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YO’E.'Y B.Y.
EASY TO SAY.
’Tis easy to say: “Be brave! be strong!”
When the tides of trouble run swift along,
And tlie blackest of clouds obscure the sun
Ere yet the covered prize is won.
’Tis easy to say: “Now show your pluck!
And hope to-morrow for betterluck!”
But hard to walk on tlie slanting deck
Of a ship that's suffered a total wreck.
’Tis easy to say: “Forget' forgive!”
We hear it often eacli day We live;
A Ghrist'an’s duty—but, oh, how few
But find it a difficult thing to do!
’Tis easy to say another might
Have conquered in an unequal fight;
But were we fated his foes to meet
We might have suffered a worse defeat.
’Tis easy to say “I know how far
1 can go" in folly’s descending car;
But easily, easily down we drop
Until death gives the command to stop.
’Tis easy to say we would not yield
A single point on the battle-field;
But though a hero we may admire.
The courage with us may not stand fire.
Brave words are easy enough to say;
Brave deeds, however, will win the day.
And tlie strongest heart may its owner fail,
Though well protected by coat of mail.
If weak or strong, when put to tlie test,
He does his duty who does his best.
And finds each day—it is sad hut true—
That easy to say lias been hard to do.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BV REV. T. DeWTTT TALMAGE
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Peter Cooper the Philanthropist.
‘Now Barzillai was a very aged man,
even four score years old; and lie had pro
vided the king of sustenance while lie lay
at Mahanaimjfor lie was a very great man.”
—ll, Samuel, 19, 32.
Baizillai of the text was a very old
man, a very kind man, a very affection
ate man, a very patriotic man, a very
wealthy man of the tenth century be
fore Christ, suggestive of our modern
philanthropist Peter Cooper, of the
nineteenth century after Christ. And
so there has been many a man in the
centuries 13. C. typical of some men in
the centuries A. J). When I see this
Barzillai of the text going out to meet
David’s retreating army and provide
them with flour and corn and mat
tresses, it makes me think of our mod
ern philanthropist who was always
ready to make response in time of neces
sity, whether it were individual, muni
cipal or national. The snow of his
white locks has melted from our sight,
and the benediction of his genial face
has come to its long amen; but his in
fluence, halting not a second for the
obsequies to be finished, moved righl
on with no charge save that of augmen
tation, for in tho arithmetical sum of a
useful life death is multiplication in
stead of subtraction, and the marble of
the tomb, instead of being the goal at
the end of the race, is only the starting
point for a grander career. Why so
many good people with hat off in rev
erence before a man who never wielded
a sword, or made masterly oration, or
stood in Senitorial place? lie was
neither general, nor lord, nor Governor,
nor President. The learned title of
LL. 1). bestowed by a university did
not stick to him one minute. The pre
fix of “Mr.” and the suffix of “Esq.”
seemed always an incongruity when
connected with his name. For all
Christendom he has been, and for all
ages to come he will be, plain Peter
Cooper. But why all the flags at half
mast? . And why the complimentary
resolutions of Legislatures and Com
mon Conucils? And why a deep-fetch
ed sigh from millions of hearts which
cannot make adequate expression of'
their grief?
First, 1 remark in answering these
questions: Peter Cooper was tho father
of many American philanthropies'—
Tliero have been large donations for
the public good since his great muni
ficence of 1857. but that great gift of
Cooper institute has brought forth
scores and hundeds of philanthropies
and charities all tho land over. Asa
father may have six children, all of
whom shall grow up to be larger than
himself, so that mutiificiehce of 1857
lias brought forth buudreds and thous
ands of charities,, some of them larger
in bulk than the original. You must
remember when that six-storied temple
of instruction on Third and Fourth
avenues was built at an expense of
$630,000, and then endowed with
$150,000 more;, yon must remember
that in those days SIOO,OOO was more
i hati $500,000 now, and while in our
days millionaires are so common vve
hardly stop to look at them, you must
remember that in those times a million
aire was a rare spectacle. Why,
Stephen Girard and John Jacob Astor
of olden times would almost have ex
cited the sympathy of our modern rail
road magnates* The well on to SBOO,-
000 expended in building and endowing
Cooper Institute were more than $5,-
000,000 now. There have been largei
gifts in our time which .have not pro
duced more than a fractiou of the good
produced by that munificence of 1857.
