32 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

willing to receive, and hoped to bear
in mind. Some change had indeed
begun in her heart. She was learn-
ing to love prayer, and to find plea-
sure in trying to keep the commands
of God; and as we cannot do this of
ourselves, for our hearts are by na-
ture so very sinful that we only love
the way of evil, so Edith’s pious
friends had reason to hope that Jesus
himself was leading her by his Spirit
into his own happy fold.

Young reader, stop here to ask
yourself whether this change has
taken place in you. You also are
by nature sinful and far from God.
How is it with you now? Do-you
love the world, and the things of the
world, better than you love the Sa-
viour, and the things of heaven? If
so, you have not yet entered the nar-