28 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

he will give his Holy Spirit to them
that ask him.

During the rest of the week Edith
thought much of the school, and had
a great desire to know whether aunt
Mary meant to take her again, to
supply the place of the teacher, who
was still very ill, and was not likely,
it was said, to get better for some
time to come. But she did not like
to ask if she might go, because she
now began to think more humbly of
herself, and had also a higher sense
of the duties that were required from
a Sunday-school teacher. Aunt Mary
said not a word until Saturday night,
just as her niece was going to bed.
Then, when Edith went to kiss her
in her turn, as she was sitting with
grandpapa and Mrs. Austen, she took
hold of her hand, and said to her with