There has been a great deal of discussion of late as to whether property owners should build fall-out shelters for their own families. Some have advocated building such shelters and providing them with all the necessities for survival, including even weapons to keep others from intruding or overcrowding the quarters! Others object to this, however, as a savage viewpoint, and feel it would hardly be worth survival to have to turn a deaf ear to the cries of neighbors or friends who might need shelter too.
When this writer was a boy, dad read the Bible and we prayed and gave thanks to God at every meal. One result of this has been that today not one member of our large family shares the fears of the world as to the atomic bomb.
America as a whole is not so well off. She is departing from God and the Bible. As a result, a constantly increasing number of its families are being broken up through juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, drugs, divorce, etc., and with these a chilling fear of the future.
St. Paul said to the Philippian jailor: βBelieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy houseβ (ActsΒ 16:31). This, of course, does not mean that if a man trusts Christ as his Savior, the rest of the family will be automatically saved. The sense is rather: βBelieve in Christ and you will be saved, and this goes for your household too β if they believe they will be savedβ. As Rom.Β 14:12Β says: βEvery one of us shall give account of himself to God,β but it is a wonderful fact that nothing is so apt to keep a family together as mutual faith in Christ and a mutual love for the Bible. Letβs be more concerned about this type of family survival. Letβs make God our βfall-out shelter.β source
