 Hughes has noted "that shortly before his [Brewer's] death in 1956 he recalled, 'I have never even voted in my life'" (186).Lipscomb had been a lifelong pacifist, even during the Civil War, yet Brewer believed that the threat of Communism was simply too great to ignore.Brewer therefore balanced his disengagement from the ways of the world with his active concerns for the Christian identity of American politics.