Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-28
SPIRES or THE SPIRIT
The Secret
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chapsin OF the United States senate

History Is the story OF the
lure Of the secret. The sharp,
steep ascent of civilization
through peril, toll and pain
is the epic of man adventure
ing along the pathway OF
daring faith. Ever he has
sought the master key to
some secret. Man has wanted
the secret OF the earth, and
geology marks his progress.
He has sought the secret OF
the heavens. and astronomy
is the story Of that star
blazed way. The flower in the
crannied wall beckons him,
and we, have the wonders of
botany. All inventions. all
science, all discovery, all the
great exploits of the Tropics
and the Poles are the re-
Spouse OF man TO the chal-
lenge Of the secret. The
world would be a dull and
dead place were it not for
the divine mystery and min
istry of the secret. AS the
cave dweller peered from his
primitive shelter a thousand
treasures lay hidden in the
earth which was his home.
waiting for human hands to
find the doors and fashion
the keys that some hidden
glory might burst forth to
enrich the expanding domain
OF questing man.
The benefactors of man
kind have been those who
in triumph have held high
some discovery while the
victorious cry resounded.
Eureka! Eureka! I have
found it! / have found itp
That jubilant shout is just
now rending the air as the
Nautilus, gliding under the
polar icecap from the Pacific
to the Atlantic, finds the
; age-long- sought Northwest
ern Passage. Think of the
uncovered secrets revealed in
the life span of many still
living. There is the tele-
graph, the telephone, electric
light, the automobile, the ra-
dio, television, and the split
atom. The last-named dread
force has put into mans fall
lible hands the power to in
cinerate the planet and blast
into blackened ruins the
civilization so lahoriously
built. This same power, har.
messed for peace, can lift the
earth to a new physica
Utopia. And now man-madt
planets are in orbit anC
mans expectant face is peer.
ing into the vastness of thu
cosmos looking for othel
worlds to conquer.
On tiptoe, we listen for new
triumphal announcement
from the laboratories wher
scientists bend over ties
tubes. Our ears are CONSTANT,
attuned for the cry, I'VE hav
found it," What a glad da,
it will be. and God gran
that it may be near, whel
the sought-for breakthrougl
will put into human hand
the weapons to strike dow
the appalling specter of can
Ger and other deadly diseases
Then the 1--WE have founu
It'll" will be echoed from Ian
to land like a hallelujal
chorus. ...
Still, nature has her Sc
crets, and the secret of ma
ture is with them that fea
her-that is. with those VIII
approach her closed door
reverently. humbly. meekl!
In all realms the door of tn
secret swings open only t
those who come seeking an
knocking in that spirit. 1t
the meek who inherit tn
earth, here and now. Res
science is never a blatar
bulldozer: rather. it walk
with humble feet as it follow
= the trails across the veal
blazed by others and leadin
to new revelations and dis
coveries which bring ma
: ever nearer to the mandat
5 given by his Creator, &C
forth conquering and to cor
: quer. Have dominion"
But mans greatest COZ
quests are not in the physici
realm, but in the spiritus
It is to these achievement