New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08
THE ADDRESS by MR. CoLLYER.


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THE ADDRESS by Mr.. COLLYER.
The Rev Mr.. Collyer thea spoke rs follows:
We gather about the OF dear friend to-day ana
thank God for his lfe trust more than we mourn his
death who are not bound to him by the tender ties OF
kinship aud the home TO find JOY in our sorrow IKE the
ov in harvest and to say him what he never felt free
IN say for after all these years Of noble striving
He has fought 90 fight he has finished his course
he has kept the faith and has proven himself workman
who necdeth be ashamed now that the long days
work is done 10y pureness by knowledge, by KIND
ness by love untegned, by word of truth 10y the power
of God and by the of righteousness on the right
hand and on the left he has such reverence as Il
seldom won by any man in his own lifetime
The man whose home more sacred shrine than
any church we can name cIty, whose presence in
these later years where most eager to be about
their business brought courtesy and Difference OF air
akin 10 that they used to show in the old time to princes
and whose name was held DEAR in the hamlets of
misery and SIM and spoken know, b. the poor
EST ana most forOrn with tenderness which Is seldom
fear "a he went about our streets because the very
roughs had become his guardians ana WouG nave aieh
INTO ranks about him III any danger and held their lives
I'm pawn for his safety; whose Whte head Was lhureh
and whose presence wherever he went lay
like bar sunshine across dark and troubled day 80
faces and send Of sweet laughter ripping from
heart in moment OF time ns II they were say
inc who looked ON him " II cannot be 90 hard world
az we Thought il was since Peter Cooper stays ia 10
give it his benediction.' The man whose sihp"os
speech in the Institute, touched with the he7itahey p
more than four reand-tcn years. went 10 the heat
more poenty than the choicest elcQuence OF other men,
and could never have been matched To his oFers anu
friends, by any speech OF monarch rom his throne ana
who-a blessings rest on him for that entered a.
sweetly into the enjoyment OF IT. and the Joy we
did who heard him. and yet never through tue spirit
which furnishes such speech now and then ~ our g<it
hencfactors and creates the suspicion that they may -t
be proud OF their humility when they have shorn them
selves OF al other pridg, 1It onlouSn ,hT I HIN
native 10 his heart and claspng the latest years with
the earliest, compelled us all to say OF fuch Is the
Kingdom Of heaven"
WHY MR. COOPER WISHED To LIVE,
In talk we had together few months ago, be said:
4 should live three or four years longer II may
and finish up bits Of work that are sin ia my
hands bat If may not live long, 1 should be quite
content to g. when my time comes for have had very
long and happy lie" and cannot believe there Is
IN the world who. hearing what | nave heard. Womb
not have said what lay in my own heart: " orr love
and longing 10 have you stay WIN us cOud poohg your
life to last day of your desire not Tor yOur SAKE
alone for the work you want sii TO DO hit That you
may just sta among US ana remain our choicts,
ample OF beautiful old age-then you should i've IoI
this to me now. was the best lo those VINO
knew him bestl that Peter Cooper tina; beautiful
The spiendid force you elder remember by which
he WIS able Il rOld his against al corners almost
vr sipce the century came in was there no longer or
the far-seeng sdgacity Iernap or the swh intuition
we may well call genius or the patience or tue tnddr-
ance ike heart OF oak. The strong man bowed 10 the
ineviale torch of time the silver lo0-cd and
the golden bowl breaking. We oil ate aware how
The earthly tabernacle of this house dssolyng year
Inv year Bal the lovely inner light shOno through with
such pure and gentle radiance that found 1t hard TO
Imagine how l,e would have him other than hc was at
tonr.score-and- twelve lie brought back 10 my memory
when would him that good apostle Eliot who, when
he very Old man, ana friend ask'd nun now ne
Jared said My understanding is not What 10 was SOM
years ago, and my memory fails me li'tie ana my
speech, but thank God my cnaHty hods OUT wen ana
grows he might have sad. and Tor ihis we loved
him, that when the good Whte mead sayc onl niue
he seered mOr and more by me neart is love Tor our
human kind never failed or bi. concern FOR Vs. OF MS
faith in the teeth of all disaster He 70 many men
what good poet was TO one Wh" "heh "a Tl'hd Hhld
TO him. "Ahy do you let that person trouble your an
swercd. simply because there Is no "e man or tue
Garth that know OF that he to-" This, think,
was why we loved him most dearly AZ the last not for
ple and sunny hearted il was such beautiful old age
il was as when you watch the SHOWS ing thick above
hooks we know Of and hear the birds singing summer
songs the copsc II was such beautiful old eec and
We knew hid not come To him by swift Invasion OF
heaven the last but was the npcning of h aiih and
/ his being.
