New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-09
SERMONS ON PETER COOPER.
LESSONS DRAWN IN SEVERAL PULPITs.
THE DEAD PHILANTIIRoprsT's CHARACTER AND TX
AMPLE COMMENDED.


AMPLE COMMENDED.
Nearly every sitting in the Church OF the
Messiah, at Thrty-fourh-st and Park-ave was occu-
pied yesterday morning, when the Rev. Robert Cohyer
preached upon Peter Cooper The text for the sermon
was taken from Psalms xxxvIi 81 "Mark the perfect
man. and behold the uprght for the end of that man Is
peace" "The death OF dear old friend" Mr. Colyer
said not TO be really death 80 mucn as the
contamination and browning OF life which is oil so far
and perfect that think OF nothing more complete
1t like of those rare seasons when indian SUM-
mer fingers almost to Christmas and we wonder over
the sweet sunny days, like rich harmony Inre
with melody in farreacbiDg cadences which never treS
ma and which at last goes ont softly almost like adream
After speaking of the extreme length or Peter cooper
AT the fuaeral In All Souls Church Saturday He
wished speak OF the dead phiantbropss le ne sala
good life might DO sacred To his own congregr
ton.
PETER cooPERIsM BETTER THAN DYNAMITE.
THE kindness and patriotism OF Barzflla OF old, SHOWN
in King Davids behalf TO the Rev. Mr. Talmages
mind yesterday, suggestive OF Peter Cooper OF whom
he said Barza was type in the tenth century before
Christ Peter Coopers influence did not halt second
for his obsequies to finished but moving on For
such a death multiplication, not subtraction,
career His was grand influence for man who was
neither king, lord governor No title stuck TO nun
plain Peter Cooper. de was the father OF the many
American phanthropss whose gifts to the public were
old quarrel between capital and labor There were two
ways which 1T never would be settled-tne violent
tie labnring classes and the mareatmcnt
OF the rich Tls seemed TO be the of dynamite Inc
rich were becoming more arrogant ana the poor d %
Tamage "the largest kind OF alopatic doses OF Peter
Will Th Psa aot snS sss crave Ss
to-day implore God for the sanctihcation OF all the
wealth of this country"
THE GROWING JOY OF WEALTH.
Tie Rev X. Heber Newton devoted his sermon OF All
Ia, mis- ya3t
lesson to be derived from the life Of Peter Cooper taking
as his text words: 1T blessed to give than
to receive" "There is only one text for New-Yorker
to-day said he "and that is appropriate to the life Of
fled the spirit which Paul, next to Christ. embodied
Here q VINO. with all his physical strength, dis
and life. You have in him the picture Of a man who
cannot and will not be forgotten We sha never get
running themselves up today In the force of wealth.
but this Is preparatory to semethpg better Inc seea
the rage man OF to-day With II he can satisfy ms
e Ss s Tine se eas sesc Coming from
wealth Is consciousness OF power. Besides tns, IL
sres for education the arts For wealth
men, too slaves TO their families, aud many man
ply aborng for hts family until he drops the harness
The browning JOY OF wealth is in the service Of society
ceive' That IL the story OF Peter COopers life. Share
your pleasures and yon double them hold them TO
yourself and you starye them last saw Peter cooper
ut one OF the large meetings where he loved TO be-
Hard. around him; but never were
finer courtesy and Difference paid to man than 10 him
by those whose benefactOr he WAS by forgetting our
ana @ 5s ng e1Se 0I our old yea % be
sweet and beautiful those OF him who has passed
Tho JOY OF giving Is the supreme Denedcton Oh
the use OF money"
MR.. COOPER's TEXT OF TEXTS.
$50 many have lately passed away" said the Rev.
Charles H. Eaton his congregation in the Church OF
the Divine Paternity at Ffhaye. and Forty fifth st..
yesterday "and now one gone-Peter Cooper,
lbs. Irxfra ngrn aruxw
the scene witnessed streets yesterday saw
there rich who usually go to rich mems funerals
but saw poor and the laboring, who had left their
workshops and their work 10 stand hours In the rain TO
gain the church Rabbi declared yesterday
In the synagogue that Peter Cooper was jew that bis
was essentially Jewish character 1t will be declared
IN many churches to-day that his was essentially Chris
tian character IL an augury OF the unity OF
lgion; it is like Cooper who VIII make the union
possible Well he named Peter" after him OF old,
for IL was the warmth and love and enthusiasm
that animated both. The qualities that Peter Cooper
possessed were those that 80 10 constitute the
nobility. Tie first was Industry the source Of "a
nations strength is in Labor There was next Patriot
ISM; he lover OF his country. and he who loves
his country him all elements OF strength. There
Was lastly Philanthropy-lOy OF his fellow-man with
out which 40 LIE is noble Let me declare 10 you Coop
er's of texts: lie who loves dwells IN God and
God IN him.
HIS BROAD TOLERANCE AND CATHOLICITY.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, OF Boston, occu-
pied the pulpit Oh All NAuIcu, III
ave-. yesterday. For his morning sermon
he took as the text James 1, 27:
ure religion and indebted before God aud tie Father
is this TO visit the tanerless and widows IN their ac
ton, and keep himself unspOttsd from the world"
The preacher pointed out the contrast between re-
giosity and religion aud after giving Illustrations Of
the foruaties OF worshpthe indulgence Ill when alone
e could not better Illustration of his subject
than the way in which the community had regarded the
Lad Acknowledged that Mr.. Cooper man of pure
re gion. Ills broad tolerance and utter cathoclty TO
charged with relgiosity"
MR. CooPER's TIIEIsM.
The Rev. NJ X schermerhorn, at tho Third Unitarian
CThcisticl Church in Twentyeighth street. Broad
way, prefaced hs sermon last night with
an account OF recent conversations on theology
with the late Peter Cooper. lie sald This church
led into this broad and reyerent faith chiefly
through Peter Cooper Moro than ten years ago he
oOuraged ne TO teach the religion OF pure and simple
'The last public religious communication by
ME- Cooper Was AGO made He rO1 be THIS scb platform
read his evening. and to be disseminated through
the one Only Cod io Universal Father revealed by
Nature, by science ana by al the the greatest ,d
men should worship not presuming TO name
another with that OF the Heavenly Father
Mr. Cooper expressed his impatence with those
IdOatOrs who worship Jesus in the place oil, OF in
neotion with, Almighty God"
COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES AND REFERENCES
Special services commemorative OF tho life and
work Peter Cooper, held yesterday afternoon
the Masonic Tompe, Mt Twentythird-st and Sixthaye
under the auspices of the Manhattan Temperance
Association. The Rev. George j. Mngns said he loved
Peter Cooper because he q good citizen, liy-
ing with full realization OF that great
truth that men make the nation and not the nation men,
1t was the lie OF such man that the poor artisan loves
to contemplate aud whose loss they mourn. Daniel
Walton said he had given 81 to start subscription for
monument Peter Cooper 10 be erected IN front OF the
Institute. He asked every mechanic aud a6orer to fol-
low his example. Among the other speakers were the
Rev. Mr.. Tracy, OF Vineland. N. j., and w. Ii. II.
Bartram. 49,
Sermons and addresses the life the philanthropist
were made yesterday number OF other city churches
Among the cergymen who paid tribute Mr.. C0oper's
memory were the Rev. Drs. Thomas Armitage of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Churoh James NJ Pullman OF the
Church OF Our Saviour; and the Rev. George w Gala
CHER of the Fourth Unitarian Church In Brooklyn