When Thou Sittest in Thine House

Abraham Kuyper — When Thou Sittest in Thine House: Meditations on Home Life, translated from the Dutch by John Hendrik de Vries (Eerdmans, 1929). Published in 1929, it is in the public domain in the United States only (the 95-year term ended in 2025); it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Fifty-eight meditations on the Christian household: the family’s place in God’s creation, husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters, the home’s work, money and trouble, sickness and old age, the family’s dead, and the generations. The foreword is dated Amsterdam, 1 July 1899.

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Contents (60)

1. A Word Preliminary
2. Translator’s Preface
3. 1. In the Beginning
4. 2. When Thou Sittest in Thine House
5. 3. No Vain Repetition of Words
6. 4. It Had Been Evening and Morning
7. 5. The Night Also Is Thine
8. 6. The Winter, Which Thou Hast Made
9. 7. Thou Renewest the Face of the Earth
10. 8. The Hasty Fruit Before Summer
11. 9. The Grass Withereth, the Flower Fadeth
12. 10. On the Day of His Birth
13. 11. And He Builded a City
14. 12. Male and Female Created He Them
15. 13. Which Were Expressed by Name
16. 14. A Virtuous Woman
17. 15. If Your Soul Were in My Soul’s Stead
18. 16. The Men Which Knew of It
19. 17. If Then I Be a Father, Where Is My Honor?
20. 18. Can a Woman Forget Her Sucking Child?
21. 19. Children Are an Heritage of the Lord
22. 20. Curiously Wrought
23. 21. How He Would Have Him Called
24. 22. His Brother Abel
25. 23. Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
26. 24. Rebuke Before All
27. 25. Sheep in the Midst of Wolves
28. 26. As a Lamb in a Large Place
29. 27. Forget Not Hospitality
30. 28. None of Thy Kindred
31. 29. Account of Income and Outgo
32. 30. She Girdeth Her Loins with Strength
33. 31. A Portion to Her Maids
34. 32. Be Subject with Fear
35. 33. Fragments That Remain
36. 34. Keep the Body Under
37. 35. The Ways of Her House
38. 36. Labor Not for the Meat That Perisheth
39. 37. Of Her Living
40. 38. Hasty in Words
41. 39. Forget It Not
42. 40. With Contentment
43. 41. Luxurious Living
44. 42. A Time to Laugh
45. 43. Sorrow Is Better Than Laughter
46. 44. In the Midst of Trouble
47. 45. Every Day Has Evil Enough of Its Own
48. 46. To Put It Into Thine Hand
49. 47. The First Isaianic Woe!
50. 48. The Second Isaianic Woe!
51. 49. The Third Isaianic Woe!
52. 50. The Fourth Isaianic Woe!
53. 51. The Fifth Isaianic Woe!
54. 52. The Sixth Isaianic Woe!
55. 53. No One Shall Say: I Am Sick
56. 54. Forsake Me Not When I Am Old
57. 55. Who Have Fallen Asleep in Jesus
58. 56. His Name Shall Be Propagated from Child to Child
59. 57. The Book of the Generation
60. 58. Without Me Ye Can Do Nothing