in a year, was wonderful. At the
end of the second year with that teacher the spirit of the young people
in that cosmopolitan church had entirely changed. Those girls had
wrought the change because they had themselves been transformed. They
had been expressing, day after day, in positive action the things they
learned, and the impressions which before had slumbered in the mind
burst into life through the daily deed. They studied Christ's rules for
living, they traced the results of obedience to those rules in the lives
of those who truly followed Him and _they_ tried to _do_ in their own
every day lives, until _doing_ brought _power_ to do and character was
being made.

In the religion of every girl there must be the positive side; whether
she works in a factory or attends a fashionable boarding school her
character will be made and her religious life formed through the
impressions which constantly find expression in words and actions.

A girl's religion, especially in the early teens, must be active not
passive. She must be made to feel--_and be given the right outlet for
the feelings aroused within_ her, to dream--_and be helped to find a way
to work out her dreams_. She must be given knowledge and _be shown the
way in which to use it._

It is in this way that the girl, every girl, may hope to find a sane and
natural religion which shall be a real help in the real world where she
must live. Christ was a doer of deeds. The gospel record of His life has
somewhat to say of the things He did _not_ do but its pages are filled
with the things that He did. Lame, blind, lepers, insane, poor, lonely
and sorrowful as well as "sinners," His friends and His disciples bear
witness to the things that He _did_. Christianity is a religion of deeds
and whether it be through a factory-club, a neighborhood house, Camp
Fire Girls, Christian Associations, the summer camp, girls' conferences,
the Sunday-school or the home, the girl must be impressed with the fact
that religion and life go hand in hand and must be shown the way to
give that impression opportunity to express itself, until repeated
expression shall have marked out the trend of _character_.

If the girl herself is reading this chapter she will realize that while
in a girl's religion there must of necessity be the simple definite
"thou shalt not," the most important part of that religion is Thou
Shalt. The girl herself should be so busy doing the things that ought to
be do