The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-05
JOSEPH COoh,s MONUMENT.

It seems most appropriate that the mon'
 ument which marks Joseph Cooks last rest
 ing place should be made in Aberdeen, Scot
 land, for Mir. Cook was deyotedly attached to Scotland and the Scotch. During his lee ture tour in Great Britain twenty years ago
 he spent nearly week in Aberdeen. He
 lectured before large audinces of students
 and tOwnspeople and received much atten-
 ti0n in the way of public breakfasts, lunch
 and dinner parties. drives about the city with the lord provost and enthusiastic re- captions everywhere. With the superabun-
 dant health and vigor which marked his
 middle life, he little dreamed, during those happy, busy days at Aberdeen, tEIt the granite for which that city is famous would furnish material for his monument, and that the work would be done there. Among MT. Cook < private papers, to be opened after his death, was found the request that his tombstone should be a cross and that this
 motto should be placed thereon: Look on the Cross until 1t becomes nO Cross to bear
 the Cross" This idea hd often emphasized ill his public utteranceS, that when any soul fully understands and appreciates the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross for his sal vation, no service for the Master will be
 hard, but every duty will become a delight. Thomas q kemDis has the same thought
 when he says:
 ..The Cross, if rightly borne, will be NO DufueH, DuL suDDOFL 10 Ilcc. | For monumental purposes the Ionic seems
 more desirable than the Latin cross, and this one, just placed on the solitary hilltop | of Valley View cemetery, TiconderOga, Is copied from an ancient cross in one of the cemeteries of Edinburgh. John Ruskin's monument at COniston Is q Celtic cross and
 an Ionic cross is erected to the memory of | Alfred TennySon at the Isle of Wight, al- though his body lies buried at Westminster 1 Abbey. More and more the cross is being uSp1 in prufpSfnnt AampfpPipS \ SVnhOl
 of cur sacred faith and belief in immortal. | ity.
 | The late R. s. Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn,
 says of a photograph of Jonathan Edwards:
 Tt reminds one of polished pillar of Ab-
 erdeen granite, rich in color, solid in struc- l ture, defying equally wear and weather
 stains, as nearly indestructible as any rock
 which the earth holds" This is probably | not too strong praise of the enduring nature
 of Aberdeen granite.
 In explanation of the Latin inscription at l the intersection of the arms of the cross we
 quote from one of Mir Cooks Boston Mon 1 day Lectures, which will show how pro 1 foundly impressed he was with this inscrip- tion: "On Longfellow's grave at Mt. Au- | burn there is symbol which represents the | unity of all forms of fruitful religious faith
 At one end of the brown block of stone
 which covers the spot where his body lies
 at rest until the heavens be no more are these four words. so written that they all | meet in one center: Lex, Rex: Lux, Dux. !"
 Law, King: Light, Leader. A circle is
 drawn around the four. Natural law is one
 of the self-reyelations of God. 4 natural | law without God behind 1t is no more than glove without hand it in. Natural law 1 is nothing less than the Divine Omnipres-
 cence acting on the creation which It
 brought into existence; so that Lex means
 Rex. And thus those two radil of the eter-
 nal circle meet at one center. Lex. Rex l the two are one.
 Does Light mean Leader? Lux, Dux-are these one? Wherever there is light, espe- | cially wherever there Is self-evident truth l have we there the self-reyelation of a per. sonal God? So our best philosophers tell us.
 Plato said much of the True. the Good
 and the Beautiful. We are so organized that a yearning that cannot be repressed | teaches us to surrender to the True, to the Good, to the Beautiful. self.surrender to | Nationality Is d mighty tendency In human God touches us and gives us new hearts. Self-surrender to Righteousness is yearn- | ing also, and one that never Is complete until God empowers lis to become His s0ns | Self-surrender. to beauty, the holiness of beauty and the beauty of holiness. is a 1 yearning that will never die out of man. Any religion that is to last must satisfy | these yearnings and insist on self-surrender to nationality, self-surrender to righteous. ness, self fsurrender to beauty. And all that is only self surrender to the Self Evident All that is only self-surrender to a personal
 low I draw. circle around the four. This
 representation l believe to be soundly bibl-
 cal as we'll as thoroughly scientific. The monument, which was ordered
 through M. v. McHugh, of New York city,
 arrived in this country from Scotland June of the first anniversary of Joseph Cooks en. trance into life eternal