The Girl and Her Religion

l does not want

eople will single her out and say, "That is Charlotte Gray; she is the prettiest girl in town," or "That is Charlotte Gray; she has a most wonderful voice," or "She is the most popular girl in t

in her, always the possibility that she may bless the world by new ministries, enrich it by the di

different, she spends too much time following the dictates of fashion and too much strength endeavoring to have a good time, she means to do thing

or what the average girl is, that society is. Society cannot be more gen

, spend their evenings in the two dance halls and the cheap picture shows. While still young girls they marry men who drink and gamble, start

ked and criminal inmates. But neither the girl with the highest ideals, nor the girl with the lowest, can stamp that town; neither th

in "The Center," a house dedicated by one of the churches to the young people of the town for their enjoyment, in the one excellent moving picture establishment. They have a debating society, a dramati

e are some immoral and degenerate girls in that town but they do not stamp it. It is the average girl w

ter of the average girl. The second town has never had a saloon, the owners of its factories and business houses live in the town and they have the keen vision which sees the value of good

athlete, interested in everything athletic, that fact would determine the general character of the college. If the average girl leaves her college with broadened sympathies, good scholarship, intense interest in the affairs of the day, real joy in living and helping; these things determine the

o all that a church member should do, nor by the few who utterly fail to fulfil the mi

character. The average girl in the employ of any concern dete

finer in character, broader in thought, more sound in body, mind and spirit, she raises society with her; as she loses in

is she in the ideal? I have asked scores of girls the questio

She refuses to be extreme in style or to make herself ridiculous or conspicuous. She likes fun, she enjoys amusements and good times. She will not indulge in things of which her parents heartily disapprove or which unfit her for work or study, and which her own conscience tells her are doubtful. She loves friends and companions and has as many as she can. She chooses carefully her fri

ne with hope. The fact that so many men and women who but a few years ago were not concerned with either the needs or rights of a girl are bending every energy to the task of setting her free from the things that

l to the average girl and those who love her to summon a

ing out of all problems of right, justice and public welfare and knowing that God must have had great fai

, the talented, the beautiful; but without the average girl

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