BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. 



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CRITICAL ESTIMATES (FOREIGN). 



Rev. R. Payne Smith, Dean of Canterbury. 



The lectures are remarkably eloquent, vigorous, and powerful, anil 

 no one could read them without great benefit. They deal with very 

 important questions, and are a valuable contribution towards solv- 

 ing many ol the difficulties which at this time trouble many minds. 



Rev. Dr. Angus, the College, Regent's Park. 



These Lectures discuss some of the most vital questions of theol- 

 ogy, and examine the views or writings of Emerson, Theodore 

 Parker, and others. They are creating a great sensation in Boston, 

 where they have been delivered, and are wonderful specimens of 

 shrewd, clear, and vigorous thinking. They are, moreover, largely 

 illustrative, and have a line vein of poetry running through them. 

 The Lectures on the Trinity are capitally written; and, though we 

 are not prepared to accept all Mr. Cook's statements, the Lectures, 

 as a whole, are admirable. A dozen such lectures have not been 

 published for many a day. 



Rev. Alexander Raleigh, D.D., of London. 



The Lectures are in every way of a high order. They are profound 

 and yet clear, extremely forcible in some of their parts, yet, I think, 

 always fair, and as full of sympathy with what is properly and 

 purely human as of reverence for what is undoubtedly divine. 



Rev. John Ker, D.D., of Glasgow. 



My conviction is, that they are specially fitted for the time, and 

 likely above all to be useful to thoughtful minds engaged in seek- 

 ing a footing amid the quicksands of doubt. There is a freshness, 

 a power, and a felt sincerity, in the way in which they deal with 

 the engrossing questions of our time, and, indeed, of all time, which 

 should commend them to earnest spirits which feel that there must 

 be a God and a soul, and some way of bringing them together, and 

 which yet have got confused amid the negations of the dogmatic 

 scepticism of our day. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Cook four 

 years ago, when he was visiting Europe to make himself acquainted 

 with different forms of thought, and I could see in him a power and 

 resolution which foretold the mark he is now making on public 

 opinion. 



Rev. C. n. Spurgeon. 



These are very wonderful Lectures. We bless God for raising up 

 such a champion for his truth as Joseph Cook. Few could hunt 

 down Theodore Parker, and all that race of misbelievers, as Mr. 

 Cook has done. He has strong convictions, the courage of his con- 

 victions, and force to support his courage. In reasoning, the infidel 

 party have here met their match. "We know of no other man one- 

 half so well qualified for the peculiar service of exploding the pro- 



