24 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

CHAPTER III.

SERIOUS THOUGHTS AND GOOD DESIRES.

E\DITH’s serious thoughts did not
leave her, as is often the case with
the young, who are too willing to let
vain and triflme thmgs draw away
their minds from God. The very
next day, as she was walking with
aunt Mary, havmg been to visit a
scholar who was ill, she began to
express her fears that she should
never be fit for a Sunday-school
teacher, for she had found out, she
said, that much more was needed
than a knowledge of reading and
spelling. Aunt Mary heard her with
some surprise, as it was only the day
before that Edith had been talking ©
to her in quite a different manner;
but the little girl soon told her what