The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-17
REMARK ABLE PREDICTIONS.
Some Instances in which Prophecies
Have Come True.

hear. Many a fond mother predicts a
professorship. or judgeship, or bishopric
for fayorite son, who, nevertheless,
sinks through the world among the crowd
OF unknown people. For all that, sundry
remarkable predictions have at various
times been uttered, which have come true,
and yet nothing miraculous has BEEN at
tributed to them.
Sulla said Of Caesar, when he pardoned
him at the earnest entreaty Of his friends:
You wish his pardon-I consent; but
know that t1ls young man, whose life you
SO eagerly plead for, will prove the most
deadly enemy of the party which you and
l have defended. There is in Caesar more
than Marius." The prediction was real
lied.
Thomas Aquinas was so unusually sim
pie and reserved in conversation that his
fellow students regarded him as a very
mediocre person, and jocularly called him
The Dumb OK of Sicily" His master,
Albert, not knowing himself what to think
took occasion one day, before large as
semblage, to interrogate him on several
very profound questions, to which the dis
ciple replied with so penetrating a sa-
gacity that Albert turned toward the
youths who surrounded his chair, and
said: You can brother Thomas a dumb
OK, but be assured that one day the noise
of his doctrines will be heard all over the
world
Erasmus wrote a composition at a'12
years old, which was read by a learned
friend of Hegius; and he was so struck
by its merit that he called the youth to
him and said, scanning him keenly: MY
boy, you Will one day be a great man.
Sully's father predicted of him, when
only y years old, that he would one day
be great by reason of his courage and his
virtues Had not the prophecy come true,
we had never heard of it. But Sully was
early put in the way of promotion, and
once in the road, the rest is compare
lively easy.
Cardinal Morton Archbishop of Canter-
bury, early predicted the future of Sir
Thomas More. Pointing to the boy one
day. he said TO those about him: That
youth will one day be the ornament of
England"
Cardinal Wolsey though a butchers
son, had an early presentiment of his fu-
ture emihence. He used to say that if he
could but once set foot at court, he would
soon introduce himself there. And scarce
ly had he obtained admission at court, the
possessor of a humble benehce, than he
did not hesitate TO say that 'henceforth
there was no favor to which ne dared
not aspire"
At IS, Gondi, afterward Cardinal de
Retz, composed certain "reminiscences of
early studies, on reading which, Richie
lieu exclaimed: Here's a dangerous fell
lowr
Marshal Turenne, in his early youth,
prophetically foretold the distinction in
arms to which he would rise. But doubt
less there are few youths who enter the
army full of ardor and courage who do
not prepare for themselves the career of
hero and conqueror.
Milton, in his early writings, fore
Swallowed his great poem, then not ma
tured in his mind. He declared his inten-
ton, many years before he commenced
his task, of writing some great poem for
posterity, which the world would not
willingly let de-
Bossuet, when a youth, was presented
to a number of prelates by one of the
bishops of his church. who said of him
when he had left: THAT young man who
has just gone forth will be one of the
greatest luminaries of the church."
Mazar1n early predicted the brilliant ca
reer of Louis XIV. He said of him: "He
has in him stuff for four kings" And at
another time: He may take the road a.
little later than others, but he will go
much further"
one day Mason named Barbe said to
Nine. de Maintenon, who was at that
time the wife of Scarron: after much
trouble, great king will love you; YOU
viii reign; but, although at the summit
OF favor, 1t will be of no benefit to you"
lie added some remarka bic details, which
appeared to cause her some emotion. Her
friends rallied her about the prediction
when the conjurer said to them, with the
air of man confident of the truth of what
ne said: You will be glad to kiss the
hem of her garment then, instead of
amusing yourself at her expense
On the other hand, Louis XIV one day
observed to Rochefoucauld and the Due
de Crequi: "Astrology is altogether false
L had my horoscope drawn in Italy, and
they told me that after having lived a long
time l would fall in love with an old wo-
man and love her to the end of my DAYS
Is there the least likelihood of that?' And
so saying, he burst out laughing. But this
did not, nevertheless, hinder him from
marrying Nine. de Maintenon when she
was 90 years old. So that both the pre-
dictlon of the Mason and that of the Ital-
ian conjurer came true at hast.
When Noltaire was engaged in the study
of classical learning. the Father Lejay was
once very much irrtated by the inso.ence
of his repartees, and taking him by the
collar shook him roughly saying:
"Wretched youth You will some day be
the standard of Deism in France" Father
Palu, Noltaire's cohfessor, did not less cor
rectly divine the future career of his young
penitent when he said of him, @This boy
is devoured by thirst for celebrity"
Sterne has told an anecdote of what hap
pened to him at Halifax. The schoolmas-
ter had got the ceiling newly whitewashed,
and the mschievous boy, mounting the
steps almost before the job was completed
daubed with a brush on the ceiling the
words, in capital letters, Tau Sterne."
For this the usher cruelty beat him. at
hearing of which the master expressed his
displeasure, and said, before Sterne, that
he would not have the name effaced, see
ing that Sterne was boy of genius. and
certain TO make a reputation in the world.
Many predictions were made respecting
Napoleon, about whose youth there must
have been something remarkable His
aged relative, the Archdeacon of Ajaccio.
when dying, said to the young Bonapartes
kneeling around his bedside to receive his
last blessing: You need not think about
the future of Napoleon; he will make it
himself. Joseph, you are the eldest of the
house, but Napoleon is the chief. Have a
care over his future" Not only his uncle
but all who knew Napoleon, predicted that
he would become an instrument for great
purposes. He was scarce 10 years old when
NJ. de Kergerion said: Il perceive in this
young man a spark which cannot be too
carefully cherished" And Paoli said Of
him: He is a man of Putarch's mold"
The rhetorcian Domarion described him
as a 'grarite-heated in a volcano" And.