 13

“vou think that you have all the
knowledge which is necessary for a
Sunday-school teacher ?”

Edith did not know how to answer,
for there was something in aunt Ma-
ry’s looks which seemed to say that
the little girl was wrong. “ Please to
tell me, aunt,” she said at last, “some
of the things which I must learn be-
fore I can be a teacher in the school.”

“T will with pleasure instruct you
as far as I can, my dear child,” said
aunt Mary, “and Iwill pray that God
himself may teach you by his Holy
Spirit, and write upon your heart the
words of eternal life. There is not
time to say more at present, for we
are nearly at the school; but I hope
to have some talk with you upon the
subject another day.”

‘Were you very young, aunt Mary,”