"No, my love. I mean that all do not think alike; what some people think to be very wrong, others consider there is no harm in; so that, if we are guided only by a desire to please our fellow creatures, we may sometimes go very wrong; whereas, if we strive to do only those things which please God, and ask him to help us, we shall be quite sure of going right."

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"I think I understand what you mean, aunt Ellen; you mean that if anybody I loved very much were to wish me to do things which I knew displeased God, and I did not do them, I should be quite certain that I was right and they were wrong."

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Exactly; but I hope, dear Margaret, that you will never be placed in such a case." "Oh, no!" said Margaret, as if she thought such a thing quite impossible. "" I

was only supposing, you know.

Do you

think, aunt Ellen," she continued, "that mamma will teach Ada and me the same as you have done?"

"I think it most likely that

you

will

have a governess,” replied her aunt;

66 but, of course, you will be as obedient to her, Margaret, and attend to all she says, as you would to me or your mamma.”

"Yes," said Margaret; "but I hope she will be very kind, and teach me as you have done, and Ada. I wonder if Ada likes learning as much as I do."

"If she does not, you must try to like it better," said Mrs. Shirley. "She is nearly two years younger than you are, remember, and therefore you must set her a good example, not only in learning, but in other things."

"In other things, aunt Ellen?" said Margaret, inquiringly.

"Yes, you must be kind, and gentle, and forgiving towards her, making allowances for her faults, if you expect her to make allowance for yours."

"Do you think Ada has faults, then, aunt?" said Margaret.

"She would be a very wonderful child if she had not,” replied her aunt. "Do not recollect those verses in the Bible which

you

say, There is none righteous, no, not one '—'All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God '? ”*

"Yes, I recollect that," said Margaret; "but I hope Ada is not ill-natured.”

"I certainly should think that there is little reason to fear that, at least, from her appearance, Margaret; but, of course, you must expect to have sometimes to give way to her; you cannot expect to have things run on so smoothly when there is the will of another to consult, as when you can follow your own inclination without any one to contradict you."

"I do not think I shall mind giving up to Ada, if she will give up to me sometimes in return," said Margaret.

"Then you must, as I said before, being the elder, set her the example, striving yourself to follow Him, who left us an example that we should follow his steps,' and remembering the words of the apostle, when he says, Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as *Rom. iii, 10, 23.

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