Is It Safe to Build Here?
By Editor
Yes, we believe it to be as safe to build in California, in the earthquake-devastated district, as in New York, or Michigan, or Nebraska, or Texas, or any place on this earth. We would as soon meet an earthquake as a cyclone, and of the two would choose the former. From a worldly view we would as soon invest in California as in Illinois. There is no more security against earthquakes in New York or Chicago than in San Francisco so far as we or any other soul knows; the shock may come elsewhere next. We have no desire to move East unless God calls there; and where duty lies is the safest place on earth. We have no more fear for the West than for the East; our hope, thank God, is based on a better Foundation, reaching to the better land, the better country, the city of God. When this sin-laden earth shall melt at the holy presence of her Maker, we will want, dear reader, a better foundation. If we have it then, we must obtain it now. All that is of God will endure in that day; all that is sinful and selfish will perish. "Occupy till I come," are the words of the Master, and God wants us to use this world as not abusing it; but let us not fix our hopes here. He only builds surely who in Christ Jesus builds righteous character for eternity.