San Francisco Earthquake Reassurance
Professor Branner, of Stanford University, has assured San Franciscans that there need be no fear of a tidal wave sweeping over their peninsula. He has told them that the fault of April 18 had a slipping movement, not a falling movement. Presumably the people who saw the collapse and fall of scores of buildings on the morning of April 18 cared very little as to the scientific fault or the particular movement in the interior of the earth. It was tremendously effective whether it was a slip or a fall! The point, however, in Dr. Branner's assurance is that it will be some fifty years before we have another fault of the severity of that of last April. So he is reported. However, the earthquake may not follow a science time-table. It might be worth something in these times if men would give some attention to the Word of God which has spoken concerning these things.