River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-02-13
PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED.
Divine Healing a Present Day Reality
Entertaining Letter from NJ B. KimbaII.
Curc.co tn

i AAAS~AtO. AAA.s ~ CD. o. lCJO.
EDITOR JoURNAL: To my mind the
most remarkable man now living
and who is destined TO become greater
in tile history of the Christian religion
than any one else who has lived since
the Gays of the Apostles, is Rev. John
Alexander Dowie, who as Christ's
steward now presides over the Divine
Healing Mission, located in this great
| and wicked city. Though my days of
hero worshipping are over / am con-
strained to believe that no other
| person now living is so closely in
| touch with the Almighty as is Doctor
| Dowie, the greatest evangelist now
| engaged in the work of calling sinners
to repentance. He is a native of
| Scotland where he was educated for
the Congregational ministry, which
he afterwards entered in Australia.
The creed of the Congregationalist is
conspicuous for its liberality, but it
| proved to be too narrow for the ex-
pansiye mind of the sturdy young
| Scotchman who went more deeply
| into the Word of God than has any
UNCONVENTIONAL church creed now in
existence. He explored depths in the
Holy Scriptures that were far beyond
i the reach of the churches of to-day,
and there ascertained for himself the
| fact that the covenant of Divine heal
| ing entered into, with the children of
| Israel fourteen hundred and ninety
years before the birth of Christ had
never been repented of or abrogated.
| Finding this to be true he very
naturally assumed that If said
covenant had never been revoked il
must be in force now. God has
abundantly justified the faith of this
explorer of His Holy Scriptures for
light and truth, and is to-day, using
him here in Chicago as He used the
| Apostles of olden times for teaching,
| and preaching, and healing. 1t was
| twenty years ago that Doctor Dowie
was endowed with this priceless gift
of the Holy Spirit, whose gifts your
readers will find enumerated in the
| twelfth chapter of first Corinthians,
and not long afterwards he severed
his connection with the Congregation
al church and became an evangelist,
going about doing good, teaching and
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom
TO the poor, without money and with
out price, and healing the people of
all manner of diseases, for He is with
him.
Within the limited space which you
can allot me | cannot say half what
| is in my heart to say concerning
this Mission, and must therefore
content myself with epitomizing in
measure.
The prayer of faith and the laying
on of hands, the mode of healing
employed in Doctor Dowie's ministry,
is preceded, except in emergency
cases, by the teaching and preaching
of pure and unadulterated religion as
Christ and his apostles taught and
preached it-not as the Christian
churches of the present day are teach
| ing it, The teaching begins with
baptism, salvation, healing and
holiness. 1t is a teaching which tells
you that you must abandon your
whiskey, tobacco, pork, medicines,
doctors and all else that detiles either
spirit, soul or body. 1t is a teaching
that requires sixteen ounces to the
pound, thirty-siX inches to the yard,
sugar free from sand and the adoption
of the Golden Rule. 1t is not a
teaching, however, that requires a
person TO appear as though he had
| lost his last friend and never expected
to find another. 1t counsels those
who accept it to be joyful and happy
in the possession of the purity and
peace which it brings.
Evidence is abundant here of the
present day reality of Divine healing,
all manner of diseases from cancers
to corns being healed here every week.
Scores of people given up by the
doctors to die are brought here to the
Lord for healing and are restored to
health, some of them instantaneous
ly. According to your faith be it
unto you /, like many others, am
taking my healing on the installment
plan, as the Doctor calls it when we
do not fall properly into line to receive
the entire blessing at once.
Doctor Dowie's work is a labor OF
love which he performs unstintedlv.
without money and without price for
his personal services in teaching, and
preaching and praying the prayer of
faith, and the laying on of hands, and
yet the combined power of the press,
the pulpit, and physicians, backed by
the city administration are arrayed
almost solidly against him, and the
outrageous prosecutions to which he
was subjected during the entire year
of 1895 was disgrace to civilization.
As the Divinely appointed messenger
of God he is pouring out MS lie Ior
suffering humanity, and yet he is
DtllR uCuOuuOCu fto
fraud by libelous press and the cry
is being Justify echoed by ministers of
the sO-called Christian religion.
When the ministers who are saved
take their seats around the Throne
there will be some puZzling surprises
in that locality.
Those who are coming here and
bringing with them all manner of
diseases to which human flesh is heir,
and returning to their homes healed
in spirit, soul and body, contented
and happyar stigmatiZed as religious
fanatics, and many of them who were
church members have been I'M
tremendously kicked out or the
churches to which they belonged for
no other offense than accepting God
as the healer of their body as well as
their soul and spirit. How does that
strike you as an example or In
tolerance?
Despite the malevolent persecution
to which Doctor Dowie was subjected
last year the Mission is stronger in
every department of its work than
ever before, and its founder is now
talking every Sunday afternoon to
from three thousand to five thousand
people who assemble, in the audi
forum to listen to him, and / want
| to saw to you that he is making things
very lively and interesting Tor the
minister, the doctor and the devil,
as we'll as beneficial to the great mass
| of the com mon people who are eager
| to greet him in that vast assembly
room. The Doctor says he is never
| so happy as when he is fighting the
devil, for then he knows he is doing
| Gods work. and the devil was thus a
| great source of happiness to him last
| year, but he will find plenty to do
this year in contending against the
many evils of this great and wicked
city, even should the ministers and
| doctors abandon the fight against
this fearless and intrepid ambassador
of the Almighty.
The work of this Mission seems now
| to have reached point at which an
ecclesiastical organization appears to
be not only desirable but necessary
for greater efficiency in the advance
ment Of the cause, and it is probable
| that from it will soon be evolved the
| Christian Catholic church, concern
ing which will speak more at length
in another letter, should you care to
hear from me again.
/ have attended the meetings held
at this Mission thirteen weeks and
was guest in one OF the Divine
Healing homes during six weeks OF
l. IN