Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-07
The Worlds Most Renowned Advocate
Of Divine Healing to Visit Pitts
burg This Week. s
GREAT CLAIMS MADE FOR HIM.
A Scotch Australian Preacher Who Declares
he Not Only Cures All Human
ityS Ills, But
SAYS HE HAS EVEN RAISED THE DEAD.
Attendants at Bethany to Be Given an Opportunity to
Test Him.

avenue headquarters of the local faith cure
adherents, were yesterday thrown almost
into a fever of excitement. 1t was an.
nounced that next Sunday Rev. John Alex.
Dowie, of Australia. would address the be.
LEVERS at Bethany, to be the guest of Miss
Mary Moorhead until the 10Th, when he
will return to Chicago, his present home.
Mr.. Dowie is called the most renowned
advocate of divine healing in the world and
through prayer and the laying on of hands,
is claimed to have achieved results equalled
only in apostolic times. Cancers are not
only stopped in their disastrous progress by
the prayer of Mr. Dowie, but it is said they
have actually disappeared almost instantly
under his touch. 1t is claimed, too, that
in San Francisco, where he taughs his in.
teresting theories last year, Mrs s. A
Kelly, of Eddy street, that city, who had,
TO all appearances, died from terrible
hemorvhage, was recalled to life. 1t created
{ great furore, and rumors of it reached tn .
East at the time. Mr.. Dowie, in telling it,
SAYS:
Il did not intend to again speak of this,
out perhaps it is well to do so. The woman
lay upon her couch as dead. The jaw
dropped and the eyes fxed-they were not
shut, but fixed and CLASSY. 1 placed my
hand upon her heart, but could feel no fut
ter; L put my ear down close, to detect any
breathing, but could not, and the pulse
seemed gone.
PRAYER FOR A MIRACLE
"When entered the room everyone else
retired from it in accordance with my GUS
tom, and l was alone with Mrs Dowie in
what seemed to be the room of the dead 1
turned the lock in the door lest someone
should open it without intention, and
We be disturbed in prayer L then
placed my hand upon the body,
especially upon the heart-I think it rested
entirely upon her heart-and, with nv wife
by my side, we prayed, crying unto Him
who is the resurrection and the life. We
believed our prayer would be answered.
Presently her eyes moved, then quickly the
life and the light returned TO them. She is
now alive and in health
Rev Mr. Doyie is a Scotchman, born in
Edinburgh about 20 wears ago. He believes
he is divinely ordained to promulgate the
doctrine that Chris5 died, not only for peo-
Piles sins, but fortheir sicknesses: to deliver
mankind from both. His meetings partake
largely of the character of the usual evan
CclistiC gatherings with, of course, the ad-
Gitional element of the novel doctrine of
Divine Healing. There are always great
stacks of requests for prayer
generally written. At the opening
the petitions in his hands, invites all pres
ent to lneel in PRAYER. then, in quiet way,
mentioning the name of each malady, makes
a simple direct petition to God He does
not lay hands on anyone publicly. unless
the number desiring to be prayed with be-
comes greater than he can see singly. In
praying with them privately no Other per-
son is allowed to be present except Mrs.
Dowie, who is a sweet, bright-faced blonde,
an Australian by birtA She is always with
him in the healing room, unless the patients
be men, whom he sees alone.
THE HEALER's FIRST EXPERIMENT
Eight wears ago, when in pastoral charge
ST Melbourne. Australia, Mr.. Dpwie was
himself healed of a painful lameness
Shortly afterward two little daughters of
one of his parishione 5 lay diving from a
malignant fever. Eminent physicians had
ceased all efforts for their recovery. and upon
their acknowledgement that no more could
be done bv them, Mr.. Dowie knelt by the
bedside and offered up a prayer. The fever
ahated almost instantly, and thereafter the
lame and halt. the blind and diseased fol-
lowed him in crowds Since that time he
has ''laid hands on over 1900 persons
He left Australia to encompass the world
bv travel and carry these doctrines into
every nation.
No charges of any kind are made. No
person who has ever been healed has been
asked to give a cert of money The poor
are treated as kindly and patiently as the
rich, and, as a matter of fact, it is they who
largely have been blessed However there
is never want of money. Most munificent
donations of thousands of dollars have been
given to the work by wealthy admirers
Since entering at the Golden Gate in Cal
ifornia, Mr. and Mrs. Dowie and their
Young son and little daughter have stopped
Tor tine in Salt Lake City, Omaha, Ne
hraska, Seattle and various points in Can
ada. Their plans are now to settle in Chi
caco until after the Worlds Fair, during
which session he will hold meetings in the
lecture room of the Auditorium Hotel
Then they intend to &C to Great Britain,
China, Africa and IndiG.
SOME OF HIS ECCENTRICITIEs.
While a cultured educated gentleman of
wonderful power and courage, Mr.. Dowie
has peculiar eccentricities, one being per-
feet abhorrcnce for the eating Of pork and
tobacco using. Until such "vile" practices
have been abandoned he will never lay his
hands upon person.
One Of the most remarkable healings re-
ported under his touch was the first in San
Francisco that of poor old woman who
canc 20 him on crutches that she had used
for wears because of one foot being turned
directly under her ankle. Mr.. Dowie,
kneeling down, took the deformed foot in
his hand placed his fingers upon the dis
torted, painful joints, and prayed. Instant
aneouslv, his adherents say, the joints
slipped into their proper place and the
woman rose and walked without her
crutches. Some other reported cures are as
follows: Mrs. Ada Aspengren, of Sutter
street, Oakland, Cal, was born blind in her
left eve and deaf in one ear. She was healed
also during the meetings in San
Francisco In Victoria, Canada, Cap
tain Ashton, totally deaf for 20 years,
was wholly restored to hearing. Mr.. Dowie
placed his hand upon the mans head,
prayed and put his fingers in the diseased
ears. Immediately afterward the patient
could distinctly hear a whisper. Mrs.
Randall, of Seattle, Wash. had a cancer in
her system for over two wears, and it gave
her terrible pain, so much so that she had to
be waited upon constantly. She could not
raise her arm for the cancer was gathered in
= great bunch just under it. Mr.. Dowie
saws:
"Wheu her mother first spoke to me
answered, There are so many waiting for
ne do not think / can see her, but when
she explained the case 1 said, oh, if it be a
cancer case will see her. / always put
everything aside for that. The woman was
suffering terribly. We asked the dear Lord
TO kill the cancer, and while nv hand was
,,,nD II fhc whole hunch disannearad Thara