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'
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