TIE TEMPTATIONS OF OLD AGE.
! He vas tempted, doubt, all who have
seen much Of ufe to the vesfurc % linked steel
| der the merchants garb and tho gauntlet under the
silken gIove-to grow little harder lie grew older,
ami more scant OF faith in the life and the new
neto see good only in the first quarter OF hi. long
span Of years and evil only the lat. md 10 set
the dust oil the grandfather MAN on me prom
Use OF the grlndson, These The temptations Of old
age. They glanced way from TIE gentle ara believing
heart and harmed him more than they uIru the ren
saints No need 10 tell him. as the years came on that
/ good in orr growing old lie could tell you that; you
could not tell him 70 he won the treasure thc chocest
last for what he had dOIo than tor what hc the good
Old With the near o. iitir child might nIl N
/ scf seeking might impose on him, but We know they
| @r@at good heart was like a fun honrycomb. You
needed but touch It and 1t forth treasures %
fnI Let us remember that today with great tender
pride it IN our heart We Should forget our
own gospels some oi US ~ ihese tmes did not men ke
our friend read TO us The lessons for the day and
he. Oclmg dead, yet speaEeth.
love to think again, prepare 20 bear his dust to
the burial, Of his absolute ana lifelong integrity Here
| Was n man Whose word divine TO him that his
bond became memoIahduh. Johnson shld OF great
nobcnan his time he was 50 true 10 his word that II
land tnt year he would send O Denmark for ncOrn
rather break the promise and slip excuse In the
word that he spoke also spirit aud lfe. II Is
scyentyive years since ne went INTO business on M
temptation toward new adventures which IA nj the
| coffin holy and undefled AZ a merchant aud of
business. he never made promise touching those things
on which the commonwealth must rest and turn which
he aid not keep, II bat the worth of He
was one that superb Of who have lifted this
city into the foremost place OF commerce. in this New
World and one of the fathers after the spirit Of those
who must maintain it, Look well at the venerable face.
you must MI these places when am dead and gone:
here lies a who never owned dollar he burst not
take up to the great white throne and II have got
the heart Of his starry never owed dollar he could not
pay who could give like prince / going 10 say,
but cannot remember the prince set beside him. aud
who gave meaning to the great discourse OF old
touching temperance, righteousness and Judgment To
| come.
TINES or TRIAL
reckon seven Judgment days In his long career az
man of business They all suddenly like thief ia
the night. They swept thousands Of able merchants
away like the drftwood before a flood. He stood firm
with those OF you lke-minded and hke-heared He was
the living oak whose roots deep and far out To the
last leaf the branches The fine strong brain could
not be the steady could not be-
yaded the quiet heart could be disturbed
he ia Cod because trustworhness lay within his
own nature. He was temperate and right, since he
might otherwise have maintained the integrity We
are proud OF look for the time.
IL said that Numa In the early days Of Rome built
temple To Faith, and appointed worship therein that
might learn not 10 deceive other but 10 speak and
act honestly This city such q temple 10 dear
dead friend.
love 10 remember again the wisdom which lay within
his noble gift to city and our land The grain o
regret we about much OF the giving for great
nhieefs In time Is that the yer shonld only have