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