BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. 



their delivery, but still more to their inherent power, without which 

 no adventitious aids could have lifted them into the deserved promi- 

 nence they have attained. . . . Mr. Cook is a great master of analy- 

 sis. . . . The Lecture on the Atonement is generally just, able, and 

 unanswerable. . . . We think, on the whole, that Mr. Cook shows 

 singular justness of view in his manner of treating the most difficult 

 and perplexing themes, for example, God in Natural Law, and the 

 Trinity. ' 



Springfield Republican. 



This new preacher of modern Orthodoxy delivered his Fifty-first 

 Monday Lecture under the caption " Life or Mechanism Which ? " 

 this week in the Boston Park-street Church, which was crowded 

 even to the galleries, aisles, and pulpit-stairs with an audience 

 mostly composed of men, and representing, to a large degree, the 

 culture and intellect of Boston and vicinity. This Monday Lecture- 

 ship is now an established institution, and in its growing popularity 

 will tax pretty severely the quality of Mr. Cook. He has so far, 

 however, met the issue squarely, and shows no signs of emptiness or 

 flagging. . . . Mr. Cook has in his favor a happy combination of per- 

 sonal advantages, a good presence, mental grasp, considerable per- 

 sonal magnetism, logical alertness and acuteness; a habit of minute 

 and precise analysis, with sufficient repetition of important details; 

 a poetic and dramatic gift, lighting up what might else be dry and 

 heavy with frequent flashes of wit and fancy, and literary and his- 

 torical illustration ; a restless fervor, the outcome of an excess of 

 physical nervousness, which, however, is never disconcerted; and 

 withal, a fine mastery of good, copious Saxon English. 



Boston Daily Advertiser, 



At high noon on Monday, Tremont Temple was packed to suffo- 

 cation and overflowing, although five thousand people were in the 

 Tabernacle at the same hour. The Temple audience consisted 

 chiefly of men, and was of distinguished quality, containing hun- 

 dreds of persons well known in the learned professions. Wendell 

 Phillips, Edward Everett Hale, Bronson Alcott, and many other 

 citizens of eminence, sat on the platform. No better proof than the 

 character of the audience could have been desired to show that Mr. 

 Cook's popularity as a lecturer is not confined to the evangelical 

 denominations. (Feb. 7.) 



It is not often that Boston people honor a public lecturer so much 

 as to crowd to hear him at the noontide of a week-day; and when it 

 does this month after month, the fact is proof positive that his sub- 

 ject is one of engrossing interest. Mr. Cook, perhaps more than any 

 gentleman in the lecture-field the past few years, has been so 

 honored. (Feb. 14.) 



The Independent. 



We know of no man that is doing more to-day to show the rea- 

 sonableness of Christianity, and the unreasonableness of unbelief; 

 nor do we know of any one who is doing it with such admirable 

 tolerance, yet dramatic intensity. 



George M. Beard, M.D., in the New- York Graphic. 



It is said that Mr. Cook misrepresents modern science. This criti- 

 cism is made mostly by those who do not read all his books; or judge 

 by the original reports at the beginning of the series, or by floating 



