Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and ...

Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects JOSEPH COOK. TWO LECTURES AT THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, JANUARY 14 AND 15. Subjects: “ The Seven Modern Wonders of the World, ” And “ The Failures of Unbelief. ” Admission, 50 cents. Reserved Seat for Single Lecture, 75 cents. Tickets for both Lectures, including reserved seat, $1.00 TO BE HAD ONLY AT ELLIS' MUSIC STORE, 937 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. This will be the only opportunity of hearing Mr. Cook this season, and as all will want reserved seats who wish to hear both lectures, immediate application should be made for them. The lectures to be delivered on the 14th and 15th are the latest productions of the transcendent genius of Mr. Cook. “The Seven Modern Wonders of the World,” is the result of Mr. Cook's examination of the great religions of the East, made during his recent tour through India, China, Japan, etc., and it is one of thrilling interest to the general public, as well as to the christian people of Washington. The “Failures of Unbelief” is one of the most powerful blows ever dealt at infidelity, and in the opinion of competent judges is Mr. Cook's ablest contribution to the subject of christian apologetics. No friend of the Truth or person interested in the progress of christianity should fail to hear these lectures. JOSEPH COOK. Wendell Phillips said in 1880 (Boston Advertiser, April 19,) “Mr. Cook's budget-note is heard across the continent in unmistakable tones on every tropic that touches the welfare of man, and his hand is busy in almost every reform.” It seldom happens that a public man makes his career a success in a double capacity, and it may well be styled remarkable if he makes it a success in a threefold degree, especially when his successes are achieved in three distinct or even analogous spheres of labor. Yet this is what Mr. Cook has done. He is a specialist, and has really but one subject, namely, The Relations of Advanced Religious and Philosophical Thought to Science and Currant Events; but, in discussing this, he is at once author, lecturer and reformer. He has had unsurpassed success in the foremost cities of America, England, Scotland, India, Japan and Australasia as a lecturer. As an author his books, in both English and American editions, circulate by the ten thousand on both

Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects http://www.loc.gov/ resource/rbpe.20901700

sides of the Atlantic. As what has been styled the Principal of a People's University, he founded and has maintained for seven years the Boston Monday Lectureship, a position in which he has discussed questions of the most vital importance to Church and State. As President James McCosh, of Princeton College, wrote in 1879:— “Mr. Cook did not take up the work he has accomplished as a trade, or by accident, or from impulse; but for years he had been preparing for it, and prepared for it by an overruling guidance. He comes at fit time; that is, at the moment needed. He comes forth in Boston, which is undoubtedly the most literary city in America, and one of the great literary cities of the world. He has as much power of eloquence as Parker, and vastly more acquaintance with philosophy than the mystic Emerson. He lightens and thunders, throwing a vivid light on a topic by an expression or comparison, or striking a presumptuous error as by a bolt from heaven. He is not afraid to discuss the most abstract, scientific or philosophic themes before a popular audience; he arrests his hearers first by his earnestness, then by the clearness of his exposition, and fixes the whole in the mind by the earnestness of his moral purpose.” Joseph Cook was born in Ticonderoga, N. Y., January 26, 1838. His early training was at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., under the celebrated classical teacher, Dr. Samuel H. Taylor. He entered Yale College in 1858, but, his health having become impaired, he left it early in 1861. He entered Harvard college as a junior in 1863, and was graduated in 1865, receiving high honors, and carrying off several of the first prizes. He then entered Andover Theological Seminary, and went through the regular three years' course. He added to this a fourth year at Andover, for special study of advanced religious and philosophical thought. He was licensed to preach, and has done so to some extent, but was not ordained. In September, 1871, he went abroad for two years, and studied at Halle, Leipsic, Berlin and Heidelberg, under the directions of Tholuck, Julius Muller, Dorner and Kuno Fisher. He then travelled in Italy, Egypt, Syria, Greece, Turkey, and other countries of Europe. Returning to the United States at the close of 1873, he took up his residence in Boston, and in 1874 entered upon his special work as a lecturer on the relations of religion and science. His lectures have been delivered mostly in Tremont Temple, Boston, and are widely known as the “Boston Monday Lectures.” They appeared in whole or in part in leading newspapers, and led to Mr. Cook's being called on to deliver, on other days of the week, courses of lectures in the principal cities of the United States. In Boston alone Mr. Cook has delivered one hundred and sixty-two lectures, on the most difficult philosophical, scientific and political topics to audiences consisting chiefly of men, assembled at noon on Monday, the busiest hour of the busiest day of the week, and, up to the last, often overflowing Tremont Temple, which has seats and standing room for about three thousand persons.

Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects http://www.loc.gov/ resource/rbpe.20901700

For the last six years Mr. Cook's Monday lectures as stenographically reported and revised, have been regularly published in full in Boston, New York and London and have appeared in large extracts in many leading religious journals at home and abroad, so that they have reached, at a moderate estimate, a million readers weekly,—a highly gratifying proof of their innate worth. In the year ending July 4, 1878, Mr. Cook delivered one hundred and fifty lectures, sixty in the East, ten of them in New York City, and sixty in the West, besides thirty new lectures in Boston; issued three volumes, one of which is now in its sixteenth, and another in its thirteenth edition, and travelled on his lecture trips 10,500 miles. In the year ending July 4, 1879, Mr. Cook delivered one hundred and sixty lectures, seventy-two in the East, twenty of them in Boston and ten in New York, seventy in the West, five in Canada, two in Utah and eleven in California, of which five were in San Francisco. He twice crossed the Continent in the last four months of the season, and in the last nine months travelled on his lecture trips 12,500 miles. During the winter Mr. Cook conducted a Boston Monday-noon lectureship and a New York Thursday-evening lectureship at the same time. On the closing evening of Mr. Cook's course of ten lectures in New York City, some two hundred people were turned away, unable to find standingroom, and the money for their tickets was refunded. In 1880, 1881 and 1882, Mr Cook made a lecturing tour of the world. In all the great cities visited there were immense audiences. It is believed that topics as difficult and serious as Mr. Cook's were never before carried through a tour of similar extent and success. During the two years and seventyseven days occupied by Mr. Cook's journey around the world, he spoke oftener than every other working day while on the land. Mr. Cook made one hundred and thirty-five public appearances in the British Island. Of these, thirtynine were in Scotland, thirteen in Ireland and eighty-three in England and Wales. His audience were of extraordinary size, quality and enthusiasm. He was repeatedly called to leading towns to meet overflowing assemblies. Mr. Cook gave five lectures in Edinburg during eight consecutive days, and the audiences crowded all available room in the largest halls, and grew in enthusiastic interest to the last. Charles Dickens said that a Boston audience was next in merit to an Edinburgh assembly; and this he considered high praise of Boston, because, in his opinion, an Edinburgh audience was perfect. At Free St. George's, formerly the Rev. Dr. Candlish's Church, and now the Rev. Dr. Whyte's, when Mr. Cook preached on Sunday, Nov. 31st, on “Secret Prayer,” the building was crowded to repletion, and it was necessary to admit the regular congregation to its place by tickets, half an hour before the service began. The Lord Provost presided at one lecture, and at others Prof. Calderwood and

Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects http://www.loc.gov/ resource/rbpe.20901700

Principal Rainy, and on the platform were such distinguished men as Principal Cairns, Prof. Blackie, Rev. Dr. Kerr, Prof. Simpson, Prof. Blaikie, Sheriff Campbell, Mr. Taylor Innes, Rev. Dr. Hanna and Rev. Sir Henry Moncrieff. At Edinburgh, as well as at Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London, great num- of ministers of all denominations were present, The students of Edinburgh University, and of the Theological Colleges of the city, had a special section of the Free Assembly Hall assigned to them on the occasion of the delivery of the lecture on Conscience. Principal Rainy, of the Free Church New Theological College, Edinburgh, says, in a published letter: “The lecture of Mr. Cook on ‘God in Conscience,’ was delivered in the Free Assembly Hall in Edinburgh, to an immense audience, and was in the highest degree instructive and impressive,” Of another Edinburgh lecture, at which many hundred applied for tickets and failed to obtain them for want of room, a prominent minister says: “I do not remember to have seen such a gathering of Edinburgh men, except when Mr. Gladstone addressed the monster meeting in the Corn Exchange. And even Mr. Gladstone did not hold the massive and manly audience more spellbound than did Mr. Cook.” Among Mr. Cook's public appearances there have been in Edinburgh, twelve; Glasgow, nine; Dublin, five; Belfast, five; Liverpool, four; Birmingham, four; Manchester, seven; London, fifteen. He was entertained at public breakfast at Belfast, Cardiff, Leicester, Abardeen, Inverness, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow and London. His farewell lecture in London was given in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, to a large and enthusiastic audience, on the 31st of May, 1882, Dr. Allon, the editor of the British Quarterly Review, occupying the chair. After spending some months in Germany and Italy; Mr. Cook went by the way of Greece, Palestine and Egypt, to India, where he arrived on the 5th of January, 1882, and where he spent about three months, During this period he lectured in Bombay, Poonah, Ahmednagar. Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares (the headquarters of Hindooism,) Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore, etc., etc., to large, intelligent and appreciative audiences, composed of both Europeans and natives. In eighty-four consecutive days he made forty-two public appearances in that country and Ceylon. Every one of the principal towns from the Himalayas to the sea gave him an eager and overflowing audience of educated Hindoos, and the results of his lectures to those people will doubtless be seen in future years. In Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, hundreds were turned away from the doors, owing to the largest available halls being overcrowded. During his stay in Calcutta, Mr. Cook and the leaders of the Brahmo Somaj or Society of Theists, exchanged repeated visits, and explained their religious opinions at great length. From India Mr. Cook's tour extended to China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands. In Japan he gave twelve lectures, six in English and six through an interpreter, to audiences

Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects http://www.loc.gov/ resource/rbpe.20901700

camposed chiefly of Japanese students, teachers and public men. He gave one address in Canton, one in Foochow and three elaborate lectures in Shanghai. In Australasia, in the winter of the Southern Hemisphere, from July to October, 1882, Mr. Cook gave long courses of lectures to brilliant, crowded and enthusiastic assemblies, in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, and other leading towns. There were fifty-eight public appearances in all.

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Joseph Cook. Two lectures at the Congregational church, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15. Subjects http://www.loc.gov/ resource/rbpe.20901700