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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strong purpose, the individual becomes but a creature of circumstance, a<br />
leaf tossed <strong>by</strong> the waves of life.<br />
The power of purpose, is the power of love. No man can cleave to any<br />
purpose with all his heart, unless he loves the cause for which he strives. He<br />
must so love that cause that to give it up would be like giving up his very<br />
life.<br />
I once read of a woman upon a lonely ranch in a foreign land. Her husband<br />
had to go away for a week or more, leaving her alone for that time with her<br />
little children. He had not been gone long before she was bitten <strong>by</strong> a<br />
poisonous serpent, and she knew that in a few hours, not more than eight,<br />
she must die. She remembered her children, and that if they were to be kept<br />
safe, she must in the time left her, draw enough water and bake enough<br />
bread to supply them until their father returned, or he might find his family<br />
all dead. So she worked and prayed that day, sick, fainting, almost<br />
unconscious; but love set her purpose strong, and she struggled on. Night<br />
came, and her hours were nearly up. She put her babes in bed, and<br />
wandered out of sight of the cabin to die — but with a determination to live<br />
as long as possible for her children's sake. And morning found her still<br />
alive, still walking, and her system beginning to clear from the poison. She<br />
lived to tell the story, a monument to the power of a loving purpose.<br />
Those who have made a success in anything, have done so because they set<br />
about the task with purpose. All the great machines that lighten the burden<br />
of labor in the fields and shops and factories, are the result of the steady<br />
purpose of their inventors. No man or woman has become of note in any<br />
work or field of research, but has worked on with steady purpose when<br />
circumstances were discouraging. They loved sincerely the cause for which<br />
they labored, and they gave it their attention in spite of all that came to<br />
hinder them.<br />
And you, my little friend, can make your life successful if you set to it with<br />
the power of purpose. When you know what your chosen field is, where<br />
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