THE ESSENTIALS OF LIFE “The Cross was the dividing line between two eternities, the past and the future.” It marked the close of the Old Dispensation; it ushered in the commencement of the New Dispensation. It is, moreover, the central truth of the Bible, being seen in the Old Testament in type and figure and realised in the New Testament in antitype and reality. The Gospel narrative is comparatively meagre until the time