THE MOST PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
THE Scientific American of March 29, in speaking of the demand for armor-plate and the recent big shipment to Russia of eighteen car loads, tells us that there is evidence that a third and fourth (there are now but two) armor-plate-making establishment will be demanded. It continues:— The industry is an extremely profitable one, even at the reduced price at which plate is now being furnished. Indeed, we do not know of any industrial enterprise in which capital could be invested on a large scale with surer certainty of profitable returns. There is not the slightest indication of any slowing up in the rate of growth of the navies of the world, our own included; and if the United States navy is to increase in adequate proportion to the extension of our foreign trade (as it certainly should do), the demands of our navy alone will before long require double the amount of armor-plate that is now being annually furnished by existing works. And this is just what the prophet of God predicted of this time 800 years before Christ. See Joel 3:9-12. And when all the nations are prepared for war, the great battle of Armageddon, predicted in the "more sure word of prophecy," will result. The preparation may be designed of men to be merely protective and preventive of sanguinary strife, and the nations are being impoverished for the purpose; but the "god of this world" has another object in view; and as sure as the nations are prepared for war will they fight to their final utter destruction. There is peace for all, but it is in Christ Jesus.