Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
ADDRESSES MEMS CLUB
JUSTICE BREWERS TALK ON
GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

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Brewer Of the Supreme Court of tie United
States, Senator Clupp or Minnesota and AS
sistant Secretary Of the Interior Wilson.
Mr.. Leonard Gafvey, tie PRESIDENT of the
club. introduced Mr.. Justice Brewer, who
had accepted an ilv.tltioa to deliver an ad-
dress. His theme WAS Good Citizenship, "
and he spoke. in part, as follows:
1T is one of the weaknesses. and yet one
OF the comforts of youth. that it does not
wholly realize the responsibilities of living
The young lock forward on life as some
thing reaching far into TIE distance. r.eh IN
beautiful experiences, crowned with joys
and successes. Life has its vast range
| from highest joy to deepest sorrow and
the responsibilities of living reach in tie
one direction as much as in the other.
Life Is not mere collection of frivoif-
ties nor long routine of moaning and
sorrow, but mass of varied experiences.
each teaching its own lesson and together
fashioning the charac.er we take with us
into the great hereafter Therefore, take
ii neither fippan;ly nor sadly. but earnest
ly, as something given to us to be made use
of beth for self and others.
ut Is one of the pleasures of youth that
its pictures of tire future are visions of
beauty. Every young man and young
woman has day dreams. as we say, builds
air castles. and thinks of all that is coming
as filed with joy. You would be reluctant
to disclose these visions to others; you
called practical men would smile at the
folly of many of them.
Visions of Purity.
well, one thing is sure: in all these
visions there is purity No young man or
young woman. in his or her day. dreams. in
his or her picture of the future, behoids a
life of crime or shame. 1t is to them some
thing good and true and pure 1t is unfor-
tunate. 1t Is sad. that as the young grow up
into manhood and womanhood and mingie
in business and society; In the strifes and
tolls Of the world. so many OF these bright
visions pass away.
I'm standing before an audience of the
young In this country one cannot but real
ize that he is talking to those who are the
makers of his eountrys destiny. In
monarchy, where there Is some hereditary
ruler who manages all the affairs of state,
determines the policy of the nation. the
great masses have comparatively little in
f1uence. But here we are all rulers, and we
who find the silver hair coming onto our
heads know that we soon shall pass away
and the young men come forward to work
out the destiny Of the nation. There Is no
one of us but loves his country: no one but
looks upon its past history with pride;
glorfes In the fact that he is an American
citizen. and glorying in that fact. looks
forward to the future of the nation in the
faith and the hope that that future will
be even grander and more magnificent
than Its past. We see today the wonder
full things which have been accomplished
and We dream what will be- Now the
young. realizing that the welfare of this
nation is part of their duty and one OF
their responsibilities in life, must certainly
wish that those things shall prevail which
make for its highest good
Alien Appeals to God.
did you ever stop to think that every
alien who comes to our shores and Is nat
uralized appeals to Almighty God? SO
help me. Cod is the close of every oath
taken by witnesses by officials and by per-
sons seeking citizenship. Wills commence
In the name of God. Amen The consti-
buttons of the several states and of the
United States provide that when a bill is
handed to the executive 1t shall become a
law unless returned by him within a GER
tain number of days, Sundays excepted
II Is wonderfully true that all through
the official and organic life of the nation
from the first to the present time has run
the thought of Christianity"
In the dark hour which fell upon us
when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
what wonderful inspira ton there came as
Garfield stood before a great audience In
New York and declared God reigns and the
government at Washington still lives.
But l must not weary you with any de-
tail of evidence, but II you will take time
to examine our history YOU will become
more and more impressed with the truth of
what / have said. With that as a basis l
come to you young men and young women,
saying, you love this country, you find that
one of the things which has made for the
best in it's past is the religion of Christ.
VIII you not, therefore, If you want that
which will be for the best in the future, do
what you can to make that religion uni
versal, more powerful reaching all ranks
OF life and touching at every point all the
forces of the nation?
Peace in the Far East
ut was this nation. through its great
chief executive, that stepped into that ter
rible struggle between Russia and Japan
and peace came. If the thought of peace,
II the generous spirit which makes one re-
greet the warfare of neighbors, had not pos
sessed him. if he had folded his hands and
said Let Russia and Japan fight II OUT
that war would still be raging. So as you
put more and more of the spirit of Chris
tianity into this nation into the lives of its
citizens. for they are its rulers, you are
touching humanity all around the world.
You. of course, are familiar with the
events which followed the shooting of
President Mckinley. He lived after it sew
eral days Finally he was advised by his
physicians that recovery was impossible
that he must die. There man vino
had been for years in public life. many
terms in Congress, governor of the great
state of Ohio. President of the United
States for one full term and just entering
| cess his; popular among his fellow country
men and wonderfully loved by them. In
| that dark hour, when death was approach
| ing. did he talk about his presidential Office,
| of his successes in life, of the name he was
| going to leave in history? Not word. His
| poor feeble wife. invalid for years. was
| by his bedside. and that which came from
| his lips were the words of that beautiful
| hymn Nearer. My God, to Thee
''The other day President Roosevelt re-
| turned from Oyster Bay. his country home,
| to Washington. His vacation. so called,
| had been filled with great achievements.
| He had been instrumental In bringing Japan
and Russia together, and they had signed
| a treaty of peace. Cares manifold had been
| his. His neighbors and friends who had
| known him from early manhood. gathered
| around him. Did they shout and cheer as
| he went away? Did they cheer for the
| treaty? Not at all. They gathered round
| him as the train was waiting TO start and
| sang that hymn of DIR. Rankins. God Be
| With You Till We Meet Again
CHAPTER OF FIRES.
Firemen Kept Busy Despite Bad
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