St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-01
ANOTHER BLooDLEss SCRAP.

DIR. Burrell and Faith Healer
Dowie Still Fight at Long Range.
Harmony hall held about 800 inter-
terested auditors yesterday afternoon
who had come to hear Rev. j. A. Dowie,
the Australian advocate of faith heal
ing, pound DR.. D. j. Burrell ''in the
name of the Lord" Nor were they dis
appointed. Mr.. Dowie had his war
paint on and he was out for scalps. His
language was at times more fOrcible
than elegant.
The quarrel between Dowie and Bur-
rell dates back to the advent of the
former in Minneapolis. The Tribune
sent reporter to interview Burrell on
the subject of faith healing, and that
high-salaried gentleman denounced
DOwie as mountebank and fraud.
Dowie wrote to Burrell complaining Of
the harsnness of his lalguage. Burrell
sent back word, it seems, that he had
never mentioned the name of DOWie to
the Tribune reporter. The faith healer
then wrote to Managing Editor Will
Jams, repeating Burrell'S assertion that
Dowie's name had never been men-
toned in the interview. Hereupon it
developed that Burrell wrote out the in
terview, instead of speaking it, and that
he was responsible for the attack upon
Dowie, although he had never, given
vocal enunciation to that gentleman's
name. Dowie, of course, wrote to Bur-
rell, taxing him with his attempted eva
sion of the truth, but the Westminster
divine never replied. All this was ex-
planned to the Harmonic hall audience
yesterday afternoon, embellished by
running comments which characterized
Burrell as an equivocatOr, a quibbler, a
deliberate falsifier.
But that was not all. In Saturdays
issue of the Northwestern Presbyterian
there was published an article in which
DOwie was spoken of as an impoStOr, a
fraud, man who makes merchandise
Of his faith. Because certain Scotch
expressions were used in that article,
Dowie declared Burrell to be It's author,
and the pastor of Westminster was in
for more roast" The article stated
that Dowie, OH coming to Minneapolis,
has asked permission to distribute his
tracts III Westminster church on Sun
day.
THAT statement" said Dowie, 'sis a
lie, and DR.. Burrell knows it is lle.'
A man in the audience here arose and
explained that he had asked such per-
mission of the Westminster church peO-
pie, but it was before Dowie ever
reached the city. Further ON the article
stated that two women had attempted
| to distribute tracts at the doors of West
| minister, but had been driven away by
the police. A lady here explained that
she had so distributed tracts, but that
| she was alone there and that she saw no
policeman. These explanations proved
that Dowie had had nothing to do with
the asking and the distributing, so, of
course, it offered pretext to that gen.
tleman for more calling of liars.
'This article states that | have made
merchandise of my faith. have never
asked for money for my services. If
there be any one here who ever heard
of MY asking for money, let him stand
up" No one stood. 81 can't see where
the lmposture comes ill.," Dowie con-
tinued.
Several persons, some of whom, at
least, were members of Burrell's church,
created a disturbance by going out.
"This looks to me-" exclaimed Dowie,
heatedly," like preconcerted attempt
to break up the meeting. You people
come here of your own accord. You
should have the decency to wait until
have finished"
The remainder of Dowie's discourse
was devoted to proving that no church
has ever discarded the doctrine of divine
healing, and that if the cure of disease
by faith be denied, the Bible must be
amended and the most popular Gospel
hymns discarded.