New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-03
JOSEPH COOK IN NEJV-YORK.
THE MAN AND THE LEC1

THE MAN AND THE LECTURE.
HIS sUBJECT THE sKEPTICIsM or NEw-ENGIAND
MIR. COOKS cAREEB-Bis BEARING Of TnE
PLATFORM.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, the well-known lee
turer OF Boston, Introduced last evening at Assoe
alton HAIL. by the Rev. Dr. Adams, TO audience not
very large but emnenty Intelligent The lecture on Ihe
skepdcism OF SewEngand" lasted two hours but the at
tenon was literally intense throughout the evening Mr.
Cook is quite forty years old He born at Ticon
deroga this STATE; nucd for college under DR..
Taylor Audover Mass, spont fwo years at faie and
two at Harvard, where he Was graduated. he then
passed four years the study OF theology under Pro
fcssor Park at Andovcr After preaching irregulary
for year at Lynn. Abingdon, and other places iii New
England lie went 10 Europe where he occupied several
years study and travel returning in 1873 to Boston,
where he at once found practicable to begin the work
10 which he had long looked forward teacher OF
teachers" He spoke IN public there aud elsewhere upon
the relations science and religion, until in October
1876 his Monday lectures permanently established
III fremont Temple His fame spread rapidly from Bos-
ton throughout the country aud has philosophy and
tho characteristics Of his person and manner are vel
known in 4 hundred places where his face has never
been seen.
In person Mr. Cook Is conspicuous, if not precisely
imposing. lis frame is large and Is well covered with
very substantial looking flesh. His hair Is long
and of dark brown color, and he wears a
full beard, several shades lighter than his hair.
His complexion is full Of color, his eyes large and
dark often nearly conceded 0y the brows which
ovefhang tnel. He about the platform rather
awkwardly and his frequent gestures In the least
graceful though they often foIcibe and oI-
pressYe Ills is full aud clear. but
melodiOus except in Cs lowest tones and his Gun
phasls infection would often make the hearcr emile
II he were not TOO much buaed in listening. In many Of
his attitudes ana uteralccs Dir. Cook is either con
k,ts lint Loo
Extensively 80. The most conspicuous element in
his bearing before an audience confidence in himself
No one can imagine that he for q moment feels the
Sigh est distnst o! his own powers. He knows, as
Methodist would say, thai he - mas II call
lie conveys n an eminent degree, Inc imprcs-
sion Of power Withheld greater than tEat
OF orator, is thought 40 be the chief ee
men mis- control over the syn 34thes Of ms audience.
breakdown j. evident IRON the ir,t th,t language
will never fail To this feeling is added IN the
wna is comiug neX Tor. without the slightest nz,
the sreaker ,s 10 his aid a seemingly i'm
win frcsncss, ysor and Sowci anguage which carry
captive he most and cold NJ. Co0k Is moth
abound sentences which one cannot help remembering,
az when be said, " The whole tendency modern
L+y Na9De'n led1ni, "sn dese1f mas las
see what DO for the Bedoun If the street :"
again. What they DONG b Paris these twenty
ycarsl Nothing but lie. Eternity Is Invisible FROM
il has been said that NJ Cook has The faculty Of
dccianing theUf{ aS 10 cohFIAce MS hearers taal "
j. TACT. ami that he combine truth and fancy
until thc be"dcrod nina cannot distinguish one lro.H
the Ouer. However ID mag be- his lecture lat cy IL
ing. did 10. afioId the best opportunity Tor Il dis
play Of either ms weakness or Ills strength ana
II Is safe 10 say that these Of thc aud
ence whom curiosity alone drew To Association
Hall away E0mcvh nat disappointed L. IS cauned
Tor the lecturer a1 s strongest resource rs logic but
he ecurc sceptici+In a narration tAan 1t Is
iaeIi5s through which Mr. Cook oc-ues one into be
eyng, Tor the time beng at least WHAT one has always
doEb;cd.
spending payfuiy TO DR.. Ad,ms's intro uc,ion. in
Uiirn he said thai TIE lecturer about to speak 81
sccpjlcisn ~ audience OF ie!iey Mr. Cook re-
iuaY6.d that he himself not born in Boston, and
therefore doubtless needed be born AGAIN. lie then
ionz W the sIigct Of has lecture, OF which OF the
DaIn points given herewith:
Yoar venerable posi- SIR Bryant, tells that Morse
uieu wer. tine urst % come 10 Hew-England, aud
,lrry in tae New-Eugiaud character Is the con
fct between Morse and Puritan We have co.,
sciences, but our wills are Stronger than oar
condolences There Arabian esc4I ia tas PIarOdh
was sinking in fh. Red sea he expressed bah. Willingness
|, believe. ana that angel APPEARED TIE waters
ami filed iIs mouth with te sediment 81 the sea. aud III
b,dy was cast up both shores witness.
