Sorrow Is Better Than Laughter

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. Every one among us knows that in the so-called Sermon on the Mount our Savior declared and testified: "Blessed are they that mourn." But do we also remember that, ten centuries before this, the Preacher said: "Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better" (Eccl. 7:3)?...