The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-11
RxLr4Iox IN TEE rWENTTErH CKx.
TURF.
Views and Predictions Of . Justice OF the
United states supreme Court.

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United states supreme Court.
From re Wd,h,retor PssL
Associate Justice Brewer. OF the Supreme
Court OF the United States. spoke last night In
the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church.
His subject was The Twentieth Century from
Another Viewpoint" A large audience lis
tened to the scholarly discourse.
In these closing hours Of the nineteenth
century many are Specializing rs to the TWEEN
tie,h. said Justice Brewer. 1T Ia the theme
OF many a discourse. On every hand We hear
prophecies OF greatness ana glory or Of dlsaster
and gloom.
The future Ia q sealed book. whose myster-
les no man can read With the assurance which
comes OF after events. The sra OF prophecy
has passed. And yet the lamp OF the past casts
some light into the future. We may discern
the signs OF the times. We may perceive the
trend OF human eve nts. And first | predict
that the twentieth century will be noted for
greater unity In Christian life. Tit present
century has been one OF UNCONVENTIONAL rivalry
and strife. The next will be one OF Christian
unity. II IL not unworthy OF notice that the
ancient enemies. Catholicism and Protestant
ism. arc drawing closer together. The prelates
and members OF the two churches do not hesl-
tnte to affiliate in a thousand forms OF labor.
THE m is past when the Protestant should
look back upon the horrors OF the Inquisition.
and denonncs Roman Catholicism on %account
iipost back x at in the ehbt urnins o ~ the the W SiuSl .a or i;hs
prosecution OF the Quakers. and denouncc
protestantism therefor. but each should shake
hands ana loin In a common effort to further
the cause OF a common Master.
again | predict that the com ng century
viii be noted for greater economy In Christian
work. Consolidation has become one OF the
significant iae.s Of commercial enterprise;
There is In this. 4 nothing else. a means OF
greater esSonony. The nations are feeling the
soirit. The small States are consolidatinR
into large ones. Russia. France. and England
ara reaching out the crashing hand to appro-
PIRATE 10 them elves t%srritory, all oyer tho
world: and II this continues along the same
line. II Is not unreasonable to EXPECT that the
coming century will see the world with but
hall q dozen. or such a matter, OF great nations.
within whose territory and subject TO whose
dominion are all. the races and peoples OF the
earth. We must learn to do business as ths
business man does. He eliminates every UNI
Again, / think the twentieth century will de-
velop a clearer recornition, OF what religion is.
and bow is growth can be most surely pro-
noted. Whether evolution he IN all rec ,rcoi,
SC entitcally true. II Ia true that civilization is
rrogressi.e. Humanity has been steadily
barbarism TO the present heights Of civili,a-
ton, No century hns witnessed such advance
As the present Looking back ward on the
features. One is the struggle about creeds..
Taking the declaration that he that be-
lieveth shall be saved. and he that belisyeth
not is condemned already. the necessity of be-
lief and what TO believe has been among the
great thoughts Of the eighteen centuries. Asa
place and value. The clearer. the stronger.
and the more profound ones convictions the
more earnest and jealous he Is apt to be. But
something more than creed " essential TO
religion. II ia not n question OF intellectual
advancement so much MS one OF moral growth.
SO relte on that spends itself In creeds. and
does not ripen into character and the richness
OF u pure and lovely life is like n barren fg
tree-Coyerpd with leaves. bur f~ruitless.
SO | look, in tha coming century. 10 see not
merely n clearer conception o" the Fundamental
truths-a putting behind ia as OF little signiti-
canoe the m nor differences Of creed and doc
trine-but also a keener and more lust appre-
citation OF the means by which alone humanity
can become II 10 enter the new Paradise which
one day shall dawn upon the earth