That gift brooded other charities, that
beneficence mothered hundreds of edu
cational institutions, that generosity
gave glorious suggestions to many a
man whose fortune was held with iron
grip of selfishness. If you should trace
back the ancestral line of many of the
hospitals ami infirmaries, and colleges
and universities and benevolent insti
tutions of this country, yon would find
that Peter Cooper was their glorious
progenitor. 0! how this shines out
in contrast with much that we see in
our day. That institution there, stand
ing twenty-six years on the groat thor
oughfare, saying to the populations
surging to and fro; “Here 1 stand,
without money and without price to
bless and educate all the struggling
who will como under my wings.” That
institution standing for twenty-six
years, from all its windows crying out
agaiust miserliness and cupidity That
free reading-room, the birthplace of
hundreds of free reading-rooms all over
America. Great reservoir of Christian
beneficence—Cooper’s institute.
Mr. Cooper has also—-Peter Cooper
has also impressed us all with the fact
that it is a very wise thing for a man
to become his own executor. How
much more beautiful is ante-mortem
charity than post-mortsm benevolence.
There is many a man who has kept hit
money as long as he could keep it, and
then when he had to die he has made
some charitable institution a legatee.
Many a maii has kept his money just
as long as he conjd keep it, and then
when death met him, said: “Well, if
1 must, I must, and now, Bible society,
you take so many thousands, and re
forniatory institution, you take so
many thousands.” The fact is, if that
man had had tour or five stout pockets
in his shroud he would have taken all
his wealth with him. Better late than
never to be charitable, but greater will
be the reward of that man who gives
to charitable institutions while he has
the power to retain what he is giving
away. It seems to me that often a
donation in a last will and testament
is merely an attempt to bribe the ferry
man of the river Styx to land the man
in celestial instead of internal regions.
Mean as sins while he lives, he expects
to cross over and bo ushered up the
shing banks of heaven. A skinflint,
sviieu he leaves this world, expects to
be hailed on the other shore as a George
Peabody. Besides that, how often it
is that charitable contribution in last
will and testament fails to reach its
right destination. If you have pride
ui being a sane man, and if you are at
the same time desirous of making char
itable contribution, make the contribu
tion before your death, for the proba
bility is your heirs will prove you are
crazy. Iluw of.en is it that an estate
is taken into the surrogate’s court and
there is a great quarrel over the matter
and as every positive man has some
idiosyncrasies, your idiosyncrasies will
be taken out, and they will bo venti
lated and they will be enlarged and
they will be caricatured until the courts
of Brooklyn and New York will pro
nounce you a fool, lf a man have a
second wife the children of the first wife
will prove in the courts that the man
was subjected to undue influence, and
many a man who when he made his
will had more brain than all his chil
dren over will have, has been pronounc
ed after death to have been lit for the
lunatic asylum. Be your own executor,
like Peter Cooper Do not let charit
able institutions be chiefly indebted for
your last sickness and death. Better
like Peter Cooper to walk through the
halls you have built by your beneficence
and see young men whom you have
educated by your charity and get tlie
sublime satisfaction of your generosity.
I am not surprised to read that the
Barzillai of my text lived to be eighty
years of age. He stood in the perpet
ual sunshine of his own generosity. 1
am not surprised that our modern Bar
zillai lived to ninety-two years of age.
He felt the reaction of his helpfulness
for others. Doing good was one of the
strongest reasons for his longevity.
There is great excitement in a chase,
and many an old hunter’s heart has
throbbed at the crying of the hounds;
but there is one kind of chase that is
very exhausting and that is deathfnl
Many a man with a large fortune be
hind him has called up all his vast
dollars as a pack of hounds to go out
with him and hunt up one more dollar
before he dies. Away, away, the old
hunter and all tho hounds. Hotter
and hotter the chase. Closer on the
track and closer on the track, the old
man a little ahead, and his dollars fol
lowing on like a pack of hounds. Now
they are coming at the death, the dol
lar only a little way ahead, and the old
man, with palo cheek and panting
breath and shrivelled arm, clutehes for
the dollar just as it turns on its track,
and missing it he still pursues and still
pursues until the exhausted dollar
plunges into a hole and burrows deeper
down and burrows deeper down until
the old hunter with both hands takes
hold and claws out the dirt from the
embankment, burrowing deeper down
and deeper down until just clutching
that last dollar, the burrowed embank
ment breaks and he rolls over into his
own grave, while a clap of thunder
from the clear sky sounds, “ What shall
it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his soul?” We talk
a great deal ah tut old misers. There
are no old misers, or but few of them.
The most of the misers are compara
tively young. Avarice kills more than
war. In contrast with all that look at
the philanthropist at ninety-two years
of age dying of a cold caught in going
out to look after the prosperity of a
charitable institution which himself
had founded, with its 2,000 students
in its evening schools.
Peter Cooper also impresses us with
the best way of settling this old quar
tet between capital and labot, this al
teration between the rich and the poor.
