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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love. But he was not a Christian, and as their acquaintance became more<br />
intimate, he saw more and more her determination to be guided in<br />
everything <strong>by</strong> her pattern, Christ. He loved the things of this life and<br />
desired that their lives together should be mirthful and full of worldly<br />
pleasure, while he saw plainly that her mind ran to things spiritual. He<br />
thought it best for them to understand before marriage, that their lives were<br />
not to be pious — but should be given to the things he loved. So one evening<br />
he told her plainly his position.<br />
Her blue eyes opened wide in astonishment that he should set before her<br />
such a choice; for he had said that if she were not willing to give up her<br />
Christianity — she must give him up. She was disappointed, for she had<br />
hoped to win him for the Lord. But her answer came firmly from her heart,<br />
"I will not give up my Lord for any man." This decision cost her his<br />
friendship and the fulfillment of all the hopes and plans they had built —<br />
but she had in her heart the consciousness of having stood <strong>by</strong> her<br />
convictions.<br />
And you, too, must stand <strong>by</strong> your convictions at the cost of things you love.<br />
An ideal is worth little, if it is not worth wholehearted, honest effort.<br />
Nothing is more pitiful than a woman whose mind admires purity and right<br />
— yet whose will is too weak to choose them and whose life is blighted <strong>by</strong><br />
the sin and mire about her. Be true, be noble, aim high — and God will give<br />
you strength to keep your ideals!<br />
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