Everybody may not
respond now--but how about _you_, the girl herself?
XIII
THOU SHALT NOT
In our effort to get away from the harsh negative teaching of the past
which made young people feel that life meant "don't," we have made the
mistake of failing to teach with power the fact that there are things to
which God's law and man's law say _thou shall not_. "I did not know it
would do any harm," is oftentimes a truthful statement and the girl has
the right to be carefully, wisely and sanely taught the things to which
she must say no. A girl's religion must have not only the _constraining_
power which sends her out to do the kindly deed, say the word of comfort
and cheer, give of her time and her talent to help make life easier for
those who find it hard, but it must have the restraining power which
shall keep her from self-indulgence and sin.
Whenever the _thou shalt not_ side of religion is mentioned the girls
themselves and those responsible for their training immediately think
of the question of amusements, which is after all only a part of the
greater question of how much leisure a girl should have and what she
should do with it. Preachers, teachers and Christians generally, differ
so widely on the matter of disputed amusement questions that _thou shalt
not_ loses its force.
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