aloof, join in the work of the Girls’ Guild, to which they had given a little money but nothing else.  These things were hard for some of them.  At first they were not able to do them naturally and easily and they found the friendship and confidence of the other girls hard to gain.  But they had come to the conclusion in class that these things were right and the enthusiasm and approval of their teacher over the attempts they were making spurred them on.  Then they began to make discoveries.  They found out what interesting girls there were outside their “set.”  They found they had exaggerated their own importance.  They began to enjoy the good times of the young people in the church societies and to want a real part in them.  The change in the spirit and life of that class, even in a year, was wonderful.  At the end of the second year with that teacher the spirit of the young people in that cosmopolitan church had entirely changed.  Those girls had wrought the change because they had themselves been transformed.  They had been expressing, day after day, in positive action the things they learned, and the impressions which before had slumbered in the mind burst into life through the daily deed.  They studied Christ’s rules for living, they traced the results of obedience to those rules in the lives of those who truly followed Him and they tried to do in their own every day lives, until doing brought power to do and character was being made.

In the religion of every girl there must be the positive side; whether she works in a factory or attends a fashionable boarding school her character will be made and her religious life formed through the impressions which constantly find expression in words and actions.

A girl’s religion, especially in the early teens, must be active not passive.  She must be made to feel—­and be given the right outlet for the feelings aroused within her, to dream—­and be helped to find a way to work out her dreams.  She must be given knowledge and be shown the way in which to use it.

It is in this way that the girl, every girl, may hope to find a sane and natural religion which shall be a real help in the real world where she must live.  Christ was a doer of deeds.  The gospel record of His life has somewhat to say of the things He did not do but its pages are filled with the things that He did.  Lame, blind, lepers, insane, poor, lonely and sorrowful as well as “sinners,” His friends and His disciples bear witness to the things that He did.  Christianity is a religion of deeds and whether it be through a factory-club, a neighborhood house, Camp Fire Girls, Christian Associations, the summer camp, girls’ conferences, the Sunday-school or the home, the girl must be impressed with the fact that religion and life go hand in hand and must be shown the way to give that impression opportunity to express itself, until repeated expression shall have marked out the trend of character.