Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-09

mite under the Kremlin. Dynamite in
proximity to Parliament House and rail-
road track. Dynamite near londly man
sions. Dynamite in Ireland. Dynamite In
England. Dynamite in America The rich
are becoming more exclusive and the poor
more hate. I prescribe for the cure OF this
mighty evil of the world large allopathic
dose Of Peter Cooperism. You never
heard Of dynamite in Cooper. 1nsti:
any one searching that mans house for
keg Of dynamite. At times of p1blie eI.
citenent when prominent mer had their
houses guarded there were no sentinels
needed at his door. The poorest man with
hod on his shoulder. carrying brick mp .
wall begrudged not the philanthropist his
carrisge as he rode by. No one put the
torch TO Peter Coopers glue factory. When
on some great popular occasion the masses
assembled in the hall Of Cooper Institute.
and its founder came on the platform.
in vigorous applause. Let the rich stretch
forth toward the great masses Of England,
Ireland and America as generous and kind
hand as that OF Peter Cooper and the age
OF dynamite will terminate. What
police cannot do and shot and shsllaannot
do and stringent lave aevsrsly Axacnted
cannot do and armies cannot do, viii yet
be accomplished by something that see
fit this morning to baptize - Peter Cooper
ism. hail the early twilight OF that day
when man OF millions shall come forth
and say: There are 10000 destitute chill.
dren in New York and here put up and
endow out Of my fortune whole line OF
institutions to take care OF them" Here
are vast multitudes in filth and unventi.
lated tenement houses for whom ! will
build whole block OF residences at cheap
rents" Here are nations without Christ
and turn my fortunes inside out TO send
them
Flaming Evangels."
"There shall be no more hunger and no
more sickness and no more ignorance, and
no more crime il | can help IT," That
spirit among the opulent of this country
and other countries would stop contention.
And the last incendiarys torch would be
extinguished and the last dagger OF assas.
sination would so to slicing bread for poor
children, and the last pound OF dynamite
that threatens death would go to work In
auarries 10 blast foundation stones for
asylums and universities and churches.
May the spirit Of William r.. Dodge and
Peter Cooper come down on all the bank
stock and government securities and rail
road companies and great business houses
Of America.
Again this Barzillai OF the 10th century
shows us a more sensible way OF monu.
mental and epitaphal commemoration. IL
is natural TO want to be remembered. Ii
would not be pleasant thought to US, or
to any one, to feel that the moment you
are out Of the world you would be forgot.
ten. IL the executors OF Peter Cooper
should build on his grave monument that
would cost so 900, 90 il would not so well
commemorate him as that monument at
the junction OF Third and Fourth Avenues
How few people would pass along the silent
sepulchre as compared with those great
tides that will ebb and flow around Cooper
Institute in the ages to GENE. Ot the tens
of thousands TO be educated there, will
there be one so stupid as not to know who
built il, and what great heart he had, and
how he struggled TO achieve fortune, but
always mastered that fortune and never
allowed the fortune to master him2 What
is a monument OF Aberdeen granite beside
a monument OF intellects,,and souls? What
is an epitaph OF a few words cut by sculp.
torss chisel, beside the epitaph OF coming
generations and hundreds writing his
praise?
But notice also that the longest life path
has terminus.
What Gauntlet 20 Rua
ments OF ninety.two years. II seemed as
il this man would live on forever. His
life reached from the administration OF
George Washington to that OF President
Arthur. But the liberal hand is closed
and the besming eye is shut and the world
enCompassing heart is still. When he was
at my home felt | was entertaining a
king. But the king is dead and we learn
that the largest volume Of life has its last
chapter. its last paragraph and its last
worl. What are ninety.two years COM
pared with the live hundred thousand mil
lion years which open the first page OF the
great future. For that let us be ready.
Christ cime TO reconstruct us for usefulness,
happiness and heaven. | know not the
minutial OF Peter Cooper's religious opin-
ions. Some men are worse than their
creed and some are better. The grandest
profession OF Jesus Christ is q life devoted
10 the worlds elevation and bettermen..
A man may have membership In all the
orthodox churches OF Christendom and yet
IL he be mean and selfish and careless about
The worlds condition he is no Christian,
while on the other hand, though he may
have many peculiarities Of belief II he live
for others more than for himself, he Is
Christ-like, and think he must be Chris
tian. But let US remember that the great.
est philanthropst OF the ages was Jesus
Chri,t and the greatest charity ever known
vas that which gave not its dollars. but It's
blood, for the purchase Of the worlds de.
lyeranCe. Sanding in the shadow OF Peter
COOpers death, ! pray God that all the re-
sources Of America may be cOnsecrated.
We are coming on 10 times OF prosperity
that this country never imagined. Per-
hsps here and there q few years Of recoil or
set BACK, but God only can estimate the
Ia h tI,af IL nh IN ha n
This Nation Between five years ago when
| visited the South and my recent visit
there has been change for the better that
amounts to resurrection. The ChattahoO-
cbee is about TO rival the Merrimac In man.
ufsctures, and
The whole sonth
is being filled with the dash OF water wheels
snd the rattle Of spindles. Atlanta has sl.
ready 5000. 900 invested In manufactures.
The South has gone out OF politics into
business. The West, from its inexhaustible
mines, is go ng 10 disgorge silver and gold
and pour the treasures all over the nation.
May God sanctify the coming prosperity OF
the people. The needs are as awful ss the
0pulence is 10 be threatened. In 1880 there
were 10000 people over ten years OF age
in the United States that could not read,
and over 9 OOO OJJ who could not write. and
nearly 100000 of the voters. We want
5000 Cooper Institutes and churches in.
Vulnerable and just one revival Of relig ion,
but that reaching from the st. Lswsence 10
Key West and from Barnegot Lighthouse
10 The Golden Gate. We can all be some.
where felt in the undertaking. ] like the
sentiment and the rythm OF some anoDy-
NOUS poet who wrote:
When am dead and gone
And the mold upon my breast,
Say not that he did well or i'll,