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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This awakening of the heart to its sins and the need of the forgiveness of<br />
God, is called conviction. That causing conviction which whispers to the<br />
soul, pointing out its needs, is the voice of the Spirit of God — and she who<br />
hardens her heart and will not listen is shutting her door to Christ. He will<br />
come again and again, knocking louder and louder as her need is more<br />
clearly understood. But if she continues to reject the wooing of the Spirit,<br />
He will go away, leaving her heart harder than before.<br />
When conviction is yielded to, it brings the girl to repentance. Anyone is<br />
sorry for wrongdoing when caught or about to be punished — but the<br />
sorrow that brings true repentance comes because God has been grieved.<br />
And true repentance will make a girl quit her evil ways, and make right her<br />
wrongs, so far as she is able. When a girl has wronged someone, or been<br />
deceitful or dishonest in anything — repentance will bring this all to her<br />
mind and make her willing to ask forgiveness. And repentance will also<br />
make her willing to forgive others, as she wants to be forgiven. When she<br />
has done all that she can do in forsaking her sins, and calls earnestly on<br />
God — she shall be forgiven, the Bible tells us. She will know in her own<br />
heart that she is forgiven. The Spirit, who so faithfully warned her of her<br />
sins and God's disapproval — now whispers to her heart that she is forgiven<br />
and is an adopted child into the family of God. The burden of sin and guilt<br />
will go away — and in its place will come a feeling of peace and quietness.<br />
From this time on, our girl should seek to do those things that are pleasing<br />
to God. She will find it easier to do right, and will find a joy in the service of<br />
God she never knew before.<br />
This experience we have just been describing is in the Bible called<br />
"conversion," and being "born again." To be converted means to be changed<br />
from one thing to another. The converted person is changed from a lost<br />
sinner — to a saved Christian; from being guilty — to being innocent; from<br />
the wrong path — to the right one. To be born again means to become a<br />
partaker of a new spiritual life. The one who is born again begins a new life<br />
in Christ. This experience is for every seeking heart.<br />
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