22 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

was thinking of this when she said
that the time for her to become a
Sunday-school teacher must depend
upon other matters besides her age.
Edith felt sorry that she did not love
her Saviour more, and she wished
that she could be a better child, and
keep from sin. When she knelt down |
to pray that night, this desire was
still in her heart, and she thought
more of the meaning of the words
she had been taught to use than she
had ever done before. She hoped
that God would hear her prayer, for
Christ’s sake; that her sins might
be blotted out, and her evil nature
changed, and a love for holy things
be put into her mind.

Reader, you also have been taught
to ask these blessings in the name of
Christ. Is it the desire of your heart