Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1890-11-21
The Secret Power.
From Tho Wapes'y Hsegress, BY Q
Lodge, p. ps Editorl

How destiny mocks at all the studied ar
engagements OF men How little they are
aware OF that hidden wisdom and concealed
! potency which writes history beforehand
and procures its subsequent enactment he
sistlessly that agency is at work TO- create
perpetual surprises in the natural and moral
spheres. There is no known law according
to which il operates, bringing to nought
that which is mighty, advancing triiies TO
the place of power, stimulating 10 growth
and perfection the feeble, whitening and
bringing to dissolution the gigantic, The
French say, "lt is the unexpected that hap
I pens" Reference of momentous effects 70
chance characterizes a type of mind volatile
and too Indifferent to evidence for fixed in-
teligent beliefs. Nothing happens. Evolve-
ment OF new facts only partially explains
old mysteries The unexpected assaults
and weakens single law-the law ofprob-
abilities II reveals nothing of interior mo.
tives, of obscure causes. Examples occur
for purposes of meditation and instruction..
They rebuke the pride Of intellect, admon-
ish infidelity of the heart, and check the
boastfulness Of the unruly spirit Saul, the
son of Kish, went out to seek his fathers
asses, and found kingdom. Was il for
good or evil the influence which directed
and controlled him? The answer is in the
history--that part of the answer granted
mortals. II enough be CLEANED To excite
reverence the transaction has served its end,
so far. The mind can only weary itself
with fruitless speculation.
Goethe matriculated at Leipsig, studied at
Strasburg, and was intended by his father
for lawyers profession as honorable as
any that could have been selected, and one
in which his great natural gifts, creating
and nourishinE q laudable ambition, w0urs1
certainly have brought forth rewards of
emoluments and honor: For IL is seldom
that the gifts of the great are restricted to
specific uses; success in one vocation may
be assumed as sufficient evidence of ability to
succeed in others. The fat, lazy preacher
would have been a wretched failure as
mechanic; while the healthy, vigorous col
lege president would have made the very
best blacksmith in the land. Promising al
ways u call to either position. Goethe's call
was TO be poet, philosopher, light OF men.
That this mighty figure in German lltera.
ture had his faults, it seems unnecessary to
say, while the liability inheres in every
thing human But the culture OF his glgan-
tic intellect, the just and discerning spirit
of his philosophy, the almost prophetic spirit
of poetry-where we can understand 1t at
all-shows him to have been Il man who,
had he been shut up in a lawyers office,
would compare to star of magnitude bot
tied in an ordinary lamp. Had his fathers
woh narvaiI.d and tha intention To tear
from this eagle his wings been carried out,
our cen ury would have been denied the
witness 10 one OF the grandest flights Of
genius. But Heaven had His own high
thoughts, and Goethe walked in IL way that
neither he nor any knew.
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