Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-31
SUPREME COURT PRESENT
Life and Services Of Jurist Eulo-
gized by DR.. Woodrow.
WORKED FOR FELL0W-MEN
Body to Be Taken to Leavenworth
for Burial, on Train Depart
ing This Afternoon.

| The last rites for Justice David j.
| Brewer of the Supreme Court of the
United States were performed at the
home, 1923 18th street northwest, at ]
i O'Clock today.
| Gathered to do honor to the memory OF
| the great jurist was a group of the most
distinguished persons in the country In
cluding President and Mrs. Taft, Ambas.
sador Bryce, the Chief Justice and asso
ciate justices of the United States Su.
preme Court. Secretary Knox, Secretary
Nagel. Attorney General Wickershaw, So
licitor General Bowers. the House and
Senate committees on judiciary, the en-
tire congressional delegation from Kansas
and members OF the District courts.
The members of the Supreme Court
were pallbearers. The services were con-
| Quoted by Rev Samuel II. H.Woodrow, pastor
of the First Congregational Church, with
which Justice Brewer was for many years
closely identified. He was assisted by
Rev. S. M. Newman, former pastor OF
| the church.
Eulogy by DR.. Woodrow.
| DR.. Woodrow pronounced euIogy OF
| the life and character Of Justice Brewer.
He said in part:
Twenty years ago when Justice Brew
er united with the First Congregational
Church it was celebrating it's twenty-fifth
anniversary. He delivered an address on
that occasion, the keynote of which was
duty. The faithful performance of duty
means work, and along that path lies
growth and strength. He closed the ad-
dress with quotation from the poet:
g i live for those who love me,
For those who know true,
For the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my coming, too.
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance.
For the future in the distance
And the good that may do
These words disclose the secret Of his
power. Strength and growth were not
some magical gift. but the result of duty
faithfully performed, work courageously
undertaken and successfully completed.
His whole character, life and work were
a striking illustration of this truth.
But underneath the performance of
duty, that often seems hard and barren,
there was the sweetness of poetic insight
and the power of The eternal principles
Of religion. Duty is the granite ledge,
poetry is the flowers that bloom above
1t. but underneath ledge and flowers is
the eternal power and purpose of God.
- live for those who love me,
For those who know me true.
HOW lhdt ennODieS, purlf1eS and sweet
ems all earthly labor. Work for those
who love US and who know us true. But
this of itself might leave us prisoners in
a Iow-vaulted past We neew some
thing higher and holier for which to live.
For the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my coming, too
Justice Brewer lived and worked for
that ever widening circle Of those who
loved hinH but he lived also in the light
OF the heaven that smiled above him. and
toward which he was travelling on.
Then there comes the note of action:
= For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance.
Where was there good cause that
needed assistance from which Justice
Brewer ever turnd away!
Interested and working as its president
In behalf of the Associated Charities be-
cause it was theirs TO minister to the
poor. the unfortunate, the outcasts of our
city.
"A vice president and working all his
life in the American Missionary Associa-
ton because it had for its work the ele-
vation Of all the backward races of our
land.