The Hasty Fruit Before Summer

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. Summer Rightly viewed, the Scripture knows but two seasons of year: summer and winter. You hear this in the divine utterance after the Flood: "Henceforth, while the earth remaineth, cold and heat, summer and winter shall not cease" (Gen. 8:22). So in Psalm 74:17, in silence passing spring and autumn by: "Thou hast...