Beautiful Girlhood compiled by Debra Maffett
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
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THE GIRL WHO CAN BE TRUSTED<br />
"I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on Your laws."<br />
Psalm 119:30<br />
A girl who can be trusted! What a treasure she is! What a strength of<br />
character she has for her young life's beginning — if she has learned to<br />
keep her word exactly, to be trustworthy!<br />
But not every girl is naturally trustworthy. Many have to learn through<br />
bitter experience, that it is better to be true to one's word, to stand <strong>by</strong> a<br />
promise, to be obedient when out of sight and hearing of those over her —<br />
than to choose a different path and act secretly.<br />
It was a scene not to be forgotten <strong>by</strong> any of the three. The mother sat<br />
directly in front of the fire, its faint flickers showing the troubled lines on<br />
her face. The father sat at her left hand, his face set sternly; for he was a<br />
man to resent the actions of anyone who brought anxiety to that dear face<br />
beside him. At her right, in a little huddled heap, was the young daughter.<br />
She had just passed her fourteenth birthday, and she was as troubled and in<br />
as great a turmoil as many another girl of that age has found herself. She<br />
had been taking things into her own hands and having "good times" that<br />
had come about through deception — but the owl-like eyes of her mother,<br />
who, like many other mothers, seemed to see what was done entirely in the<br />
dark, had found out all the winding paths she had taken, and now<br />
the escapades were to be laid bare before her father. The young girl<br />
dreaded the ordeal, and already was beginning to see that deception in all<br />
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