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 depends on her pretty face or form for attraction, is to be<br />
most pitied! Those articles in magazines that so exalt the idea of outer<br />
beauty, are pandering to the baser part of nature. One may be perfectly<br />
beautiful so far as that kind of beauty goes — and lack that true<br />
beauty which is like a royal diadem upon the head. Those who give much<br />
time to increasing their personal charms are living on a lower level, than is<br />
altogether befitting to womanhood. A beautiful soul shining out of a homely<br />
face — is far more attractive than a beautiful face out of which looks a soul<br />
full of selfishness and pride!<br />
My little friend, do not be careless of the good looks that God has given to<br />
you, take care in dressing yourself and attending to personal neatness, that<br />
you may ever appear at your best; untidiness and carelessness hide the<br />
beauty of kind deeds — but greatness of soul and nobility of heart, hide<br />
homeliness of face. You cannot see the one for the other. Seek goodness and<br />
purity first, then strive to keep the body in harmony with the beauty of<br />
the heart. Take time to make yourself presentable — but do not use the time<br />
before your looking-glass that should be given to loving service. Let your<br />
chief charm be of heart and mind — not of face and form. Seek the true<br />
beauty which lasts even into old age!<br />
Solomon, in one of his wise sayings, expressed plainly the evil that comes to<br />
a woman who is beautiful of face but lacks the true beauty of soul: "Like a<br />
gold ring in a swine's snout — is a beautiful woman who shows no<br />
discretion!" Proverbs 11:22. As the swine would plunge the golden jewel<br />
into the filth and the mire as he dug in the dirt — so will a pretty woman<br />
who is not godly drag her beauty down to the very lowest.<br />
There are many peculiar temptations to those who are only lovely of face.<br />
Without true beauty of soul — a pretty face is a dangerous gift!<br />
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