There are two ways in which this quar
rel between capital and labor will never
be settled. One is by the violent sup
pression of the laboring classes, and the
other is by the maltreatment of rich
people. This is fast getting to bo tho
age of dynamite. Dynamite under the
Kremlin. Dyuamilo near the Parlia
ment houses and railroad bridges. Dy
namite in Ireland. Dynamite in Bug
land. Dynamite in Germany. Dyna
mite in Russia. Dynamite iu America.
The rich are becoming more arrogant
and tho poor, more unreasonable. 1
prescribe for the cure of this great evil
the largest kind of allupatic dose ot
Peter Gooperism. Who ever heard ot
dynamite under Cooper Institute?
Who ever looked fora keg of dynamite
iu the cellar of Peter Cooper’s house?
In the time ot great public excitement,
whan public men have had to have their
houses guarded by soldiers, no sentinel
has ever stood at that man’s door, and
there has not been a time in the last
forty years that the plainest man in
New Yol k and Brooklyn could not ring
ins doorbell and go iu and shako hands
with Peter Cooper. The poorest man
with a hod of oricks on his shoulder
climbing the ladder on a wall, never
begrudged this philanthropist his ride
man easy carriage. On gieat occas
sions, when there came great audiences
in Cooper Institute, and the founder
of that institute walked on the platform
the hard hands of American laborers
in the applause clapped the loudest.
vVhen the opulent men of America and
England and Russia and all the other
lands shall stretch out to the laboring
classes and the suffering classes as kind
and as gonial a hand as that of Peter
Cooper, that will terminate the age of
dynamite. What the police cannot
do, what shot and shell cannot do,
what severe laws severely executed can
not do, what armies with bayonets can
not do, will yet be accomplished by
what I see fit this morning to baptize
as Peter Cooperism. I hail the early
twilight of that day when the men ot
fortune in all lands will come forth and
say, “There are 70,000 destitute chil
dren in New York city, and out of my
fortune I will build this line of asylums
to take care of them. There are vast
multitudes of people in all the cities
living in filthy and unventilatei tene
ment houses, and out of my fortune 1
will build a line of residences with
cheap rents. There are nations that
think nothing of Jesns Christ; I will
turn my fortune inside out to send them
flaming evangels. There shall be no
more hunger, there shall be no more
ignorance, there shall be no more crime,
so lar as I can help it.” When that
day comes this quarrel between capital
and labor, and between the poor and
the rich, will cease, and the last torch
of incendiarism will be extinguished,
and the last dagger of assassination
will go to slicing bread for poor chil
dren, and the last pound of dynamite
that now threatens death will go to
work in the quarries to blast founda
tion s'ones tor churches and universi
ties anil asylums. May the spirit ol
Peter Cooper come down upon all the
bank stock, and the government secu
rities and the railroad companies, and
the great business houses of America.
Peter Cooper also has impressed us
with the new style of monumental and
epitaplial commemoration. You all
want to be remembered. It would not
be a pleasant thought to you to think
that the moment you are gone out of
the world you will be forgotten. But
if the executors of Peter Cooper should
expend $20,000,000 for a mausolem iu
Greenwood it would not make him so
well remembered as that building on
L’liird and Fourth avenues, New York.
How few the people who would walk
around the silent mausoleum as com
pared with the vast multitudes that
will move up and down by that struc
ture in the ages that are to come.
Among thousands who will be educa
ted in that building will there ever be
one so stupid as not to know who foun
ded it? And how great a heait he
had! And how he struggled to achieve
a tortune, and always mastered the for
tune and never allowed the fortune to
master him! What would boa mon
ument of Aberdeen granite compared
with a monument built out of the in
tellects and souls of immortal men and
women? What would be an epitaph
cut by a sculptor’s chisel compared
with the spitaph that will be written
by generations and centuries that are
to come writing his praise? Adorned
and beautiful be all the crypts and cat
acombs and shrines of the dead, but il
the superfluous and inexcusable ex
pense of catafalque and necropolis and
mausoleum had been put into practi
cal use there would have been bread for
all the hungry and knowledge for all
the ignorant, amt a home for all the
lost. The Pyramids of Egypt are the
tombs of the dead kings, their names
even obliterated; and travellers 'ell us
that even the Pyramids of Egypt are
crumbling away. But monuments of
good last forever. Long after Walter
tScott’s Old Mortality shall have worn
out his chisel in reviving the names fa
ded from the old tombstones, the
names of those who have helped oth
ers will be held in everlasting remem
brance. The Sabbath school teacher
builds her monument in the heavenly
thrones and palaces of her converted
class. George Muller, of England,
builds his monument in the orphan
houses of England George Peabody
builds his monument in the library ot
his native village and the school-hous
es for educating tho blackti in the dif
ferent parts of the South. Handel
built his monument in the Hallelujah
chorus. Cyrus W. Field has built his
monument in the cables underlying the
sea, lashing the continents together and
hastening on the day of universal
brotherhood. He who prays or gives
for a church of Jesns Christ builds his
monument in all that sacred edifice
shall accomplish for good. Wilber
force built his monument in the piled
up shackles of a demolished slave trade.
