The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-07

II Commentary by the Rev. ID. M.
stearns.
copyright. 1898. by ID. M. stearns.l
I, 2.'"And Jesus answered and spake
unto them again by parallels, and said,
The kingdom Of heaven Is like unto GER
tain king which made marriage for his
son. /" When the kingdom shall have come
for which our Lord taught us 10 pray, the
will Of God shall be done on earth as In
heaven. But while this IL sure, according
to Rev. XII, Is; Cor XIV. "a, 20, and
other assurances, there arc many seeming
delays, and there shall be until the time
when He who has the title deeds shall ex-
claim, There shall be delay no longer"
REV Z, 9, X. W. The preparations for
that glorious contamination and the many
events leading up TO 1t are so one with 1t
that they seem to be spoken of as part of
1t. The Bible story begins with a marriage
In Eden. and ends with the marriage Of
the Lamb (Rev. xix), of which many mar
riage stories like those of Isaac and Re-
bekah, Joseph and Asenath, Moses and
Zipporah, Boaz and Ruth, are very sug-
gestive.
g. ''And sent forth his servants to call
them that were hidden to the wedding,
and they would not come" Not only will
there DO the bridegroom and the bride,
essential TO any wedding, but there will
be those who are called "The virgins her
companions" Ops. xiv. 40; perhaps the
wise virgins Of Math. XIV. Then there
are to be some who will be Watching for
their lord when he returns from the we'd
ding duke xii, 3d. and we read In Rev.
xix, 8, Blessed are they which are called
to tho marriage supper of the Lamb" All
will be there either as bride or guests who
are redeemed by His blood up to that time
Z. again, he sent forth other servants,
saying, Tell them which are hidden, Be-
hold have prepared my dinner. My oxen
and my fatlings are killed, and all things
are ready. Come unto the marriage"
Not until we shall SEQ the fullness and
megnificence Of all that is here signified,
when we shall be at the real marriage,
can we begin to imagiHe what Is included
in these preparations. But we can get
Some faint idea II we will Professionally and
prayerfully ponder this great fact, that God
SO loved that He gave His Son, and that
He who spared not His own Son will with
Him freely give all things (John iii, Is;
Rom. Viii 92). These servants may in
are not 50 Important as their
message: "An things are ready. Gomez
8. but they made hight of 10 and went
their ways, one 30 his firm. another to his
merchandise. am writing these notes
In the harbor Of Colombo, Ceylon, In the
last week of my three weeks trip from
Shanghai 10 Calcutta, and I have never
been moro impressed than I have these
weeks at SEA. with the awful truth that
they all make light of it. Meeting COM
panies of those who love the book from
day 30 day every day Of my life when at
home it Is something new to be asked TO
live for weeks with men and women who
roam the world over, but care not for Him
Or Hts affairs whose their breath is.
"And the remnant took His servants
and entreated them spitefully and slew
them" II those who make Night of these
things are allowed Co go on their way, the
way Of SELF and death, they may not show
the reality OF the carnal mind that Is in
them, but if the invitation Is pressed upon
them, the spirit of hatred, which Is muir
der, may become very manifest.
T. But when the king heard thereof he
was wrath, and he sent forth his armies
and destroyed those murderers and burned
up their CITY," Because there is wrath
beware let He take thee away with His
stroke; then great ransom cannot deliver
thee dob xxxiv, 1S).
3. "Then saith He To His servants, The
wedding is ready, but they which were
hidden were not worthy" He might have
said that they did not consider His invita-
ton worthy OF acceptance, but He seems
to pass by their treatment of ii i'm and
speaks only OF their treatment Of them
selves. II may be like Paul's saying TO
the people of Antioch, "Ye put the word
OF God from you and judge yourselves un
worthy Of everlasting life (Acts xiii. 46).
8, 10. "Go yc, therefore, into the high
ways, and as many as ye shall find bid to
the marriage. go those servants went,
and the wedding was furnished with
guests. Our present commission is to
90 everywhere with she invitation that the
time OF the marriage may como.
ii. And when tho king came in to see |
The guests he saw there nnap which had
not on wedding garment" There is one,
and only one, who will judge every one
and everything (Acts xvii, sd. His eyes |
are NJ fame of fire, and nothing oan
escapo Him OF them. 1t is a small matter |
what people think of as
Christ Is the Judge, not they. He has, by |
being made sin for us, provided perfect |
righteousness which He gives freely to any |
one who will truly accept Him Oh Cor. v,
~. It Is Illustrated In the coats Of skins |
provided for Adam and Eve (Gen. iii, 81, |
Ind plainly stated by the believer In Isa
ri, 10.
10. And He saith unto him, Friend,
how earnest thou in hither not having a
Wedding garment And no was speechless.
A. the thief Is ashamed when he Is found |
IJer. II, 26). so sinners shall be ashamed |
md eonfoundcd when brought before His |
'yes Of fire, and John ii, 30, indicates a
OF believers being In some sense |
Ind measure ashamed ALSO
IL. Then said the king 10 the servants,
Bind him hand and foot and take him !
away and cast him into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing Of
'eeth." Only In seven places do we find |
his oppression indicating great torment.
The other places are Math. Will, IL; xiii,
~, 30; xiv, 81; XIV, 30, and Luke xiii,
%. In each case they are from His lips |
who was the manifestation of the love of |
sod, and who so loved us that He. gave
Himself for us and came from the glory |
Of henyen 10 80 years of unuaralleIad bu-