Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1910-09-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PASTOR RUSSELL'S BIBLE STUDIES.  In the everyday rusti of our work many of us forget that grandest of all books, the Bible. Many of us have a confused idea of it; the facts are not systematised in our minds. They are not definite, and many of the thoughts in it have been turned by weakness of memory to an entirely different view than that intended. For those who appreciat3 the better thoughts of life a short Bible study will appea.r each week Theee studies will create food for argument and thought around the fireside. They will turn the minds of old and young toward the Father and Creator. We need such assistance in this age of bustle and hurry. it them. They may do you good_ They may do your family good, and altogether will have a good influence on everything around you, and provide a pleasing five minutes thought for everybody. Pastor Russell, the present Minister af that famous church of "The o!.ty of Churches," Brooklyn, New York, who contributes these studies, does not represent or advocate any particular creed or denomination, and therefore his thoughts will be of equal interest and profit to ell Should any point raised in the Studies not meet with the acceptance of any reader, space will be given for stating an opposite view, and awards made each week to contributors.  the Bride of Isaac, typified the Holy Spirit, whore work during this Gospel Age is bringing to Christ the Bride-class--" the very elect." So this parable shows that the King sent forth the call to the Marriage. The Jewish people, the children of Abraham according to the flesh, fled been invited to this high honour from the time of the giving of the Law Covenant at Sinai. Century after oentury they waited for the announcement to be made to them that the nuptial feast was ready. Finally, when Jesus came, the announce. ment went to them—" All things are now ready! Come to the feast!" Mcanthne, they had become overcharged with the cares of this life—busine, politics, and religious schemes of their own concocting. They manifested no interest in the announcement, and even beat some of the servants— the Apostles and others—who sought to help them, and to draw their attention to the Great Feast which was their special privilege. The Almighty was wroth and sent the Roman armies and "destroyed those murderers and burned up their City," Jerusalem, in A.D. 70. Then the King sal dto his servants, The wedding must take place even though those who were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the high. ways and as many as ye find bring tothe marriage fwast. As the city represented the Jewish nation, so the highways represented the world in general— the Gentiles—to whom the message of the Kingdom VMS sent after fleshly Israel had first enjoyed the offer and but partially improved it. Another statement of the parable shows three different classes:—  (1) The Jewish rulers who rejected Him. (2) Those called from among the streets and lanes of their city and gathered to the spirit plane by Jesus and the Apos:tles.  (3) Then the report was given, "We have done 'as thou haat commanded, and yet there is room." Then the message went forth to go e-verywhere among the Gentiles and urge them to come in, until the house should be filled—until the elect number for whom the feast was provided would be found. Our Study states that the wedding was furnished with oueets—good and bad. In other words the offer of a share with Christ in his Kingdom has attracted some iaaturally very fallen, as vrell se some better favoured by nature. But the arrangements of the Great King are such that the "wedding garment" coverts all the blemishes of the most imperfect as well as those of the least imperfect.