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 Someone has said that just as all roads in England lead to London, so should all texts of the Bible lead to the Cross. Of course, it will depend upon what the preacher is aiming at in his sermon; but there is, after all, only one thing to preach, and that is Christ, and Him crucified; and all the Bible leads to that it is the one thing in the Bible that counts. In reading Old Testament writing this thing strikes me over and over again, that when you read something in the Old Testament, you can often, very often, find its counterpart in the New. For instance, in the first book of the Old, I find my first Adam. In the first book of the New, I find my second. I find the Ark as a type of Christ in the Old: I find Christ Himself in the New; one door in the Ark for safety, and all go in that one door: one way to the Kingdom and to God—Christ. Who said Himself: "I am the Door." The first Adam fell, the second Adam stood the first Adam died; the second Adam rose again. In the Old Testament I find Moses and the Law. In the New Testament I find Christ, and in Christ I find grace and truth. I find sin and wrongdoing from page to page in both the New Testament and the Old. Sin was the only one fact that concerned Christ. Nothing else mattered with Christ so long as sinful men and sinful women were put right with God. Christ met sin, battled with it, and destroyed it. This was His mission, and He ful-