r see the utter folly of
snobbishness and false pride. In some way she must be taught the cruelty
and meanness of gossip, the results of a sharp tongue and a critical
spirit. She must be shown the sin of ingratitude and the curse of
jealousy and envy. In fact the old ten commandments are needed by the
girlhood of today as truly as they were needed by that great army of
people in the days of the youth of a race, when their great law giver
and leader strove to save them from the results of their own ignorance
and newly acquired liberty.

Who teaches _thou shalt not_ to the girl of today? Indirectly, a great
many people. Directly, clearly, definitely so that she understands and
is impressed, very few. The Sunday-school in a half-hour a week attempts
to do it, but the Sunday-school reaches a very small part of the
girlhood of our land, and its work with those whom it has reached is
often ineffective. It is at present engaged in a serious effort to make
its teachings more effective and far reaching. The public school is not
directly teaching the _thou shalt not_, for teaching it does not mean
saying it, in the form of a command. It does much indirect moral
teaching, which is invaluable. It is experimenting with direct moral
teaching and many of the experiments have shown highly gratifying
results, which lead us to hope that the day is not far distant when
direct teaching of the common laws of moral living shall find a place
in every school. We shall have to find some new definition first, for
such words as success, wealth, honesty, courage, honor and the long list
in the vocabularies which the pupils in every school make for
themselves.

In reacting against the thundering negatives of the past, the church
has, in the decade or more that lies behind us, been teaching an
unbalanced religion. "Thou shalt," and "thou shalt not" must be taught
together if the best results are to be reached. In individual instances
so great success has been won by the teacher of religion that his method
is worth one's earnest study.

One morning there came into Sunday-school class a very ordinary looking
little girl of ten years. Her father was a truck driver, her mother had
been a domestic. There were four children in the home, the little girl
being next to the youngest. The parents had no relation to any church.
The two older children had turned out great disappointments to them and
when a neighbor invited the ten-year-old to go to Sunday-sch