"At last, but yet the night had memories Sad in their sweetness, noble in their pain, Which, looking backward half regretfully In longing day-dreams oft we live again. At last, but this new day, that slowly dawns, Shall satisfy with its meridian fires Alike the longing born of fond regret And deeper yearnings that our hope inspires." That the Old Testament will still hold its place of power in any new dispensation is guaranteed by its significance for Christ and His Gospel. As Prof. G. A. Smith has said in a work which states the religious position in the light of recent Biblical study,[33] Christ accepted the history recorded in the Old Testament "as the preparation for Himself, and taught His disciples to find Him in it. He used it to justify His mission and to illuminate the mystery of His Cross.... Above all, He fed His own soul with its contents, and in the great crises of His life sustained Himself upon it as upon the living and sovereign Word of God. These are the highest external proofs--if indeed we can call them external--for the abiding validity of the Old Testament in the life and doctrine of Christ's Church. What was indispensable to the Redeemer must always be indispensable to the redeemed." W. H. BENNETT. [33] Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament, p. 11. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE NEW TESTAMENT BY WALTER F. ADENEY, M. A. Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Lancashire College, Manchester I.--CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXPOSITION