charging the atmosphere with the spirit of uplift. The church _must_
furnish leadership. It _must_ guide or lose its youth. It must advise
with practical, possible advice.

Perhaps the day will come when groups of churches will unite in forming
social centers and the business men of those churches shall _seriously_
consider the problem of where girls shall meet their young men friends
and how they shall spend their evenings together. Perhaps some day the
men of the church will select in their community a good, clean moving
picture house, and there are some, where they can advise their young
people to go, helping them thus to escape the snare of those who cater
to evil.

Those most deeply interested in a girl's religion, have come to see its
relation to every other phase of her life, and to know that one may not
snatch amusements from the lives of young people, giving nothing in
return.

Just what is wisest to give in return is our great problem. The church
_must_ meet it and it needs help.

The time is ripe and more than ripe for the direct appeal to the
home. It should be made through every avenue and in every language.
It should be made through every newspaper and printed in every
tongue--"_Responsibility_ belongs to the home." All sorts of homes
must help in making the atmosphere in which a young girl must live,
_safe_, free from poisons that mean suffering and in the long run
death to the best things.

I happened one day in a smoke laden city upon a group of women in one of