On the Day of His Birth

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. Our Birthdays Of only two "birthdays" Holy Scripture makes mention. In Genesis of a birthday festival prepared in honor of Pharaoh, and in the Gospels of the wild festal day in Herod's palace, so gruesomely stained with the blood of the Baptist. And when alongside of this memory of what the Pharaohs and Herods...