Taking It For Granted.

continued mother , humbler still , " I suppose it Avouldn't have taken much to turn me toAvards Sam in my young clays ; I always thought the AVOI'M and all of him ; but ho seemed to take rather more to Augusta . She Avas always nineteen to the dozenand I never could hold my OAVU

, against her And then your father , he came along , and I never Avas sorry it happened as it did . But now you don ' t need me , and Sam and I have about concluded to make arrangements , only f told him I must have a talk Avith you first

to get your advice . " Get my acbviee ! Dear little mother ! I Avas not idiotic enough to offer it if I had any advice to give . So she and Mr . Averill Avent on and " made arrangements . "

Which arrangements Avere that that clay two Aveeks , after a quiet Avedding at the minister ' s , they started oil' for California together , to begin life aneAv on each other ' s account , as blithe and joyous as two birds on the Aving . — American Voice of Masonni .

Dispersion Of Language.

DISPERSION OF LANGUAGE .

BY W . S . HOOPER . THIRD PAPER . The second dispersion of languge AVIS not so prominent , universal , or great as

that at the toAver of Babol . The first embraced all the Avorld , Avhile the second took in only a part of the civilized portion . The first had for its object the diffusion of tongues , so that all lands should be

peopled , cultivated , developed , and language be perpetuated under all the forms of coming civilization ; Avhile the second had for its object the instillation of certain great truths . This last occurred at the grand Avork of building King Solomon '

s Temple . We knoAv , in that great enterprise , Avorkmen , in great numbers , from many countries , Avere engaged . They came as the representatives of different nations , speaking perhaps different tongues , but there Avas no confusion of language , and

the dispersion , as already intimated , \ IS of a character far different from that of the former . Indeed , aside from the fact of this building being erected for the Avorship of God , the great object Avas the development of truth and its diffusion throughout the Avorld . To accomplish this other

nations Avere engaged , Avith the JeAvs , in the Avork . We remember at that time no nation , except the JeAvs , had a proper imderstanding of the poAver and authority of the Supreme Being , and infer that one of His designs in the Avork Avas to make the initiatory step toAvards the conversion of the idolatrous people of the rest of the Avorld .

Among the Avorkmen God s Avorshippers had the predominance , and the others soon perceived that a preA'ailing opinion 01 belief had a great effect upon their lives . This , they also soon perceived , Avas the result of the teachings of the kvw of 'God as it then was in the hands of the priests

and leaders of the JeAA s . These foreign men , by constant mingling in the society of God ' s people , imbibed much of their religion and piety , became imbued Avith it , and in large measure renounced idolatry , and became Avorshippers of the true God .

At the close of their labour it AA'as more difficult for them to throAv off the neAvty acquired religion than it had been to give up idolatry , and , instead of returning to their former practices , they carried aAvay Avith them true ideas of God , and thus

the language of the religion of the true God AA as diffused among the idolatrous nations , and men , generally , obtained so good an idea of his nature and character that not even their subsequent darkest hours could blot it out , nor piwent them from erecting over their idolatrous shrines nn altar dedicated to the true God .

It seems to be a matter of necessity for the Avellbeing of civilized society that both a commercial and a Avell developed spiritual language be spoken . Now , Avhatever may be the fact in regard to the origin of Masonry , Ave believe there

was at the building of the Temple of Solomon a Avell deA'eloped and thoroughly organized society of Avorkmen , and that its object Avas not only mutual protection , but also the development of the spiritual truth of the eternity of Jehovah and of man ' s duty to Him . Hence , as a consequence of