So God has done everything for _you_, to make the Gospel Refuge accessible. Your parents and ministers--your Bibles and churches and good books--are all, just like these refuge signals, pointing away from the cross-roads and by-roads of human reason, and human error, and self-righteousness, to the Lord Jesus Christ, and saying, "Flee! flee! flee for refuge to lay _hold_ on the hope set before you!" _Jesus_, too, the true Gospel Refuge, is full of rich provision. "Ye are complete in Him." He, as the true Joseph, gives forth out of the storehouses in His "treasure-cities," to all His needy people. What are some of these provisions? There is pardon--peace--justification--adoption--sanctification,--strength for the hour of weakness,--grace for the hour of temptation,--and the good hope of everlasting life for the hour of death. No wonder that he says to every poor sinner seeking admission within these gates, "_I am the bread of life: he that cometh unto me shall never hunger._"[59] As in the cities of Canaan, so in this glorious Gospel-City of which they were types, there is a Well of living water. What is this? It is the Holy Spirit. He is often in Scripture compared to water. "_If any man thirst_," said Jesus, "_let him come unto me, and drink. This spake he of the Spirit_."[60] This all-glorious well-spring, moreover, is not like those of the Palestine cities, which were sometimes dried up in seasons of drought, but "springing up unto everlasting life." Angels, too, are the porters,--the blessed warders that keep the gates of this Gospel-City. "_Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them who are heirs of salvation?_"[61] They love to watch by these gates, and to welcome every wanderer. How gladly they give the word, "_Open ye the gates, that the righteous_ (those made righteous through the righteousness of Jesus) _may enter in_!"[62] It is delightful, moreover, to think, that just as the Jewish cities were easily got at from all parts of Palestine, so from all parts of the world, may people go to the Greater and more Glorious Gospel Refuge. Poor Pagan of the far East! cast away your idols; the gates of the Gospel-City stand ready to welcome _you_. Indian of the far West! cast aside your warrior spear and your offerings of blood, and flee to the portals of mercy and to the blood which cleanseth from all sin. Laplander of the far North, amid your polar snows! Negro of Africa, amid your burning sands! rush to the provided shelter. There is salvation there for _you_. "The same Lord is rich to ALL that call upon Him." Happy prospect!--the time will come when the whole world will be found singing together the same song and uttering the same prayer, "_Open unto us the gates of righteousness, that we may enter into them, and praise the Lord!_"[63]