The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-18
NOVEL QUESTION OF Law
Is Curing by Path In the Case Of
John A. DOwie Genuine
STATEMENTS or WITNESSES
Many Persons Take Oath That Prayer
Has Completely Healed Them-What
the Skopiics Say-ImpOrtaut
Law Case In Chicago.

Chicago, July 17.-Judge John Barton
Payne has been called to decide
whether John Alexander Dowie Is a
mountebank or divinely appointed
apostle. He has under advisement an
opinion on a proposition contended by
one side that the very claims of the
preacher are preposterous enough to
brand him am impostor; by the other
that the power which cleansed the lep-
ers, healed the centurion's servant and
cooled the fever of Peters wife's
mother ON the mountain side in the
land of ZabuloH and Nepthalim, is as
potent and active now as 1854 years
ago.
This controversy, If We may believe
| the TimeS-Herald, has come to issue
| by reason of the wide reputation of
Mr.. Dowie's work. 1t was started be-
| cause the score of psalm singing people
| who first came to his home have grown
| to "a multitude. 1t Is prosecuted by the
| families on EdgertOn avenue, who In
sst that the neiShborhood has become
the mecca of the lame, the halt and the
| blind, to the detriment of heir peace OF
mind. 1t will be fought to the last ap-
| peal, lest the little wooden tabernacle
| r.na,t tho soa,as v,beraip all Syria
| brought to the foot of the Galilean hill
all that were taken of divers diseases
and torments and those possessed of
devils.
Spread Of DOwic's Fame.
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with each wear. One tabernacle led to
two one nress to 81 publishtng house
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are promises, nilprinapes TO Zion as de-
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This has all happened since the day
the painters labeled his sanctuary in a
yay To attract the eyes of the visitors
tn the worlds fair. It was fourd at
this. outset there was no Statute under
which Mr. Dowie might be prosecuted
He claimed only to conduct a church.
to nre,n,h his own orthodoxy. to IN
terpret the Bible. This was his right.
he claimed. under the constitution. He
made his defenses ON this line until the
council passed an ordinance that all
hospitals must be licensed He read
the act but refused to be disturbed. He
denied that his institutions were hos
pitfalls; urged the dictionary as proof.
He told the authorities he had no physl-
clans. no nurses. no medicines, no
wards. mo patients His building, he
plsisted. was his home: the people
therein his guests.
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