mmon, she needs the Person. The handicapped girl finds in Him
strength to triumph in spite of it, the privileged girl finds in Him
the inspiration for her work of extending her privileges, the girl who
is easily led to find in Him one who never leads astray, the girl who is
misunderstood can find in Him one who understands perfectly, the
indifferent girl who "means to" will find in Him a friend to encourage,
steady and compel, the girl who worships the twin idols can find in Him
a rescuer who shall set her free, the girl of high ideals will see in
Him the highest Ideal, the source of all the others, and the average
girl of the every day with her good points and bad, her successes and
failures, will find in Him a Friend who will make life seem wonderfully
worth while.

Don't let the multitude of things in which you are interested, the maze
of contradiction, the abstract facts, the trials and hardships of life,
the pleasures you love, or any other thing make you pass Him by. If you
gain everything else in life and miss Him you will fail to know what
life means. If you find Him you will find Love and that is the best
thing life can give.

XVIII

THE GLORY OF THE CLIMAX

So many miss it. It is more than duty but the path that leads to the
glory of it often begins with the plain, insistent, _ought_ of duty. It
is more than obedience, though without obedience none ever find it. How
many girls there are who are disappointed, dissatisfied, suffering
perhaps in body and soul because they never learned to obey! It is a
great thing to be able to hear "you ought" and then at whatever cost to
_obey_ it. But the climax is not found in these things great as they
are.

Faithful servants of a religion whose law is duty one finds among girls
and honors them. Good and faithful servants of a religion whose law is
obedience there are among girls. But neither of these have found the
glory of the climax. The climax is Love. The supreme command of the
Founder of true religion is--Thou shalt Love.

The religion of love is a girl's religion and she can never be
satisfied with any other. If those who have tried to teach her religion
have failed to show her this, then they have succeeded in giving her
only a set of laws to be obeyed or a list of things she should not do.
Love gives to Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not _power_ without which they
can accomplish little.

Love transforms hard, disagreeable, empty service and makes it glor