The Ways of Her House

Reprinted from When Thou Sittest In Thine House, by Abraham Kuyper, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1929. Used by permission of Eerdmans Publishing Co. Care for the House Of the good housewife the Proverb-poet writes that she does not eat "the bread of idleness, for she ever looketh well to the ways of her household" (Prov. 31:27). There was a time when, especially in our large cities, some housemothers thought that this looking to the ways of her house referred to...