18 CALEB COOKE MEMORIAL TABLET. 



The Fraternity lost its right hand when he died. Its 

 counselling intelligence lost, too, in him some of its best 

 practical wisdom : that wisdom that comes primarily from 

 a hearty interest. In him was an unwearying willingness 

 to plan and to work for the objects which this association 

 seeks to accomplish. He believed in it wholly. He saw 

 in its methods the best, perhaps the only, way to deal with 

 a class of persons especially exposed, especially unpro- 

 vided for in the general social and educational arrange- 

 ments of the day, and equally endangering society in the 

 future, if unconsidered now. 



If any should be kept in remembrance, and should have 

 commemorating tablets set up as memorials of their rare 

 qualities and services it is such as he. 



The Chair referred to Mr. Cooke's love for nature and 

 the enjoyment he always took in collecting the earliest 

 flowers at spring, and called upon Mr. W. P. Andrews 

 as one of the friends who had frequently accompanied him 

 at such times. 



In response, Mr. Andrews said : 



He had but one word to add to the just and discrim- 

 inating estimates of Mr. Cooke ; and that was as to his 

 non-observance of religious forms and ceremonies, and 

 the fact that he was never to be found inside a church on 

 Sunday morning. This arose not from depreciation of 

 the value of any sincere religious conviction ; for Mr. 

 Cooke's life was sincerity itself, and he was quick to rec- 

 ognize any good in the world ; but rather from his deep 

 feeling for our common mother Nature, who spoke to him 

 in tones which made the efforts of the average preacher 

 and congregation seem tame and cold in comparison. 



