34 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

who died for you, and rose again.
2 Cor. v, 15.

The teacher of the alphabet class
was ill many weeks, during which »
time Edith went every Sunday to
supply her place at the school; and
the pleasure of seeing the children
improve under her care repaid her
for all her trouble. Still Edith was
not without her faults even at the
Sunday school. One of them has
been already noticed. She was of
a quick and hasty temper, and when
her little scholars were giddy and
heedless, she did not always reprove
them in a proper manner. Now, in
teaching the young, nothing is of
more importance than a good ex-
ample. It was of no use that Edith
talked to the children of the meek
and lowly Jesus, and said that they