results, which lead us to hope that the day is not far distant when
direct teaching of the common laws of moral living shall find a place
in every school. We shall have to find some new definition first, for
such words as success, wealth, honesty, courage, honor and the long list
in the vocabularies which the pupils in every school make for
themselves.

In reacting against the thundering negatives of the past, the church
has, in the decade or more that lies behind us, been teaching an
unbalanced religion. "Thou shalt," and "thou shalt not" must be taught
together if the best results are to be reached. In individual instances
so great success has been won by the teacher of religion that his method
is worth one's earnest study.

One morning there came into Sunday-school class a very ordinary looking
little girl of ten years. Her father was a truck driver, her mother had
been a domestic. There were four children in the home, the little girl
being next to the youngest. The parents had no relation to any church.
The two older children had turned out great disappointments to them and
when a neighbor invited the ten-year-old to go to Sunday-school the
mother gave her consent, saying that perhaps the church could keep her
from following her brother and sister. It did.

In that home there was no moral instruction, no moral suasion. When the
children had told a lie directly to the mother they were punished
severely. When they told a lie to a teacher or neighbor the mother was
their defender and they escaped punishment. They heard their mother lie
to her husband, to her neighbors, to the rent collector and the grocer.
They learned not to fear a _lie_ but to fear being discovered in it.
They became clever liars and the little girl at ten was an adept. For