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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Other girls dream of success in business undertakings, or in some other<br />
chosen field of work. They not only dream — but set to work to make those<br />
dreams come true. I will say that no girl has ever made a success at<br />
anything in which her dreams have not gone ahead to brighten the way<br />
before her. She has been able to dream dreams when the circumstances<br />
around her were all against their fulfillment. They have given her courage<br />
and strength <strong>by</strong> the way. Such dreams are always good.<br />
And again, we find some girls who feel deep in their hearts a desire<br />
for usefulness in some special way in the world. They want to be nurses, or<br />
teachers, or missionaries, or gospel workers. Every dream of theirs, is of the<br />
day when they may be at these things. And, true to their calling, they<br />
endeavor to make their lives bend toward those ends. Every glorious life<br />
lived unselfishly in toil on these chosen fields, is the fruit of these dreams.<br />
Without the dream, the girl would never have undergone the work and<br />
hardship of preparation and service. Would that every girl had some such<br />
dream to beckon her on.<br />
Mary Slessor, the "White Queen of Okoyong," from childhood dreamed<br />
herself a missionary in Africa. It is my privilege to know personally women<br />
who have given a large portion of their lives to gospel and missionary work,<br />
and they tell me of their dreams, which became more than dreams.<br />
WHY do girls dream? Because all life is before them, and they cannot but<br />
anticipate the future that awaits them. Youth is the time for making ready<br />
— and why should a girl not try to get some idea of the thing for which she<br />
is making ready? She is like a person standing upon the shore watching her<br />
ship come in. What goes on around her is of little account; all her riches lie<br />
out there in the deep, in that slowly approaching ship. So the girl stands<br />
and looks forward. All that has been in her life, and all that is now, are only<br />
passing and of little weight; her riches and joys lie in the ship just ahead.<br />
Dream, my little friend, dream! But guide your dreams, lest they wander off<br />
into forbidden paths. And do not let your dreams consume time that should<br />
be given to present service. The girl who sits and dreams of the good things<br />
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