g consequences.

_The greatest need in the world today is the need of spirituality among
women, for they are the teachers of the young._

As illustrating the frightful harm that may result from such a lack of
spirituality in a woman, I quote from my diary the case of a great
English lady whom I met while I was nursing in the battle region back of
Verdun. She had come from London to be near her son, a magnificent
soldier, the handsomest Englishman I have ever seen, who had been
wounded in the Mesopotamian campaign and was now here for his
convalescence.

"Lady Maude H---- G---- is a fascinating woman," I wrote. "She must have
been a great beauty in her day, and she seems to be a figure in the
rich, smart London set. She speaks quite casually of being invited to
this or that palace for a chat and a cup of tea with one of the
princesses or even with the Queen. During hours that she spent at the
hospital she talked to me frankly and charmingly about many things
connected with her boy and his future. She is worried lest some
designing woman get him in her power, and one day she told me that she
has arranged matters for Leonard so that he will be spared certain
perils of this kind that might surround him in London. This excellent
and brilliant mother has solved her son's problem--the sex problem--in
the following extraordinary way, which proves, so she seems to think,
her love and wisdom. She has arranged matters--goodness knows how--so
that Leonard will be on excellent terms with two beautiful young matrons
in her set and in this way he will not be vamped off by any unscrupulous
chorus girl. These two beauties are to serve for the delectation of this
young warrior until he can make a suitable marriage. What a commentary
upon the morals and standards of high society!"

How can one explain such incredible baseness?

This woman is not an ignoble person. On the contrary she is kind and
generous, full of the best intentions. She has simply reached a point in
her selfish round of vanity and pleasure-seeking where she can no longer
distinguish between right and wrong. Her soul is withered, starved,
because it has been deprived of God's love and God's truth; yet the
deterioration came gradually, no doubt, beginning with petty lies and
compromises and evasions of responsibility. If _she_ had any past
transgression on her conscience it is certain she never told her husband
about it.

It is a rule among women (with few exception