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multitudinous of all people . When the Getae , or Goths , Avere invaded in there possessions on the Euxine , by Darius , Alexander , and Attila , they poured into Italy and Spain , and they pushed

north , south , east , and Avest , until Europe Avas occupied by them . Gaul was laid hold of by the Franks , another branch of the same family , while Britain came into the possession of thc

Anglo-Saxons , after they had erected the states Germany , Cimbria , and Scandinavia . Thus Europe almost entirely fell into their hands , and in later times they spread themselves over the

other quarters ofthe globe , Asia , Africa , America , and Australia , with the islands pertaining to them , in the Atlantic , Pacific , and Indian Oceans . No one can contemplate these great facts without

feelings of wonder and amazement . There is scarcely any place of importance in any part of the globe which they do not inhabit , excepting

their own land of Canaan , the time for which has not yet arrived . Wherever this race goes , it carries with it the blessings of religion and civilisation .

No . XIV . Aug . 26 th , 1871 . —When Moses pronounced a blecsing on the Tribe of Joseph ( Dent , xxxiii ., 14 ) he said " Blessed ofthe Lord be the land for the precious things brought forth

by the sun and put forth by the moon . " This is supposed to refer to the fruitfulness of Josep h ' s lot in the land of Canaan , and to indicate that it should bring forth fruit every month of thc year .

The land allotted to Joseph ( Ephraim and Manas * Seh ) Avas situated on both sides of the Jordan , and was doubtless very fruitful and diversified in climate , but it did not yield fruits every

month in the year . The blessing must therefore have reference to a distant future , when their successors should have possessions throughout the whole world , as the Anglo-Saxons have . No

other people have settlements throughout the wide World , and which afford them fruits in every month of the year . The Anglo-Saxons are pre-eminently a

colonizing people . Phu-nicia and Greece were both maritime countries , and sent forth colonist ; , being forced thereto , either b y increase of numbers , or by beinsr driven out by other nations , as was the

case with the Phoenicians , who at an early date planted colonies along the Mediterranean coasts . The Greek colonies Avere numerous in the / Egean

Sea , and some of them became considerable states . The Roman colonies were also numerous , but they were founded for political objects , such as to secure conquests .

The Gettc , or Goths , who overthrew the Western Empire , did not found colonies , but they formed new states and kingdoms . Their

descendants , the Angle-Saxons , have colonised , not as conquerors , but by discovery and commercial enterprise , thereby providing for multitudes of their people who were too straitened at home .

The marvellous growth of the colonial empire , and the wonderful increase in numbers of the

Saxon race 111 America and elsewhere , bring to to mind the words of Isaiah ( xlix ., 20 , 21)—"The children shall say in th y ears , the place is too strait for me -. give place for me that I may

dwell . " The Anglo-Saxons , unlike tlie Phcenicians , Greeks , Romans , and other ancient and modem nations , have inherited "the desolate places . " ( Isaiah yjjs . 3 . ) Thv delate ( that is

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the divorced one ) was to bring forth so many children that she was to enlarge the place of her tent , and stretch forth the curtains of her habitations . " for " thy seed shall inherit the nations , and make the desolate cities to be inhabited . "

Israel Avas to be " soAvn in the earth ( Hos . 11 . 23 ) , " for I will sow them among the people , and they AA'ill remember me in far countries . " ( Zach .

x ., 8 . ) None but the Anglo-Saxons have thus inhabited the waste and desolate places . The American , Australian and South African colonies Avere all

" uninhabited , " except by a few wandering savages . A passage in Deuteroiiomy , xxxii ., 8 , 9 , has perplexed commentators , and is thus translated

by Bishop Horsley . "When the Most High assigned the heathen their inheritance , He set the bounds cf His own people according to the number of the sons of Israel , for the portion of

Jehovah is Jacob , the peoples are the measured lot i of Israel ' s inheritance . " The meaning of this is that Israel ( according to the constant strain of

prophecy ) is to inherit all the nations . Israel was to be a measuring line , or cord , or rod ; they were to " enconmass" the inheritance their

posterity were to possess . The descendants of Israel , preserved in the ten tribes , and known , after their captivity , first as the Getre , or bruised ones , then as the

