Withereth, the Flower Fadeth

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. Autumn In some parts of England autumn is still called "fall." The common word used overseas for the waning part of the year is the familiar word "autumn," an expression derived from the French. But however widely this French word gained the field, the original word is by no means passed away, and in ordinary...