"a ~ the law Of history, deiron7fr@trd ~ Paris. IN
Rome, IN bHyfio tidt tue waves OI sheptci7ih c%tfy
with them tDc sediment of Immortality. II mtn only
tbey ere sin King in e waves are ready 70 believe
there Is dbR tiif th'f bti.cI WI %, ahohtftl ~ az
angel who Wiii hii Their minis with mud. But We
intended 20 know whether are 10 sihk OF rot The
Puritan maiden lIsci IA asked JOun Alden why he qua
not speak fcr himself. Priscilla, the goddess
of ar, Of Literature and Of science, has bren
Inc same answer has bees returned. Rev JOia
Alleus are WooSncw Pr.sra,, ANA the time +, coming
every nam must think Tor himself II TINS Is 80,
iAen IL Ia surely Time that Ran was taught how
10 tDiak Tor himself aud II massachusetts, has
portion OF ie worlds suiia 81 Is az least mach O. her
cred.tas ner blame tn ialhers IhiDe o. ac!i re wa
the hasis OF Ae"-fnHia,d sctph Ion. iAric CONES
time a young .na - lie, GENERALLY during MS >upBO-
more year Wneh he can ass more an ,ons thai ie can
answer. Ne|-l-h@l'hG IN - hei Nor"ouoIe wear "tu
docs not know H. Dou sinie some paris 81 the cOuL-
ilre Mr.. COOK described iAe scepicism which pr
vailed Yale ana Harvard II The close o the last cen
tury. AZ Yale, President Dwight i.os ana overcome 1t
scrptclsm Of Harvard College, he said WIS
io-day vastly, tAaS-,Faled ILf CON Sc was MOI
0'Ia lhiidli"Hh iu If i,'p'ct. 14i- "t> ltf hlo't
strength OF sound evangelical thought tlere than "as
commonly supposed. GO 10 Harvard" sa.d the lee
turer, land pW 10 iht Fi1ith-of OF Philosophy
The question ] pat HAS Herbert Spencer any
future mere 2 on. yes, ne has future but
10 is al down hill We come now Zee. 10 iaco
with the question. How did New-Eneand drift So
lar away lDui the lessons Of her Jonthi The
ar.tists. TIE vino laudrd al Boston were
Boston not hJ plymouth ROCK. III 405I ieie Wa p
.aw that only churcl members could vo'e. What WIS
tne church soon the question arose whether
or not parents. whose children We're baptiz d,
could o. a'Aiitlea 70 luDlG oHJ5s. iEn' , 9f,f
stocdard OF Northampton, argued That unconyerted M
and taen foiiowed the ADMISSION of an
uDconycrted ministry. A21inst tims ude OF false
up tie stone, ana Va prime pie OF spiritual church
InemptrsAi, was estADistel. me Atil-"V ooNeHa,ii
aHd TIE political cau>es from which u spraHg were the
ba,, OF thc uncydngeLca Thought OF Eastern Aassacha
sets"
csm was already tfc raE9 IN Ncg-Eugiaiid.
lie dWcit az length upon the Influence OF spar
rnui belief. winch autaguuistc IN it very
nature "a The doctrines OF sceptIcisnI and
uis. necessarily hinder rather than help them His let
ture qb0undcd tEiuugh0u striking expressions 81 IA
nlar huu ghi. which Kept te attention az lis hrarps
uuweaIicd tur instance: " luu viz De told ILat New
York makes tho CauGlcSt.ch aud Boston tie candle
Nou mink the former h. the important oil the Two
but y there canl,s, tuert N1uid be no candle
sticks" Again Before the civil war the church Jagged