I like Uncle Hiram's suggestion very much." "But the humiliation of soliciting scholars," said the mother.
"To do right is not humiliating," quickly replied Edith.
"It is easy to say this, my child; but can you go to Mrs.Lionel, for instance, with whose family we were so intimate, and solicit her to send Emma and Cordelia to the school you propose to open, without a smarting sense of humiliation?
I am sure you cannot." Edith communed with her own thoughts for some moments, and then answered-- "If I gave way to false pride, mother, this might be so; but I must overcome what is false and evil.

This is as necessary for my happiness as the external good we seek--nay, far more so.

Too many who have moved in the circle where we have been moving for years strangely enough connect an idea of degradation with the office of teaching children.
But is there on the earth a higher or more important use than instructing the mind and training the heart of young immortals?
It has been beautifully and truly said, that 'Earth is the nursery of Heaven.' The teacher, then, is a worker in God's own garden.

Is it not so, mother ?" "You think wisely, my child.

God grant that your true thoughts may sustain you in the trials to come!" replied Mrs.Darlington.
The door-bell rang as the family were rising from the tea-table.