Livingstone built his monument in
what shall be regenerated Africa. Paul
built. hiß monument in the magnificent
story of the resurrection. William E.
Dodge built his monument in the re
formatory institutions he either estab
lished or helped to support. I’eter
Cooper built his monument in the phi
lanthropies he encouraged by the es
tablishment ot that one institution for
the education of the masses. Ah! that
is a fame worth having—that is an im
mortality you can stri\ e after without
the degradation of worldly ambition.
Let such monuments be built all the
lauds over until every crippled limb is
straightened and every inebriate learns
the luxury of cold water, and every out
cast is brought home to his God and
the iast crime is extirpated, and Para
dise lost becomes Paradise regained.
But once more 1 am impressed with
the lact that the longest life-path lias
a terminus. What a gauntlet to run
—ninety-two years of epidemics, and
ailments, and accidents! Why, it
seemed as il he would always stay with
us. Living on from the administra
tion of George Washington to that of
President Arthur. But the liberal
hand is closed, the beaming eye is shut
the world encompassing heart is still.
When he was at my house I felt I was
entertaining a king. But the king is
dead. The largest volume of human
life we see has its last chapter, and its
last page, and its last line and its last
word. And what are the ninety-two
years of earthly existence compared
with the five hundred thousand million
years which just open the chapter of
the great future? For that let us all
get ready. Christ came to reconstruct
us into purity and holiness and happi
ness and heaven. What were the mm
utia of Peter Cooper’s religious experi
ences Ido not know. Some men are
worse than their creed. Some men are
better than their creed. In my esti
mation the grandest profession of the
religion of Jesns Christ a man can ever
make is a holy life devoted to making
the world good and happy. 1 make
no depreciation of the important duty
of professing faith in Jesus Christ in
tho usual modes in the Christian
church; but grander than that is a life
all devoted to makiug the world better
and to making tile world good. A man
may be a member of the most orthodox
church in Christendom, and he may sit
at all the communions for halt a centu
ry; if he be mean and selfish and care
less of the world’s condition, he is no
Christian; while on the other hand, a
man may have peculiarities of religious
belief, and yet if he spend his whole
life for others, he is so much like
Christ I shall call him a Christian.
The grandest philanthropist the world
ever saw was Christ, and the greatest
charity of all the ages, that which
gave His life for the redemption of a
world.
Standing in the shadow of Peter
Cooper’s grave to-day, I implore God
for the sautification of all the wealth of
this country, and pray that it may be
consecrated to that whioh is good and
helpful. We are as a nation about to
enter upon an age of prosperity such as
has never been imagined. There may
be recod, there may be here and there,
as the years go by a set oack in our
national prosperity, but God only can
tell the wealth that is to roll into the
lap ol this nation. Between my jour
ney at the South five years ago aiut my
journey at the South last month tliero
has been a change for the better amoun
ting to a resurrection. The Chatta
hoochee wiil soon rival the Merriinac,
and already all over the South you
hear the dash of the water-wheel and
the clatter of the spindle. In the one
city of Atlanta, $6,000,000 invested in
manufactories. The South has gone
out of gone into business,
and there is going to roll up from that
part of the land a wealth unimagina
ble. Then from the West all the
mines and granaries will disgorge, and
there will be silver and gold and pre
cious stones rolled over all this land.
But the need will be just as appaling
as the opulence will be tremendous.
Five million people in the United States
to-day over ten years of age who cannot
read; six million people in the United
States to-day over ten years of age who
cannot write, and two million of them
voters—a lact enough not only to ap
pal but to stun every philanthropist.
We want five hundred Cooper Insti
tutes. We want churches innumerable.
We want just one great revival, one
reaching from the St. Lawrence to Key
West and from Barnegat lighthouse to
the Golden Gate of the Pacific. Y T ou
and I have a responsibility in the mat
ter. God help you to do your work
and help me to do mine. I like the
rhythm of that verse, written by some
anonymous poet:
“When I am dead and gono
And the mould upon my breast.
Say not lie did ill or well,
Only ho did his best.”
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