, 1884-05-13
Mr.. Joseph Cook Says Emphati-
calIy il Does Not.
A Brilliant Lecture at the Presby-
terrain Church.
Conscience, Physiology and the
Bible Powerfully Used
To Batter Down Modern Material
istiC Doctrines.
The Discourse Listened to by a
Large Audience.

Notwithstanding the raw and disagreed
bic weather of last evening the audience
which greeted Mr.. Joseph Cook, the
lecturer, at the Presbyterian church was a
notable one, not only for its makeup but
its size. The church was so completely
filled that many chairs were necessarily
placed in the aisles. 1t was at a few
minutes before S O'Clock when one of the
doors leading from the parlor in the
church auditorium was opened and Rev.
Z. S. Chapman, followed by another gen,
tleman, made their appearance. The
latter was plainly attired in black and
wore capacious, loosely fitting garments.
he was in every respect a large man. In
height he was considerably above the
medium, with great breadth of shoulders,
capacious chest and of a generally sturdy
build. His figure, however, was some
what corpulent. His face. with the
exception of his upper lip, was covered
with a brown beard, his complexion clear
and rudy and his brown hair thrown
carelessly back from a broad and capa-
cious forehead. This will give some
idea of the personal appearance of Mr..
Joseph Cook as he advanced 20 the plat
form in the Presbyterian church last
evening and took a seat there. After a
few moments of waiting DR.. Chapman
advanced and introduced Mr.. Cook as a
speaker
WHOM ALL KNEW WELL
by reputation. Mr.. Cook then advanced
to the front of the platform and began
his discourse. A little while ago, he
said, and we were not here. A little
while longer and we will not be
here. Shall we be nowhere? You
John, you Jane, you William, and you
Mary, are going hence after 135, 900 work
ing hours, more or less. Everything else
is uncertain, but it is certain that every
pulse which there beat would sooner or
later cease, and that every eye that now
shOne so brightly would eventually be
glazed in death. This beautiful city lies
on the edge of the Rocky mountains, but
this fact was not half as important as that
1t lay on the edge Of eternity and between
Heaven and hell. Following the plan of
Demosthenes he would begin his lecture
with propositions that were actually dem
onstrable. All were going hence soon.
Of those who had gone, were there now
nowhere in the universe an Abraham Lin
coin, aJames A. Garfield, a Longfellow, or
an Emerson, a Webster, or an Adams. or
a Washington Had all these great men
utterly and absolutely disappeared Is
there no longer a Lord Beaconsfeld, a
George Eliot, a Wilberforce, a Newton, a
Shakespeare, or a John Knox? And of
this age, Bismarck, Victor Hugo, Glad
stone, is there no more existence for them
after death any more than for a tallow
candle when it is consumed? This was a
question that came home more closely
than stock raising, or the passions of
the beer saloons or firesides? When
Socrates took the fatal dose
of poison he said to the mourning
friends around him: You may bury me
if you can catch me, but do not say that
o HAvE BURIED SOCRATES
but that you have buried his body" Not
every materialist could die as bravely as
Socrates. The Greek had believed that
life stood in relation to matter as the
harper to the harp. The harp might be
destroyed without injuring the harper.
As Socrates had believed so had Demos
| tbnpaC Tha ,,otoroEs.c a1,.,, A.. A.
soul occupies the same relation to the
body that the harmony does to the instru-
ment from which it is produced. The
harmony vanished, all is ended. So soul
is to explained as a peculiar combina-
ton of matter and motion. Certain fishes
and cells possess a capacity of giving cleo
trio shocks. Ride a horse into the water
and let him tread upon one of these fishes
and electric shocks are at an end, for the
cells producing them are crushed. So the
materialists think that when the white
courser called Death brushes a human
being that ends all, for the cells which
produced life and thought are destroyed.
If what the materialists assert be the fact
then Voltaire had reason to ask, Does
the song of the sparrow cease after the
hawk has eaten the bird ?" If men give up
their faith in immortality it follows
naturally they must give up their faith in
future rewards and punishments. If this
be true and people believe what is to
prevent the strong from throttling the
weak? Matthew Arnold says if there is
no second life then let us pitch this one
high. Without these future rewards and
punishments he maintained there could
be no good life, but he did not propose to
reason against the truth of what the
materialists say because harm would
follow the acceptance Of the doctrine, but
he intended to overthrow these arguments
because of their fallacy. If what the
materialists claimed were true then
BURNS WAS A FANATIC
when he addressed his Mary in Heaven;
Dante, a dreamer when he pictured his
Beatrice in the Heavenly spaces and the
Queen, a thoughtless woman when she
hoped to meet the Prince Consort on the
other shore. He knew not how many in
the audience had grown weary looking
heavenward for those snatched hence, for
fathers, mothers, for loved wives and
children. If the materialists were right
they would never meet them more. He
hoped his eyes were open to receive the
truth ever though they were scared in the
contact, as they undoubtedly would be il