The Nations Prepare for War
WITH a seemingly instinctive foresight of what is coming upon the earth, the nations are making universal preparation for war and strife. Some idea of the formidable agencies to be brought into the coming contest may be gathered from the description of the great iron-clad found in another column. The ring of the hammer, and the hum of the manufactory is everywhere heard; but it is not in beating swords into plowshares. "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears," is a divine command; and the world is everywhere heeding it. But "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks" is only a human announcement; and the deceived dreamers of peace and safety will wait in vain for its fulfillment.