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Title: The Girl and Her Religion

Author: Margaret Slattery

Release Date: August 13, 2005 [EBook #16520]

Language: English

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THE GIRL AND HER RELIGION

BY MARGARET SLATTERY

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY LUTHER H. CARY

_Fifth Printing_

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON

[Illustration: WHILE PACKING HER TRUNK SHE DREAMED OF COLLEGE.]

FOREWORD

TO THOSE WHO READ THIS BOOK

It is not a technical book, it does not attempt philosophy. It does not
contain the solution of all girl problems. It is not a great book, it is
simple and concrete. It is a record of some things about which the girls
I have known have compelled me to think. I have but one request to make
of those who read it--that they also _think_--not of the book, not of
the author, but of the _girls_--for _action_ is born of thought.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS
PAGE
THE GIRL
I THE RIGHTS OF A GIRL 3
II THE HANDICAPPED GIRL 9
III THE PRIVILEGED GIRL 19
IV THE GIRL WHO IS EASILY LED 30
V THE GIRL WHO IS MISUNDERSTOOD 41
VI THE INDIFFERENT GIRL 55
VII THE GIRL WHO WORSHIPS
THE TWIN IDOLS 68
VIII THE GIRL WHO DRIFTS 82
IX THE GIRL WITH HIGH IDEALS 96
X THE AVERAGE GIRL 107

HER RELIGION
XI THE GIRL AND THE UNIVERSE 117
XII IN THE HANDS OF A TRIAD 130
XIII THOU SHALT NOT 141
XIV THOU SHALT 152
XV A MATTER OF CULTIVATION 162
XVI A PLEA AND A PROMISE 183
XVII A PERSON NOT A FACT 195
XVIII THE GLORY OF THE CLIMAX 206

ILLUSTRATIONS

While packing her trunk she dreamed of
college _Frontispiece_