Perhaps some day the
men of the church will select in their community a good, clean moving
picture house, and there are some, where they can advise their young
people to go, helping them thus to escape the snare of those who cater
to evil.
Those most deeply interested in a girl's religion, have come to see its
relation to every other phase of her life, and to know that one may not
snatch amusements from the lives of young people, giving nothing in
return.
Just what is wisest to give in return is our great problem. The church
_must_ meet it and it needs help.
The time is ripe and more than ripe for the direct appeal to the
home. It should be made through every avenue and in every language.
It should be made through every newspaper and printed in every
tongue--"_Responsibility_ belongs to the home." All sorts of homes
must help in making the atmosphere in which a young girl must live,
_safe_, free from poisons that mean suffering and in the long run
death to the best things.
I happened one day in a smoke laden city upon a group of women in one of
the residential districts who were meeting together to see if all the
families for a certain number of blocks east and west would promise to
use only hard coal in their homes. One of the women, the mother of
three young children, pictured vividly the difference it would make in
the atmosphere their children must breathe and closed her appeal by
saying, "But women, it means that we must _all_ burn it.
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