Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings

1899 Mendes, H[enry] Pereira (1852-1937). Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings. New York: F. Tennyson Neely. Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. The author's name is sometimes given as Pereira Mendes. MoU-St, PSt

Struggle among all religions for control of holy places with arguments for each religion and a decision by a council giving them to the Jews. In the buildup to the conclusion an Anglo-Saxon Confederation of the British Empire and Canada and the U.S. is formed with a federal constitution based on that of the U.S. Also, a document was drawn up by Christians and Jews that established the basis for the eutopia to come. The author was an Orthodox rabbi and an advocate of Zionism, and he is described on the title page as the Pastor of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, New York City. He also published The Sphere of Congregational Work. Essay read at the Conference of Jewish Ministers of New York and neighboring states, Shebat 5645, and substantially repeated before the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, New York City, Adar 5645. New York: Phil. Cowen, Printer, 1885 in which he argues that there are three purposes to congregational work, to provide services, to educate, and to humanize. The second and third resonate with utopianism but not particularly with his novel.