New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-05
THE RET. JOSEPH COOK ~ BROOKLYN.


A lecturer has seldom better opportunity
To test his own popularity than the Rev Joseph Co0K oi
Boston had last ing. He spoke az Inc Simpson Mrih
odist Episcopal Church in BIOokIyn, and about 1000
persons went through the drucng rain and 10y Hooded
streets to hear him. great curiosity visible in The
audience to see the Boston lecturer and he stepped
upon the platform the most eager attention was be-
slowed upon him. He is rather above the average height
and mas fuller physique than even bis height would
naturally call for. His complexion is light and rather
pale, Lis face il round and clear IN its out
lines his forehead ia broad, and MS fair beard
Is several shades lighter than his long straight hair His
voice ia fun and strong and varied in its and not
remarkably sweet is rather agreeable to the He
poys few gestures and those rather FOR illustration than
or emphasis, aud he makes little use OF defamation.
lie began his lecture quietly, but his aggre>siyeness
steadily increased his argument DEVELOPED, and was
grasped by hearers and toward the close he really
excited ms audience and lost something OF his
posture He was interrupted at frequent intervals by
applause which he appeared not TO enjoy. The subject
Of the lecture was Docs Death End All" Dir. Cook
sad
little while ago we not in the world and little
while hence snl BE- here no longer SO much cci
lan. u is very commonplace ~ siGt Al men mi-i
die" Ii is not commonplace to say 4ou Johu. o. yon'
We are the lelvcs-uOt the tree. thousand Springs
may deck the treCny one the leaf You say, the labor
question, tie political situation, Is a hundred uincs more
interesting tnau the Whisper ~ Inspiration But after
an Il sol The eternal question IS before us do not
when the body crumblcs away TO dust. II II IS $50.
should like 10 know IT, The question debated under the
AcropOs III Inc tine Of Socrates is the reation Of
the soul body that OF harmony 10 the narp, or of
the harper 10 the harlf Ii the latter be true can "cl
believe the soul may live and act after the body Is
broken aud gone
If you take animal ard remove the hemisphere Of
its brain, il cannot originate motion. IL can bc stmu
lated motion, hut IL cannot stimulate itself INTO
ton. impossible TO put INTO matter the qualities OF
mind The cye does not unless there ~ ignt outside
Of il; TIE does not hear unless there Is vibration
without it, Must not conclude that the parts Of
cUrpUrea mechanism within the skull do not originate
tier actiVtsi But these he! boards have wonder
fu .lJdy. We call TIE Ca Ons OF Dcnustheues, the
telegraph al the mental results of these 60OOyears the
history Cf the soul SPONTANEOUS generation has never
been pro- ed during al tie period OF tie worlds exist
We believe that there Is no such thing And
without spontaneous generation, We must admit that
inertia property 81 matter, and that some force with
Steadily the distance between the living and the not Inv
ing has widcUed. As say that tnc ear cannot act
without outside it, aud that the eye cannot see
without The light winch strikes IL, must believe by
analogy that the upper keYbo aid-tlc brain cannot
see-, uDcrnted upon by a force without Il. Even
say that as destruction of the Is not the destTc
ton the outside air the destruction OF the eye Is
II the destruction OF the outside light the desiuc
ZION OF tue upper bOaTO Of the BRAN not the dcsrc
ton outsdc which plays upon H. OF the soul
Look my hand; there not particle OF II In eX-
istencc s.y II years Within years matter
entirely changed, but somehow IL has retained is
share Now, the invisible something which wOVe these
elements INTO nand, which wOYe Uthtrs into foot, Is
something superior 10 them, The cOOrinating force
Wblch WOyc there before was woven, ana may
De there after | am unwOyeD.