, 1877-05-13

church Of pleasant Sunday morning Won will And
yourself among more Of 1the ':old families" than
will nd there the ereaest agsregate ef t6e reh
and the noted You win See more 1,cnut;fni
women than in any other church. They arc the
ancestors have had poverty blight nor excessive
toll to preui2turcy exhaust The children OF cul-
nsated men and women, cultivated from infancy
themselves m4At carefully breathing the air of cul
ture all their days their countenances have look
that you cannot find elsewhere on The continent
Ihsy are masssd together to snch an extent that
the Public Garden. And then there is the choicest
music of the city to charm the ear, and Edward
co1e 6xeFe1, Afis TO- ~ st1nd as IL capital on s9ch
descenaant OF one OF the old families Of Dorchcs-
ter He has strong resonant and rotund utter
an ance. and every Sunday morning will give you
CnAsIlneiy graceful essay On some moral theme,
which occasionally goes deeper down and becomes
relig1oua or sometimes has shot through, It some
arch satire on ths esangelcals, with no bitterness
congregation, hear ten minutes extempore talk
and listen to the magnificent orgnn-playing and
the pulpit, you would not think there was very
much. but, when you hear him, you think Of the
zealous philanthropist, the brilliant writer, and
out . Country y and that best Of Sunday school
books, sin Ills Name; you think OF Claiming
9nd ,9sI,S Sf Harvard College. and Of the Atlantic
AthenGum, aud Of all that has been growing mp in
Boston for three generations, fosered and cherish
cd by the men and women whom he SO fully repre-
scnts.
JOSEPH COOK
Is not settled minister. He has lived In Boston
Tor few ycats past and preached wherever be
wanted He has rooms near the Athenmum which,
with Its splendid nbraFy, Ia his workshop. He IL
about 45 Tears old, above. the medium size, with
large head, a forid complexion, and slightly yell
lowlsh Wh1Akcrs and no nlustache. He IL gradu-
ate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Harvard COL
lego, and Andover Theological Seminary; and in
addition TO this he has spent years in Gernuny and
in travel through Europe. As far US abIn1y to
grapple with the most abstruse metaphy sico ma
terial subjects Of the day, there IL 1iota man in
America Ills superior. The good people of Boston
were slow to acknowledge his extraordinary worth
They only noticed his peculiarites and called him
ity began to aock to hear lin, as he conducted the
moon prayer-meeting OF the Young Meas Christian
insight, aud trenchant criticism, that they
vcuLured to say That there wAs something In
him after all. But it not until Ralph Waldo
Emerson, who heard him lecture on ''The Decline
OF lnfdelity. " had spoken III unqualified terms of
bis genius did they venture to maintain that Jo-
seph Cook was more than au ordinary mortal. and
their Willingness 10 accept Of him Us
the best expounder and champion Of modern ortho-
do1y that New England has had for half century.
His criticisms, every Nonlay before his lecture,
on the great eyents OF The week their real and
probable relation to the Kingdom Of God, are
brilliant and profound coudensations Of subtle
thought. do not know that Coletidge in his day
could hive done better OF 60 we'll. NEroSsEr.