New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-15
PrLPIT TRTBTTES TO HOLMES.
prsCorRsEs BY THE REV. DRs MAcARTHoH'
CoLLYER AND BANKS.

nrscor-Rsrs BY THE REV. DRs. MACARTHUR.
COLLYER AND BANKS.
For tho evening service yesterday at Calvary
Baptist Church in West Fifty-seventh-st tho
hymns were chosen from the writings or ohVer
Wendell Holmes. and Or. Robert > Macarthur
preached a sermon to his memory. Or. MacAr,nurs
text was from Zachariah. xiv. I: AT evening time
q shall he light" The sermon in part as
follows:
Never there more beautiful amf death Da than
sets on an October day. Never was there writer
haloved often long life is no blessing often the
aged like men left alone on an Island "hence
of Holmes long life continuous benedictlon
from God to him. and he was continuous 6ene-
s sneeTing 'S d" asked who reads American
book While he was asking this question ;hion
all the world should read among tnesee, were we're
,o9s Sae the centre Of this brilliant
galaxy Americas heart grows sad as she thinks
That the last OF the group has gone. Never before
and Puritan ancestry had LETT us impress , nor
Republc Protestant life and education alone
could give us such men ana writer's thes "e'e
worthy sons Of their sires.
Robert Collvers sermon yesterday morning at
the church Of the Messiah. In East Thirty-fourth-
ST. was also a tribute To Holmes. whom he knew
personally and loved. The text was from Colos-
SLAMS ~. a. The Beloved Physician" The SER
mon was in part follows:
IL is safe 70 say that name has been spoken
I'm the past week with ourer reverence ana love
than ;hat of Or. Oliver Wendell Holmes. the
beloved physician" In the New England that ne
loved so we'll and indeed everywhere that our
be uttered in the sOftest. most loving tones. he
was the man who could touch the springs or
laughter and Of tears, true humorlst IN the
hrOadest SENSE with never note or despair. /
think there is no service I'm our common christen.
dom this morning that will not be the more sacred
for a memorial Of him: much more therefore LOT
us CnitarIans OF whom he was one lie loved oln
Kings chapel till the last: the broad tenets or
our creed ever had his loyalty. II don't like, ne
ing negations When ! 20 10 church want 70
hear preacher who believes q great deai more
tban | do for need il all" He may not be the
greatest of our Of letters. though by popular
vote he was elected first among a posslDle forty
American immortals The question or his good
ness however is sure and AT least we may say
m. re- has rarely been merry. grave ana goou
and sweet n singer In plain-Song
The Rev Or. Louis Albert Banks delivered
discourse in the Hanson Place VI. h. Church,
BROOKLYN Sunday evening. on "Oliver Wendell
Holmes and His Poems of the Soul" mo mans
writing" he said in the course of his lecture.
was more naturally and simply the bubbling over
of his inner self than that OF Holmes. whether IN
poetry or prose. What great thing IL has been
FOR public righteousness in this country that all
our greatest poets. and indeed our great litera-
tours of every kind. have been men OF pure white
character: men true and loving TO their brother
men and bowling reverently 10 the laws OF Goa:
men whose lives pure and sweet ana ira.
grant OF goodness the noble songs they sang