EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER. 21

looked grave, and told Edith it would
give her more pleasure to see this
concern for the Sunday school, if
there were reason to hope that it
arose from love to the Saviour, and
a desire that others should be brought
to seek his mercy.

Now, though Edith was sometimes
rather giddy, she was not upon the
whole a careless child; and aunt
Mary’s words that evening sunk
deeply into her mind. She had often
: Been urged to make the care of her
‘soul the one thing needful, and her
pious mother had prayed for her and
with her, that she might have grace
to give her heart to God, and to de-
vote her youth and her whole life to
his service. But Edith knew that as
yet she had not done so; and her
conscience told her that aunt Mary