Abraham Kuyper — Keep Thy Solemn Feasts: Meditations, translated from the Dutch by John Hendrik de Vries (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1928). Published in 1928, it is in the public domain in the United States (the 95-year term ended in 2023); it may still be in copyright elsewhere.
Thirty-six meditations for the great days of the Christian year (Kuyper’s foreword is dated The Hague, 1 December 1903): nine for Christmas, nine for Easter, three for Ascension, six for Pentecost and nine for the Old and New Year. With a foreword by Kuyper and a translator’s preface on his life and work.
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Contents (38)
- Foreword
- Translator’s Preface
- Christmas I. Glory to God in the Highest
- Christmas II. Enmity Between Thy Seed and Her Seed
- Christmas III. Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace
- Christmas IV. Though He Was Rich, He Became Poor
- Christmas V. There Went Out a Decree from Caesar Augustus
- Christmas VI. To Give Light to Them That Sit in Darkness and in the Shadow of Death
- Christmas VII. God So Loved the World
- Christmas VIII. No Room in the Inn
- Christmas IX. Peace on Earth
- Easter I. Destroy Him That Had the Power of Death
- Easter II. Risen Indeed
- Easter III. Rose Again According to the Scriptures
- Easter IV. It Shall Bruise Thy Head
- Easter V. And Became as Dead Men
- Easter VI. Not Possible That He Should Be Holden of Death
- Easter VII. My Lord and My God
- Easter VIII. Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen and Yet Have Believed
- Easter IX. Seek Then Those Things That Are Above
- Ascension I. God Is Gone Up with a Shout
- Ascension II. Whither the Forerunner Is for Us Entered
- Ascension III. By Whom Also We Have Access
- Pentecost I. Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People
- Pentecost II. An Habitation of God Through the Spirit
- Pentecost III. To Drink into One Spirit
- Pentecost IV. It Is One Body, and One Spirit
- Pentecost V. With Gifts for the Comfort of Men
- Pentecost VI. The Fellowship of the Holy Ghost Be with You All
- Old and New Year I. I Am That I Am
- Old and New Year II. He Returneth Again to His Earth
- Old and New Year III. Who Declares the End from the Beginning
- Old and New Year IV. It Is Done
- Old and New Year V. Him Only Shalt Thou Serve
- Old and New Year VI. In the Order of His Course
- Old and New Year VII. All These Things Shall Be Added unto You
- Old and New Year VIII. Oh, How Great Is Thy Good
- Old and New Year IX. Thy Glory upon Their Children