the Exile, are the foundation on which Jesus built. His life exemplified their principles and his teaching fulfilled them; neither his life nor his teachings can be thoroughly understood and carried out as a present program of Christianity if one is ignorant of the teachings of either the prophets or Jesus.

Service. One of the foundation principles of the Christian program is that persons have the value of permanence, that is, of immortality. To some minds the intellectual certainty of personal immortality can never come until service is given to another soul that would lose most of its meaning unless that soul had the value of permanence. The one who is troubled about the "historicity" of the gospel accounts of Jesus's works and his resurrection, will, if she commits herself unreservedly to the program of Christianity, find herself in places where only the present directing force of a living personality is adequate to the situation. The only avenue of conviction for some truths is through experience in a project where only these truths will work. The very fact that we cannot understand some of the great problems of life is proof that they are part of something infinitely permanent. We cannot understand any process till it is complete, and our mystification in these great problems shows that we are still in the middle of them.

SUMMARY

With the undimmed eagerness and enthusiasm of girlhood, yet with the vision and steadfastness of womanhood, these years of lengthened adolescence, the gift of our advanced civilization to young women, are

years of unmatched power and promise. It is the time for the "religious revaluation of values" to become the settled habit of life. Knowledge is essential for intelligent valuation; affection makes the conviction of the supreme worth of persons dynamic; and both determine the direction of the will to efficient and organized service. Through worship and service the self and society grow together into a richer realization of the possi bility of each in the plan of a God who is Father of a society in which all men form one family. The problems which burden heart and mind are seen to be due to living and thinking in the middle of an uncompleted project which demands our help. Solutions are seen to be possible only through sharing the good will and the activity of God; then enough of his purpose can be comprehended to guide further activity.

"What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

"The mass of people," says Professor Coe, "do not understand what is happening until it has happened. Poets express it, philosophers interpret it, and prophets direct it." Later adolescence is the period of independent religious thinking. The growing new personality looks out on the happening with fresh insight and grasps it as a new whole. While the mass of our adolescent girls will not understand what is happening until

it has happened, they can be helped to do the will of God that they may, ultimately, know. And nowhere but among the young women, as well as the young men, now in the tutelage of us, their older friends, are the poets who will express the infinite meaning of the life of the coming generation, the philosophers who shall interpret it, and the prophets who shall direct it.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE following titles have been selected from among many times their number, as the most helpful now available in their respective fields. Where brief, popular books exist, they have been chosen and the more technical, scientific volumes omitted. In some cases the difficult works alone are trustworthy, and the reader is referred to them with due notice as to their technicality. For the benefit of the large number of workers with girls who have not access to a large library the names of publishers have in most cases been added. Prices are at present undergoing such rapid change that it seemed inexpedient to attempt to indicate them. A letter of inquiry to any of the publishers will bring prompt information.

Those books which should be first purchased for a library by any group of parents, teachers, or social workers with girls, have been indicated by a preceding the title. Others are quite as indispensable for those working in particular fields as are these for the general subject, and this fact will be noted in the comment appended.

I. SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND HISTORICAL FACTORS

1. ADDAMS, JANE. *The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. Macmillan.

2.

An interpretation of the eternal elements in current life, by a seer. Indispensable for a large vision of present-day girl prob

lems.

*A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil.

Macmillan.

"All that the average reader needs to know about the vice situation.' A relentless, clear-eyed, but hopeful pointing out of the currents which draw girls into destruction, and of the individual's responsibility for community action that shall assure safety.

3. BUTLER, ELIZABETH.

Russell Sage.

Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores.

Facts indispensable to all who work with girls employed in stores.

4. COOLIDGE, MARY ROBERTS. Holt & Co.

Why Women Are So. Henry

An historical-social study of American girls and women, especially in the nineteenth century, separating sex-characteristics from the effect of environment. Valuable in calling attention to possible causes of present situations conditioning the development of girls.

5. EDWARDS, RICHARD HENRY.

sociation Press, 1915.

*Popular Amusements.

As

The social aspect of the whole recreational problem. Should be pondered by every friend of girls. Of special interest are chapters I: II (pp. 50-56); III (pp. 70-81, public dance halls); V (pp. 105-109, amusement parks); VI (pp. 121-122, excursions and outings); VII (pp. 133-144, summarizing the social morality of the whole problem). Exhaustive and well-classified bibliography with each chapter.

6. FOSTER, W. T. (editor). *The Social Emergency. Houghton Mifflin, 1914.

Chapters on various phases of social and personal hygiene and their relation to economic, recreational, educational, moral, and religious problems by strong writers. Positive emphasis on central value of the family and its ideals, and a morality that is militant. "No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic." The teaching phases are well handled. The chapter on Girls is the least strong, because of what it does not say; all the chapters have much help for workers with girls.

7. MACLEAN, ANNIE MARION. Wage Earning Women. Macmillan.

The standard sociological study of the subject.

8. RICHARDSON, DOROTHY. The Long Day.

An autobiography of an intelligent girl thrown alone into the conditions of employment and living met by the inarticulate thousands in a great city. One of the earlier books to arouse action to remedy some of the conditions described; still too largely true.

9. SALEEBY. Woman and Womanhood.

A sane and constructive treatment of present social and educational problems involved in the "feminist movement.' Chapters on girl life help to understand special problems in their relation to the whole.

10. TARBELL, IDA.

millan.

The Business of Being a Woman. Mac

Sincere and forceful statement of high ideals, of dangers which threaten them, and of socially effective methods of achieving them.

11. THOMAS, W. I. Sex and Society. Univ. Chicago Press, 1907.

A study of sex as a factor in social evolution. Keen discussion of mental differences in sexes and races as lack of opportunity and specific practice.