When you are tempted to escape by a lie the consequences of what you have said or done—Don't.
When you are tempted to let envy or jealousy find expression in words or acts of meanness and unkindness—Don't.
When you are tempted to repeat a story or say a daring thing you would not say in the presence of the one whose respect you desire—Don't.
When you are tired of the struggle to be true and do right, tired of the effort to seek always the best things and are tempted to give up—Don't.
When you are tempted to repay injustice with revenge, unkindness with cruelty, jealousy with malice, to do to others as they do to you—Don't.
Learn the power of control, of restraint and though it be only the negative side of religion, it will help to make you strong.
When the instructor in religion opens his eyes and sees the peril which lies in wait for the girl wage earner, the society girl and even the schoolgirl, what he is forced to see makes him say with a passionate cry from his soul, as he thinks of the individual girls whom he knows and loves, "Thou shall not."