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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manner. If this ambition is linked with a life wholly given to God — then all<br />
her life will be indeed worthwhile!<br />
Now we come to unrequited ambitions. We look upon those things that<br />
have been desired and attempted — but never attained or accomplished. If<br />
these disappointments could all be brought together into one great pile, the<br />
mountain would fill all the earth!<br />
Here is . . .<br />
the girl who wanted to go to college — but had to begin teaching grade<br />
school;<br />
the boy who wanted to be a doctor — but was forced <strong>by</strong> circumstances to<br />
keep right on at the farm work;<br />
the man who in youth desired to be a great traveler — but who has never<br />
been out of his home state;<br />
the woman who wanted to be a great writer — but whose hands are busy<br />
only with the cares of an unappreciative household.<br />
Few there are indeed who have been able to accomplish all they desired,<br />
and whose ambitions have been realized in life.<br />
But this picture is not all dark. Youth is so short, and lacks so much in<br />
experience, and is able to look only one way — and therefore is liable to<br />
mistakes. The ambitions may be running in directions that are practically<br />
impossible of accomplishment, or may be ambitions which, if realized,<br />
would not be the best for the individual. So it is well that over us a wise<br />
Providence guides and directs, suiting to each one of us the path that is<br />
ours through life. It is only when ambition dies and we cease to care or try,<br />
that our lives become useless.<br />
Suppose the fire hidden away in the furnace should go out because it<br />
cannot realize its ambition of setting the mill on fire! Or suppose<br />
the mainspring of the watch should break because it cannot become the<br />
hands or face. Mill and watch would stop; for these hidden forces held so<br />
resolutely in check are what move them. And so the life that seems to be<br />
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