The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-17
Rev. Joseph Cook at Fairpoint.

/ ClOCk, hef. bls UohH l|oie5 Va ~
York, lectured on "Queen Elizabeth"
Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia, Will nave
public reception on the grounds at O'CLOCK
tomorrow afternoon.
Rev. Joseph Cook, OF Boston. arrived
here to-day, and was warmly received by
the thousands Of people on the grounds. At
9 o'clock every one Of the five thousand
seats in the auditorium was filled, and thou
sands of persons were standing outside.
Rev. Dr.. Eddy, OF Jersey City. offered
PRAYER before Mr.. Cook began lis lecture on
"Lost Souls Under Natural Law"
Mr.. Cook said: "The riddle OF death will
soon pc solved for all Of us, aud the solemn
ity OF the subject demands resort to the
closet OF secret prayer. We should have
higher than human authority to lead us into
the next world. Let us look ahead and see
what we can see. / am resolved not to go
hence trusting for an opportunity TO repent
after death. In the future William NJ.
Tweed will be in one. place and William
Cullen Bryant will be in another. Heaven
Is a state and place, and hell Is
state and place. 1t is hard to make
q Tweed out of q Bryant. There
is such a thing as permanency OF character,
either good or bad. Plato said he was
afraid of the next world, but lie was en-
couraged by the fact that the laws OF the
next world were brothers OF the laws In
this. We see that here character crystal
lies ITSELF Canon Farrar, under the raft
ers of Westminster, says there is opportu-
nifty for repentance after death. AS the
negro said to Thomas Corwir, who asked
him why, when he was well fed and clothed,
he ran away from his master, 'The sltua-
| ton is open, with all its advantages, ana
you can occupy it, So we say to Canon
Farrar, the situation is open after death,
wish to make the experiment ? Does
any man think it safe to wait until
after death for repentance? A doc
trine which will not work well here
will not work we'll hereafter. The present
and the future worlds are alike. The
current discussions OF future punishment
do not contain concise definitions. We
have now not so much discussion between
scholars, but discussion Of scholars by par
| lors and newspapers, and beer-gardens.
| Falstaff and Fitznoodlc have become theo-
logians; Pall-Mall and Beigravia, and Fifth
avenue and Euclid avenue, are discussing
theological questions"
The various views OF future punishment
were referred to in detail. The speaker
believed in spiritual body. It might be
that it could be shot through with pain
from an accusing conscience. Conscience
shoots the physical body through and
through in this world, and why should it
not be so in the next world as we'll as IN
this? There is an up and a down in con-
science The scholarly Universalists have
| given UP their doctrine that death is q
| bath to wash man white, and pre-
pare him for heaven; but they think that
| Tweed, Nero, and Aaron Burr will go to
that place by long winding stairway. For
ever and foveyer William NJ. Tweed will
leave behind him bad past; so with Burr
and Nero. The speaker repudiated all
ielly-tsh theology. Whoever makes gap
| in his record must look on that gap forever
and forever. 1t is 4 iavorite idea that all
will have second chance-a new trial In
a late pamphlet Canon Farrar disputes the
doctrines OF the Universali>tS, and says he
only hopes man will have another chance
The orthodox people believe that character
is formed this side OF the grave and is per.
manent, and that while sin continues its
punishment will continue. When Charles
TX. was asked to assassinate Coligny he said
.sNot Coligny alone, but every Huguenotl lr
France, SO that there will benone to reproaci
me-" II man falls into voluntary per-
manence in dissimilarity with God he as
sassinates all that is good and all desire tc
be good. This is state Of perdtion. Hc
who sins through this life will continue
SHINING in the next. II we so through
this life obeying God we will go through
the next obeying him. Cause and ettcc
rule the universe, and they are connected
in matter by necessity and in mind by per
suasiun, but in one region us much as IN tht
other. Cause and effect are the paVemen
OF heagen, and they are the pavement OF
hell. They are the stairs which lead tC
heaven, and the steps that lead down tt
hell. when God converts us he lets agh'
upon us and persuades us. The question
| is whether Tweed viii choose to repent IN
the next world. VIII Nero repent in tht
next world? We may have second trla
in this life previous to death. Science
would answer as the Saviour did, there be
few that be saved. A door cannot be open
and shut at the same time. Narrow Is dhe
way that leads to similarity with 600
Broad is the way that leads to dIsslaa-
larity with God. BrU orthodox the
ology does not teach That great ma.
jority OF mankind will be lost. Augustine
did not teach this, nor does Princeton nor
aAndover. Ii any man will explain to me
the existeuoe,ef the wicked at all, Twill eX-
plain the everlasting punishment Of the
wicked. There cannot he virtue without
the possibility OF vice. God cannot make
an upper without making an n,ander. Man
has choice. Suppose two staarcases, one
of marble and fone Of red-hot iron, why
shosld Tweed and Burr and Nero so up
the burning a.ay OF crime aud Gin, when
God could have tdken them up tho marble
stairway to heaven In nature even, be-
yond,a certain point there is no remedy.
In organic laws there Is such thing as its
being tao late to mend, so it mag he too late
for Tweed and Burr and Nero to mend, not
because they cannot, but because they will
not. II men do not see light here, how will
they gee it aereafter? The fact that ehafac-
ter tends to final permaaence is'dEopped
like hot iren.
Mr. Cook stated that until he was fifteen
he was brought up Uniytrsalist. lie was
trained in Unitarian coIlege-that was
since he became orthodox, and had tried to
look ut both sides. Emerson had become
q theist. The twenty Methodists who called
on him the other day did not make mis-
take. Mr., Cook said be had copseientiously
put every controyerted point under the mi
crosc0pe, and he believed that the orthodox
Views which have stood the test OF centuries
still stauS. Origen used to teach that even
Satan might repent. It is not asserted that
Satan and the fallen angels capnot repent,
but that they will not. Tweed was filthy
who tiled to swallow the Hud-