k of an instructor attempting to make
the connection through the study of the Bible. She knew that telling a
girl to read her Bible is not helping or training her to do it. These
girls had purchased ten and twenty cent Testaments which could be cut,
and small loose-leaf note books, on the covers of which were pasted one
of the pictures of Christ. The girls had spent two weeks clipping from
the Testaments and pasting in their note books "the things Jesus said
about himself and the words God spoke concerning Him." Two weeks more
were spent clipping the "things others said about Him"--Peter, Paul,
John, the Pharisees. The next work was to clip what Jesus said about
forgiveness, about one's duty to neighbors, treatment of one's enemies,
the way to be happy. Later they were to use both Old and New Testaments,
cutting out the verses which they thought would be of comfort to any
one in sorrow, to one who had greatly sinned, and verses which they
considered good advice to young people. That instructor was making a
sane, practical attempt to feed the souls of those girls by helping them
search out for themselves what the Bible has to say on topics of real
interest.

I saw a note book recently prepared by a fifteen-year-old girl which I
believe most valuable because of the things about which it has lead her
to think. She had taken as the subject of her book, "The Good Shepherd."
On the cover was a picture with that title; in the inside a fine
collection of pictures representing Jesus as the Good Shepherd,
clippings regarding oriental shepherd life, "The Shepherd Psalm," the
Parable of the Lost Sheep and the words of hymns like "The Ninety and
Nine" and poems like "That Li'l Black Sheep."

One cannot soon forget that book with its decorated margins, its neat
mounting of cards and clippings and its beautiful pictures. The effect
of the book upon the girl who made it, the teachers said was very
apparent. Another book was entitled "Come Unto Me," and the pictures,
verses and hymns were most impressive. When each girl has exchanged
books with each member of the class, they are to be sent to a rescue
home for girls.

The Bible messages to mankind brought by such simple methods into direct
contact with a girl in her early teens is one means of nourishing her
soul. If it is true that the best in poetry, art, literature and
oratory, as well as the greatest uplift to character, finds its source
in that Book the girl should come into rea