ivine life, then think of things that are above. [Greek:
Ta ano phroneite], think heaven itself. And heaven lies around us in our
daily life--not in the cloister, in incense-breathing aisle, in
devotions that isolate us, and force a sentiment unreal, morbid, and
even false, but in the generous and breathing activities of our life.
Religion glorifies, because it idealizes, that very life we are each
called on to lead. Look, therefore, round in your various lives and
homes, and ask yourselves what is the ideal life for me here, in this
position, as school-girl, daughter, sister, friend, mistress, or in any
other capacity. Education ought to enable you to frame an ideal; it
ought to give you imagination, and sympathy, and intelligence, and
resource; and religion ought to give you the strong motive, the
endurance, the width of view, the nobleness of purpose, to make your
life a light and a blessing wherever you are.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 3: An Address given to St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews, on
Sunday, April 13, 1890.]

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Three Addresses to Girls at School, by
James Maurice Wilson

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THREE ADDRESSES TO GIRLS AT SCHOOL ***

***** This file should be named 29343.txt or 29343.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/3/4/29343/

Produced by Bryan Ness, Laura Ulibarri and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
book was produced from scanned images of public domain
material from the Google Print project.)

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation