Labor Not for the Meat That Perisheth

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. Not Live by Bread Alone To labor, to be busy, to work is our high human calling. For though it is true that God the Lord, after the fall, has said: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Gen. 3:19), yet in this saying the emphasis and stress fall on "the sweat of the face" and upon the "eating bread." With...