JOSBPHUS FLAVIUS COOK.

Otago Witness, Issue 1383, 1 June 1878, Page 5

JOSBPHUS FLAVIUS COOK.

The Rev. Joseph F. Cook has recently given his 100 th Monday noon lecture; and it is a wonderful thing, to the view of the ordinary mind, how it is that Cook has managed to find enough to Bay, and Bay it vrell, during . all this time. Mr Cook' seems" to have improved since he got married. Perhaps his wife has given him some good ideas. He resides in the tip-tcpßtory of DrDio Lewis's Belle vue family hotel, on Beacon street, and from this altitudinous position he can look down upon the city and gather inspiration and things for use upon the platform to big audiences. Mr Cook, in common ■with the clergymen of the city, has preached upon hell, and he has evidently settled the question satisfactorily to his own mind, at least. The clergy appear to be more of one mind upon the hell question than are their congregations, for the average Bostonian . does not believe in an everlasting punishment hereafter. In fact, the average Bosfconian believes that those who are born in Boston are all right, 'so far as the question of a hereafter is concerned. The average Bostonian believes with Tyndall, Huxley, and other great scientific investigators, that matter v absolute essence, and that the spiritual is a reciprocally eternal circular motion, or something of that. sort. I hear that Mr Oook talks of visiting California sooner or later, for the benefit of his health. He is a man of extraordinary physical as well »j»\ mental power. Contrasted with hi» '

wife, he is a lushy, coarse, lionish sort of a man ; she is tenderly delicate, and possesses all the best attributes of a true woman.