Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — DAVID C. COOk. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAVID C. COOk.

The ‘Pioneer PnMlJisr of liter* tor* tor - Bam|;iy fieltooio. “ pfivid C. Cook, tho Chicago Sunday School publisher, ygis Lima Ip Enst Worcester, Now York, in J***, a «oA 0f

Ri v. E. S. Cook, a Mo!hodt#t m n ster, a Cultui cd aad schola: 1/ in*©. Since earliest ihildh ol he his b»»n d voted to the Sunday Scho**l. ,Ia boyhood >e oined The chur h, and begrn t aching ia-thar bum'ay S hool »t the

Ige of seventeen in the "West Division of Chicago, ami for four yeari’f olio wing taught most of the lime in two or thr-e achools ea h Sabbath. The fire of 187 1 was tho beginning of his mission and Sunday-s hool -wo*k on the North Side. fai3 field was one *f the roughest and yOcrcst of the b<rnt district. Ui re, in a German th-atoratuT beer-hall, ho organized “Ever body’s Mission, *’ atterwords removed t a building of its own. Vrith an at* end* niro.of. 3.0 tO'4*o,he sustained »1 e school for five y. ars without the «id of chuieh or so iety. l csides this, he has since organized and super.ntciidcd Aortk Av«nue Mf®sidU, Lake View Mission, Lake Vlow Union Sunday-schools .n Chi ago, and th ; Sunday-s hool connected with Gra e Chmvh in Elgin, 111., besides seveial smaller schools. liis fir t publications were issued for his own Sunday-schools alone. Neigh--1 oring Sunday-schools, appreciating the value of these helps, beouiuo Ins first 6ubscriLers. Sion Mr. Cook discovered tliat his wore uoi the only schools that needed more and better literalui e than they could afford to buy r.t the pri- cs then cxislin , and resolved lo make it his Hie work io piece in the hands of the Sunday-school children of t.’ie Emd an a! undanco of tho veiy best lit' rat are at tho lowest possible prices. Ho was met at tho very outset wilh slmost imurnfoun'able obsta les and lively opposition but iho obstacles and opposition only furnished zest, for he js a man of purpose, and it has been well saiU of him, “his indomit bio ener y dein..nds insurmountable obsinoles.’’ That his puij oso was good and w.so is proved by the way ho has been suppo tod. it is seventeen years slnea he issued his fi.st pub icat on, and Inure Is now scarcely a village or hamlet in tho laud where they are not known a:.d used. Hu erapl- yg regular.y six a«aoi.iaie edimis and some sixty writexs, representing some of iho ablost bunday t-clioo! talent In the land. Among those who know him personally l*e is always recognized as a man of strong Christian character, a practical worker in the ilnireh, school and temperance cause, and a warm friend of missions, both home »nd foreign.

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DAVID C. COOK.