We need to keep always a high ideal before us, and as civilisation
increases and brings ever new possibilities of enjoyment, the
maintenance of that high ideal becomes always more difficult. Nothing
helps so much to keep us from low ideals as the conviction that life is
a call from God to service, and that our truest happiness is to be found
in using every gift, every capacity that we possess, for the good of
others.
Girls naturally look forward into life and wonder what it will bring
them. Those will probably be the happiest who early in life are obliged
or encouraged to prepare themselves for some definite work. But however
this may be, they should all from the first realise the bigness of their
position, and see themselves as citizens of a great country, with a
great work to do for God in the world.
It may be that they will be called to what seems the most natural work
for women--to have homes of their own and to realise their citizenship
as wives and mothers, doing surely the most important work that any
citizen can fulfil. Or they may have either for a time or for life some
definite work of their own to do. Everywhere the work of women is being
increasingly called for in all departments of life, yet women do not
always show the enterprise to embark on new lines or the energy to
develop their capacities in such a way as to fit them to do the work
that lies before them.
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