Anglo-Saxons , have , by the multiplicity ol their possessions , and by the influence they exert over other people , as in India and elseAvhere , fulfilled the words spoken by Moses . They have

measand eilcompassed , if they have not occupied , the whole earth . The Queen , as the head of the Anglo-Saxon race , has a dominion on which the sun never sets . Trace the British dominions on

a map , and see the realisation of ancient prophecy . The Psalmist says ( lix ., 1 , 3 ) " Let them knoAV that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth . "

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ERNEST AND FALK .

CONVERSATIONS l-ciii FREEMASONS . BY BRO . GOTTIIOLD EPHRAIM LESSINO . TRANSLATED HY BRO . KENNETH R . H . MACKENZIE , F . S . A .

CONVERSATION . — II . ERNKST . Well , where are you going r And have you not got the butterfly ? FALK . He enticed me from bush to bush , down

to the rivulet . Suddenly he fluttered over it . ERNEST . Yes , yes , they ' re such seducers . FALK . Have you thought over it . ERNEST . Over what ? Oh , of your riddle r I

shall also not catch' it , this pretty butterfly 1 and so it shall give mc no further trouble . One conversation with you about Freemasonry , and no more ; for I see you are like all the rest .

FALK . Like all the rest r The rest do not jay so . ERNEST . Nor There are then heretics among he Freemasons ? And you are one of them ?

Hut all heretics have something in common , vith the orthodox . And it was that of which I ; poke , FALK . Of •- •. 'hat ;

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ERNEST . Orthodox or heretic Freemasons ; they all play with words , and have questions put to them , and reply without answering . FALK . Think you so ? Well then , let us speak

of something else . I or once you have routed me from the comfortable state of dumb astonishment . ERNEST . Nothing is more easy than to restore

you to that condition . Sit down by me and watch . FALK . What shall I watch ? ERNEST . The life and activity in this ant hill .

What industry , and yet Avhat order ! Every insect is carrying , dragging , and pushing , and no single one is in another ' s way . Look ! look ! they even help each other .

FALK . The ants live in society like the bees . ERNEST . And in a still more singularly constructed society than the bees ; for they have no ruling power over them , keeping together , restraining ,

or governing them . FALK . Order , then , exists without government ? ERNEST . If each one is able to govern itself ,

why not ? FALK . Will such ever be the case with men ? ERNEST . Scarcely . FALK . It is sad to say so .

ERNEST . Yes , indeed ! FALK . Get up , and let us go ; for the ants will be crawling over us ; and I just remember that I have to ask you something . I know not your

opinion on this head . ERNEST . On what head ? FALK . On the social life of men in general . What think you of it r

ERNEST . That is a thing which is very good . FALK . NO doubt . But do you regard it as the means or the end ? ERNEST . I do not understand .

FALK . DO you believe that men were created for the state ? Or on the other hand , the state for men ?

ERNEST . The former opinion is held by some , the latter may be the truer . FALK . And I think so likewise . The state

associates men , in order that by and m this union each man , individually , should be able to enjoy his portion of happiness with greater gusto and security . The total of the individual happiness of all

the members is the happiness ofthe state ; beyond this there is none . Every other state-happiness under which any , no matter how few , of the members sutler , is veiled tryanny , nothing else .

ERNIIST . I would rather not say that so loud . FALK . Wh y not ? ER ;; KST . A truth , which every one understands

according to his own position , can be very easily misused . FALK . Do you know , friend , that you are ; already half a Freemason .

ERNEST . I r FALK . YOU ; for you already acknowledge thv existence of truth which it is better to be silent

about . ERNEST . But truths which can be said . FALK . The wise man cannot say that whicli it

is politic to conceal . ERNEST . Well ! as you please ! Let us however , not get back to the Freemasons . I don ' t want to know anything mora about them .