Beautifully did this youthful dreamer apply his own "vision of the night." It was:--How vain are all the boasted sheathings of the armour of self-righteousness; and how safe and glorious is that "white linen" covering of the righteousness of Jesus! To the eye of reason, the panoply of iron and steel seems the best, and strongest, and securest. Many will not "submit themselves to the righteousness of God," and persist in using the others. But they will be a poor protection against the sword of God's avenging justice. Happy are those who have been led to look _above_ for another righteousness, and who have listened to the Divine injunction, "_Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ!_"[66] Reader, let me ask, is this your case? Don't think, because you are young, and have committed few sins, that you are safer than those who have committed many, and that you have not the same urgent need to flee to Jesus for refuge. In Canaan of old, the manslayer was in danger of his life, whether he had killed one or several. One single life, like one single sin, exposed him to the fury of the avenger. Nay, more. The Hebrew fugitive _might elude_ his avenger! He might manage, for days, or weeks, or years, to screen himself from his wrath. He might go, as David did to avoid Saul, to some cave of Adullam; he might hide in the gloomy recesses of some forest;--amid the oaks of Bashan, or the rocky gorges of the Jordan, or amid the cedar-heights of Lebanon;--in the words of Ezekiel, "dwelling safely in the wilderness, and sleeping in the woods."[67] But it is different with the sinner and _his_ Avenger:--"_Vengeance is mine; and I_ WILL _repay, saith the Lord_."[68] Who can escape _His_ glance? Who can hide from _His_ all-seeing eye? "If I should find some cave unknown, Where human foot had never trod, Even there I could not be alone-- On every side there would be GOD. "He smiles in heaven, He frowns in hell, He fills the air, the earth, the sea; I _must_ within His presence dwell, I cannot from His anger flee." The _fourth_ thing I want to say to you is:--That _many young and old_ HAVE _fled to Jesus, the Gospel City of Refuge, and have found themselves safe and happy there_. How delightful it is, year by year, to trace the footsteps of those, whether young or old, rich or poor, who have repaired to that blessed shelter! I shall close this little volume by telling you of _two_ such, now inhabitants of the better _celestial City_. Very different they were in years, in country, in outward position. But they were alike in this,--that they fled in life to the gates of the Gospel Refuge; and to both _the_ NAME _of_ JESUS was specially precious.