The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-28

Joseph Cook.
We are permitted To make extracts
from japanese newspaper, also from
private letter recently received by one
OF our ciiizeus:
Extract from a letter.
long incxpressibly TO see America
once more, but hope am not throw
ing away my days in these ends of the
earth. ludia gave Inc three most mer-
cilessly crowded months, but Mrs. Cook
and | have both escaped unhurt from
the furnace OF the tropics. In 81 con-
secutiye days made AZ public appear
ances in India and Ceylon, The sub
jecls were often new, as well as the
manner of treatment. The audiences
were OF extraordinary size, quality and
Enthusiasm. Not merely in Bombay.
Calcutta aud Madras, bnt in the inland
towns like Benracs, Alahabad and
Bangalore, All immense opportunity of
usefulness is open for lectures in Eng
fish OH the highest religious and philo-
s, phical themes.
In Japan | have spoken in all the
largest towns TO great audiences. Out
of twelve lectures six were through in
terpreters.
My blessed wife, who has made
scores of friends everywhere, sails day
after tomorrow from IokOhoma Tor
San Francisco, and will be at home in
August. The state OF my fathers
health requires her presence.
| 90 to Australia after a course OF
lectures iu Shanob1iand FPnrhow.
Ihovcunoi bring upon this nation of VIII
he has charge at present the accuI
lated evils of war, pestilence, and ia
inc. But in spite of this his trie
at nand-tliat is, not worse OF thel,
worst people and better of their best.
l have become mysteriously attached
TO Asia, whose regeneration may God
hasten In His own adorable time and
way! Yours, always faithfully,
JOSEPH Cook.
From the Japan Gazette of May 4th
The lecture delivered by Mr.. Cook at
the Meiji kaido, in Toxic, on Wednes.
day, was great success, viewed either
from the mastery and magnificent
manner of the lecturers treatment OF
his subject, or the number aud apprc.
ciative character of the audience. The
large lecture hall is finely adapted Ia
its purpose, and was filled to its utmost
capacity on its ground floor and the
gallery, save q part Of the latter reserved
for Japanese ladies, very lew of whom
however, were present. The leclur,
was given under the auspices OF the
Japanese Young Mems Christian Asso
citation of Toxic, the officers of whicl
society, together with the L. 5. minis
ter, the Hon. John Bingham, and Drs
Hepburn and Verbeck, occupied seat
on the platform. Ambulance to th,
IcCJuic was only ~ tiOh.ts Jiet-;buto.
, with great care, so as TO admit onl
such japanese as understood English
The University and the Engineerin
college were we'll represented, especi
ally the latter, and the students of thes
institutions seemed not the least inter
ested, as they certainly were among;
, the most intelligent portion of the aud
ence. The hearty encores and the III
suppressed smiles that played over thei
f countenances at many of the lecturer
happy hits at some of the absurdities G
their favorite scientific leaders pos
I tons, showed how keenly alive tt
S Japanese mind is to the force of trut
[ clearly and convinciDgly put. n
. greater service, we opine, has ever bee
done to the rising mind of Japan in Ii
I cause OF true and sound philosophy
an equal length of time than wa
done in the two hours lecture of We
terday.
AS for the lecture itself, both as {
d matter and manner, many OF Nj
0 Cooks warmest admirers, some
q whom have heard him on the speci
. nounced il the finest effort they hay
j ever known him 10 make. His vol,
Y filled the building; his herculean fran,
f his honest, earnest, manly manner, wei
commanding in their influence. The
Z the new settings of his theme from h
oriental surroundings, and the new an
t interesting incidents of his recent inteI
A views with the foremost men of scienc
4 in Great Britain and Germany III
homes of philosophy invested his sui
, Jet with fresh and present interes
2 His introduction was most happ,
Citing the Emperor of Japan's decIarl
ton in the imperial rescript OF 1881
where his majesty says our ancestor
look down upon us from heaven to SO
t that we carry ont their Intentions
, Certain it is that his majesty the EN-
peror of Japan is no materialist," erie
the speaker; and from thence proceede
TO show the importance of his subject
: state his limitations, and advance to il
. proof. Three books lying upon tn
speakers table may be taken as sugges
tive OF his three lines of proof, Shake
spoaro. volnna of tho Enoyolopedi
Britannica and copy OF the Bible
Conscience, Science and Revelation;
three-fold argument witnessing aeains
mans life, being but bubble bnrstin.
on the seas Ills object was not /,
prove Immortality by reason. hut I,
prove thai, Death did not end all.
That ii is inst as reasonable to beliey,
we shall live hereafter as we have livet
at all. In the pursuance OF his them,
the lecturer led his hearers entrance,
over a wide field of research, ant
whether into The constitution of nnn,