. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . is announced tolecture or preachare ample proof thathis remarkable popu-larity has not visiblvwaned. One of themost consummaterhetoricians who everlived, he is likewisea formidable 1 o g i -cian, and can blendan ironclad, unan-swerable syllogismwith a daring andoriginal metaphor,taking your breathaway with his figuresof speech and strik-ing you dumb withhis logic. Though ithas been said ofhim, that he wouldeffect the reconcilia-tion of science andreligion b
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . is announced tolecture or preachare ample proof thathis remarkable popu-larity has not visiblvwaned. One of themost consummaterhetoricians who everlived, he is likewisea formidable 1 o g i -cian, and can blendan ironclad, unan-swerable syllogismwith a daring andoriginal metaphor,taking your breathaway with his figuresof speech and strik-ing you dumb withhis logic. Though ithas been said ofhim, that he wouldeffect the reconcilia-tion of science andreligion by the com-plete annihilation ofscience and the en-throning of religion in its stead, his bitterest opponents must admit thatMr. Cook is fully abreast of the scientific thought of theday. The Boston Monday Lectureship, establishedby Mr. Cook at Tremont Temple in 1873, is still con-tinued, his lectures, delivered on eight successive Mon-days at noon in the winter time, being attended bythousands. There is scarcely a domain of modernthought that he does not enter, and though his pronun-ciamentos on politics, social and economic JOSEPH COOK. science and religion, have often been the butt of cheapnewspaper jokes, they are at least always novel andthought-provoking. Mr. Cook was born at Ticonderoga,N. Y., Jan. 26, 1838, his father being a farmer. In1858, he entered Yale, but three years later had to giveup his studies on account of ill-health. He enteredHarvard as a junior in 1863 and graduated in 1865with high honors. After three years at Andover, hespent an additional year in the study of philosophy, but, although granted alicense to preach, hedeclined all invita-tions to become thepastor of a 1S68 and 1870,he preached at An-dover and for a timeat Lynn, Mass. Thenhe went to Europeand studied at vari-ous German universi-ties under famoustheologians and phi-losophers. In 1873,on his return toAmerica, he beganhis course of noon-day lectures. Thesehave been published
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