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exclaiming with tearful eyes and a throbbing heart: " I 

 loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side 

 idolatry, as much as any" — we recognize that he knew 

 at least what his words meant and felt constrained to 

 twine no less a chaplet of praise around the brow of his 

 silent, but more than ever appreciated companion. And 

 so, if we members of the Faculty seem to eulogize our 

 beloved colleague a little too warmly, bear with us, for 

 we come from behind the scenes with a tribute to those 

 traits of his which nowhere else were subjected to such 

 crucial tests, and nowhere else shone with a lustre so- 

 untarnished and attractive. 



DOCTOR COOK'S HOPEFULNESS. 



We realized more than outsiders could, his great- 

 hearted buoyancy and cheerfulness. His broad expanse 

 of face, full of light, his eyes gleaming with kindliness 

 as well as with shrewdness and often with a right merry 

 twinkle, his genial smile, his frank greeting, never marred 

 by any hollow and flippant phrase of mere etiquette, but 

 as honest as it was cordial, his sympathy so responsive 

 yet so genuine, his massive though quiet strength of pur- 

 pose, and his great self-contained, self-poised nature; all 

 crowned with boundless hopefulness, united to make his 

 very presence an inspiration and a benediction. 



With a consummate knowledge of human nature, John 

 Bunyan portrays Hopeful as the fellow pilgrim of Chris- 

 tian along the way to the celestial city. And when Chris- 

 tian wanders from the true path and they get into 

 difficulty, Hopeful, with characteristic modesty and 

 charity, says: "Never mind, brother, I forgive thee, only 

 let us turn this disadvantage to our profit." Again, when 

 a little later they find themselves shut up in a dungeon of 

 the castle belonging to Giant Despair and poor Christian 



