Dispersion Of Language.

Then IIOAV could South America and Mexico have become the most densely populated of all the transoceanic lands ? To have gone hi groat companies , as they must have travelled , from the extreme South East of the laud IIOAV called Turkey , to the extreme North East of Siberiathen South

, into Mexico and South America , down to Patagonia , Avould have required unnumbered ages . There is one solution to this historical and geographical problem . It is said hi Genesis that in the "days of Peleg the

earth Avas divided . " NOAV Peleg Avas born after the confusion of tongues , and the separation of the races . And Ave are to understand that at that time the earth Avas all in one body , and that this reference is to the division of the earth and not the

people . By a reference to the Atlas it Avill be seen that from Babel , East of the Mediteranean Sea , it was a matter of little moment to journey South into the North , of Arabia and thence East into the North of Africa . The same is true of the North West toAvard

Europe , and "West into India and China . NOAV by a further examination it will be found that the Western part of tlie Eastern Hemisphere , and the Eastern part of tlie Western Hemisphere are exact counterparts of each other , and that the Western coast ,

of Australia and the islands North , are to a great degree the counterpart of the Western coast of Southern Africa . Prom these tacts it is evident that the Avbole land Avas in one vast country , and that by a grand convulsion the earth Avas

ruptured , and became these various parts . NOAV , all of these Avere possessed by the tribes AVIIO bad emigrated from Babel , and , by this division , they Aveve dispersed into these various lands as Ave have them today . During the ages which folloAved they

emigrated into the more northern parts of their country ; but the southern parts kept the greater portion of the population , hence Avere larger in numbers at the times of modern discoveries . This is again developed by the fact that

Ave find the nations in the interior of barbarous lands , far removed from tlie bounds of civilization , have preserved many of the elements of the Oriental languages . Again , if Ave take any belt of the earth and travel East and West , Ave find the same general elements of language in that belt

Dispersion Of Language.

around the earth . Eor instance , going through the north of Africa into Arabia , China , and eA en as far north as Japan , then across into tlie region of America , tlie same general elements of speech prevail , although the language is so different that Ave cannot understand it . There is a great degree of

similarity iii the letters , intonation , voice , & c . Looking at these general facts Ave are convinced that this Avas the manner in Avliicb the Avorld ivas populated and language dispersed and preserved . AVe reserve the other dispersions , our Masonic language , and the antiquity of Masonry , for a future article .

The Bricklayer.

THE BRICKLAYER .

" Ho , to the top of the towering wall !" 'Tis the master-mason's rallying call;—"To the scaffolding , boys , now merrily climb ; 'Tis seven o ' clock by the town-bell's chime ! Bring to yoiu- work good muscle and brawn , And a keen , quick eye where the line is drawn : Out with your saw-tempered blades of steel !

Smoother than glass from point to heel ; King out your challenge : Mort , 0 Mori ! " Clink ! clink ! trowel and brick ! Music with labour and art combine ; Brick upon brick , lay them up quick : But lay to the line , boys ; lay to the line !

Cheery as crickets all the day long , Lightening labour with laugh and song ; Busy as bees upon angle and pier , Piling the red blocks tier upon tier ; Climbing and climbing still nearer the sun ; Prouder than kings of the work they have done ! Upward and upward the bricklayers go , Till men are but children and igmies below ;

p Ayiiile the master ' s orders falls ringing and short , To the staggering carrier , Mort , 0 Mori ! Cliuk ! clink ! trowel and brick ! Music with labour and art combine ; Brick upon brick , lay them up quick , But lay to the line , boys ; lay to the lino !

AAlio are the peers of the best in the land , Worthy ' neath arches of honour to stand ? They of tlie brick-reddened mortar-stained palms , With shoulders of giants and sinewy arms , Builders of cities and builders of homes , Propping the sky up with spires and domes ; AVriting thereon with their trowel and lime Legends of toil for the eyes of Time !

So that the ages may read as they run , All that their magical might has done ! So clink ! clink ! trowel and brick ! Work by the master ' s word and sign , " Brick upon brick , lay them up quick ! But lay to the line , boys ; lay to the line ! " —Scribuer ' s Monthly .