PREFACE. THE title will explain for whom this story is especially intended. Having myself passed “from girlhood to womanhood," with all its life-awakenings, longings and perplexities, I yearn with great sympathy and love over those just entering upon an age so full of earnest questioning and solemn thought; and out of that yearning has grown-this little volume. To my younger sisters everywhere, I dedicate my heart-thoughts and, in part, life's history. May they gather from the "broken lights" of lives touched with the healing rays of the Sun of Righteousness, some clear shining for those hours of doubt and wondering longing, into which newly awakened |