New-York tribune., 1900-08-11
TO ENTER ZION In PoMP.
THE REV. DR.. DowIE STARTS FOR
JERUsALEM,s q
HE HAS AMAssED RICHES IN AcHICAGo
WHICH HE CONSIDERS OF srEAT-
EGIC IMPORTANCE" IN HIS
WAR ON SIN.

EGIC IMPORTANCE" IN HIS
WAR ON SIN.
The Rev Dr. John Alexander Dowie. the~ gen.
erai overseer" of the Christian Catholic Chursh IN
Zion" arrived I'm the city yesterday. He will SAL
AZ an early hour this morning for England on klis
way 10 the Holy Land. DR.. Dowie left Chict@o
on Thursday. As HIS train drew ont from I've
station his congregation. which had gone TO seeS
him off. sang A Zionite hymn OF farewell on
board the train were DR. DowIe's twenty-seven
trunks not TO mention tventy-four satchels.
valises and other odds and ends OF baggage Dr.
Dowfe rode I'm a special car. compliment o1ered
10 him by the managers OF the Michigan Central
Railroad. He had with him his wife. daughter
son son-in-law private secretary. private financial
secretary. expert stenographer and valet Captain
Wheeler. the passenger agent or the newt ofh
Central in this city went TO Poughkeepsie to meet
DR. Dowie and his party.
when the train reached New-York Or. Dowie
asked 20 be taken 10 the Murray Hill Hotel few
steps from the station. He refused 10 roe III an
omnibus and ordered gsteTng landaus
DR.. Dowie took luncheon he'd nap. ana the
tvo landaus were recalled and the party Of divine
healers rode down Fifth-ave- to Barclay-st. and
thence crossing the ferry in their carriages 20 the
Graf waldersee. on which they will sail for Eng
land this morning.
DR. Dowfe kept moving about the vessel. fol-
lowed by HIS numerous retinue. who refused to
allow any approach within hailing distance
Of him. Finally DR. Dowie became eNasperated
and decided 10 some reporters
DR. DowIE's FIRST REVELATION
With wave Of the hand that awed tens OF
thousands people. and has at the same time col
lected 81 10000 or SS 0oo000 DR.. Dowie waved off
the private fnancia! secretary and beckoned the
expert stenographer for DR.. Dowie has all his
remarks strangers taken down. He sketched
briefly the early part Of his life He was born In
Edinburgh in ls47 and in 1890 he went TO Australia
with his parents, starting a grocer. his instinct
for business having been precocious. He studied
theology. and ordained in the CongreSa-
tonaI Church The office of Minister of Education in
New South Wales offered TO him by Sir Harry
Parkes but Dr. Dowie declined it,
About this time revelation was made TO him
He saw that there were various schools of medicine
which in conflict with one another. He said
in part
! began to see that there must be some 9th :
and better way OF healing people than by means OF
medicine. ] went to Edinburgh and studied -s at
the university. discovering that science was purely
speculative / noticed the opposition OF systems.
a remarkable thing happened. One night 1 was
sick. almost dead in fact. went TO a doctor. but
room. and began % read the Bible Before morn
ing became convinced that in the Scriptures was
20 be found the only means Of regaining my health.
asked God to heal me therefore. and in an instant
my prayer was answered. jumped to my feet per
fectiy well. Upon my return Australia / began
TO advocate % i divine heang d bea people no
they did. People came by thousands. No place
j now felt the necessity of making my discovery
better known. and sought TO reafirm the primi-
To do this found that It would be necessary to
reorganize the Church. and although l shrank from
For this reason l came the United States. not
Gode5 Cate s On june | @ e and for two oye years
worked in California. meanwhile forming the In
ternauonal Divine Healing ASSOCIATION. Of which
Was the hrst president In 1880 became con-
field for giving battle to the devil went 10 Chi
cago. therefore, in 1890. On February %: 1895. /
By Zion mean the kingdom Of God. intending the
Church TO be the servant of the kingdom, and for
A lively opposition started once. But
heaiing These people We're promptly cured The
doctors few into pet and aroused the Board Of
Health TO take action against US; but We per
severed An ordinance was passed which was
oensed. We fought the ordinance. however, and
During the fight I arrested more than one
hundred times The one advantage Of r, il al & was
grew from four hundred and fifty to fifty thousand
members.
HIS SECOND GREAT REVELATION.
At this critical moment DR.. Dowie put his bust
wits together and had the second great revela
tion Of his lifetime. He started publishing house
which printed tons of pamphlets and other ltera-
ture. In this literature were included Leaves OF
Healing which has average weekly circulation
Of fifty thousand copies: a fortnightly magazine
called The Coming city and monthly magazine
called A Voice from Zion simultaneously DR..
DoWie formed the Zion City Bank and the Zion
five hundred acres of land half way in direct line
two and one-half miles the lake front. This DR..
DoWie intends to colOniZe. II is 10 be called Zion
City. DR.. Dowie owns 1t all. He sells tabernacle
sites. house lots for the divinely healed and those
who heal alike lie i going TO import entire
lace factory from Nottingham. England. The form
er owner of the IA tory Samuel Stevenson has been
to zion Cisy. Wherever Zion missionaries preach,
The natives 10 Zion lace. DR.. Dowie
has devised many schemes for the spread Of his re-
lgl0us convictions. The Zion bank IS to have sew
eral branches. each potent argument for divine
healing He is strict in regard 10 converts. They
must give One-tenth Of their incomes TO the sup
port OF the Zion industries which Dr. Dowie owns
i'm cooperative way. This tithe might fall a
little heavy some or the poor people in Zion 4
ranks, so il necessary provide
Of making IL easy for them. DR.. DoWie hit upon
the following method: None of the 1.-THE payers
are TO bet on hOrseraces. pay dues 10 secret So
cieties. waste their money theatres, indulge
in liquors, drugs tobacco similar expensive
things.
DR.. Dowies present trip to the Holy Land is in
fuifment Of a which ne made many years
ago. He vowed that If his life spared he
should go TO the morning rise the
hills Of Jerusalem at the dawn OF the twentieth
century He intends. Incidentally to add to his
missionary force In Paris which is one of the
greatest lace markets in the world. He is also
going Syria. and perhaps China and Japan. He
was kept busy last night in the library OF the
Graf Waldersee Bidding his friends goodby. His
secretaries were no less busy with the twenty
trunks and the twenty-fOur satches. DR..
Dowie intends 20 return about February l. 1901
The community of Zion though but seven years
old has aInassed property worth at least 100000
all OF which is in the of DR.. John Alexander
DoVie trustee. but absolute owner