pass on. The simple deed by which Arline expressed in the positive
terms of action what she had been thinking seemed to make a definite
change in her character and about three months from the time she had
made her gift, in a simple and natural way she came into the church. As
the girls were given more and more definite opportunity to express
themselves in thoughtful acts and kindly words, the teacher found
sympathetic, interested listeners to the lessons she tried to make
inspiring and practical in their appeal, and one by one the girls
decided for themselves to come into the church and help it do its work
in the world. The definite stand of such a group of interesting girls,
easily leaders in school and the social life, made a decided difference
in the standards of the young people of that community. The community as
a whole, and the parents of the girls especially, owe to that teacher a
very real debt for her part in the character building of those girls,
who before they came in contact with her had had only vague and hazy
ideas of a girl's duties and privileges. She furnished them with
material for thought and with opportunity for translating that thought
into action which is rapidly determining their characters.

A class of girls in another community made up of "freshmen" and
"sophomores" in the high school who were accused by other girls, and
with reason, of being "snobbish," "proud," and of forming "cliques," had
been studying with a most interesting teacher a course on Christian life
and conduct. They had been urged to show in their own lives, in school,
in their social relations, the characteristics they learned each Sunday
should belong, not only to every Christian but to every girl. Then their
teacher began to make the suggestions definite, getting as many as she
could from the girls themselves. They were asked to increase the
membership of their club, attend and take part in young peoples' socials
from which their "set" had held aloof, join in the work of the Girls'