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if we do not believe he exists. How the
religious world today is unwittingly
playing into his hands! A primary dis-
crediting of God’s inerrant word leads
men to miss the prophecy that in these
days Satan will appear as an angel of
light (2 Corinthians 11: 14). a deception
made easy by the popular, though un-
biblical, teaching that he has horns,
hoofs, and a barbed tail.
In this perilous hour of declining faith
we would pass on the warning of 2
Thessalonians 2: 3-12: ‘Even him, whose
coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deceivableness of unright-
eousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved. And for this
cause God shall send them strong de-
lusion, that they should believe a lie.”
Is Any Bank Safe?
HE nation of France has made most
remarkable efforts to safeguard its
money in case of war. We read about it
in the April World's Work and quote as
condensed in Reader's Digest. Beneath
the streets of Paris is a subterranean lake,
and the article goes on to say: “At the
Bank of France this lake is 40 feet below
the surface. The lake itself is about 40
feet deep, and rests on a huge shelf of
solid rock. It is in this rock that the
gigantic vaults of the Bank of France
have been carved. The vaults form a
square hall, 20 feet from floor to ceiling,
its sides longer than a football field. The
walls are of concrete and sand and are
themselves 20 feet thick.
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Historic lands awake to progress. The
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JULY, 1929
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Camp of the Byrd Expedition to the South Pole. This is ‘‘Little America”
“The person who is fortunate enough to
be allowed to visit the vaults takes an
elevator on the ground floor of the old
bank building and, after descending
three stories, emerges at the head of a
stairway. At the foot of this stairway isa
door that is a sheer eight-ton mass of
steel, unbroken on the outside by any
lock or handle. Leading to this door is a
narrow gauge railroad track, at the other
end of which is an armored chariot as high
as a man. This chariot is nothing more
nor less than the key of the inner lock!
But wait!
“The steel door swings open, leaving a
narrow passage leading to another sur-
face of steel. This is the outer wall of a
steel and concrete tower, similar in con-
struction to the turret of an enormous
gun, that extends down into the vaults
themselves. This tower slowly revolves
go degrees on its axis until a seven-ton,
steel-cuirassed plug is opposite the pass-
age. Then with a subdued snoring of its
electric motors the chariot moves for-
ward, makes a right angle on a turn-
table, enters the passage, comes to a
stop with its complicated nose exactly
fitted into the plug, then shunts the
plug forward along the rails, leaving a
clear passage to the heart of the tower.
Here a small mine elevator carries you
down the well into the vaults themselves.
“The visitor’s first impression is that
he has been transported by magic into
some vast temple. Floor and ceiling
stretch away in a perspective broken only
by 8oo huge pillars. You might be in
Mars. . . .
“The most impressive, and also the
most empty, is the middle room, known
as Salle des Abris, to which is devoted
nearly half of the 12,000 square yards
that make up the total area of the hall.
In case of emergency it is here that the
entire work of the bank could be carried
on. Two thousand people could live and
work here. They would be nourished with
hot food from the huge kitchens, and
with cold food from the electric refriger-
ators. The 40,000-0dd cubic yards of air
in which they breathed would be changed
and filtered twice in an hour without
altering the temperature. The require-
ments of personal hygiene would be
taken care of by the spotlessly clean
lavatories. The whole underground city
would function as a complete, self-sup-
porting unit.
“There exists no land fort today that
boasts such elaborate defenses. The ex-
plosive force of projectiles from the
biggest mobile rifles in use today would
be exhausted before they reached the
ledge of rock. If a foreign army weré in
possession of the city they could, of
course, blow up the vaults, but the
bullion and specie would be blown up as
well. If a hostile group had actually
gained admittance to the vaults them-
selves the waters of the lake would
simply be diverted into the vaults, and
the enemies would drown like rats, while
the treasure would be unharmed.”
Does the reader’s mind flash with ours
to James 5: 1-7? “Your riches are cor-
rupted. . . . Your gold and silver is
cankered; and the rust of them shall be
a witness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days.” Also
Matthew 6: 20: “Lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves -
do not break through nor steal.” Can
men bore a cave (Continued on page 28)
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