44 &EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

while anger and other evil passions
are striving in your breast? Or how
could you urge them to obey their
parents in all things,—to submit with-
out amurmur to those whom God has
set over them,—while you are ready
to oppose your mother’s will, and
would, if you dared, act directly
against her commands? Above all,
how could you teach them to love
the Saviour, and to resist every sin-
ful desire for his sake, when your
own heart is so full of pride and
vanity, that you have not room for a
thought of the holy Jesus in your
mind? No, Edith, you must not go
to the Sunday school to-day. Re-
main here for the present, and think
over your sins, and pray that grace
may be given you to repent. And
when you go to the house of God,