The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-29

authorities, who objected to his new
doctrines.
, In 1888 he landed in San Francisco,
with Mrs. Dowie and their two children
One was a son named after Gladstone
and the other daughter Esther A.
Dowie. His son has just graduated
from the University Of Chicago. The
daughter will enter that institution of
learning next fall.
In 1890 he went to Chicago He says
he wanted to fight the deveil on his
own ground" He established healing
homes. They were in residence parts
of the city. There were deaths in them
and as DIR" Dowie used no drugs
only prayer and the laying on of hands
the physicians feared for the public
health and an ordinance calling the
homes hospitals and requiring that
medicines be used was passed. Under
it "Dr." Dowie was arrested more than
one hundred times. The ordinance is
now a dead letter. He has eight homes
and is free from arrest
In 1896 he was so prominent in con-
sequence of the agitation concerning
him and his faith healing methods that
he thought the time was ripe for the es-
adjustment of the church he intended
to found when he left Australia. He
founded it, calling it the Christian
Catholic Church of Zion, and made
himself it's head, with the title of gene
raj oVerseer. He personally selected ell
ders to help him and organized white
robed choir Of men and women, The
choir contains excellent singers and is
thoroughly drilled. DIR" Dowe writes
some of the songs it sings. He also set
up printing plant and began the pub
LEGATION of weekly paper, He
called it Leaves of Healing. In it are
| printed his sermons, articles by Mrs.
| Dowe and testimonials from persons
who believe he has cured them of varl-
Gus ailments.
He drew many of his followers from
the Methodist and Roman Catholic
/ chul ches. Many others had no faith
until he came.
I The impression that his converts are
fanatics and persons Of weak charac-
( ter is wrong. Lawyers and business
men, artists and writer's are to be found
in his tabernacle. Many of them came
to him because they believed in the BIZ
Bile as a whole. They thought the BIZ
Bile was not being taught as a whole in
other churches
Laborers came to him, many of them
as a matter of economy at first. When
they entered Zion they had to forswear
the use Of tobacco, drugs, liquor and Sc
cret societies. In exchange they gave
Dowie 10 per cent. of their income, no
matter what it was With this he
made further improvements in Zion.
Thousands came in. With them
came money.
DIR" Dowie founded a Zion college
at which the young members of Zion
are instructed. 1t is a parochial school,
dominated by the general overseer
It's instructions are interpreted with
many prayers, but the college gives a
sound general education.
SO many members came into the
church that it's head thought a bank
would be a good thing for them-and
for him. SO he founded one. 1t is a
private bank, and loans money to men,
bars. 1t gives per cent. interest on
deposits No one has ever questioned
the honesty with which it is conducted
nor it's business success.
A building which had been a down.
town hotel was moved to Michigan
avenue and Twelfth street, in Chicago, /
and OR" Dowie leased If and called It
Zion Home, 1t Is within block of the !
Illinois Ceptral and Michigon Central |
railroad stations and within five min |
uta, wall, of the Auditorium Hotel.
There are three hundred rooms and |
almost as MANY nrices for them. Men
and women come from all pnrts of the
country to he treated at Zion Home on |
the faith healing 11lan. Or" Dowie |
and the members of his family live
there during Il part of each year
PRAYER meetings are held there every
dav There is a regular discinline and
eacb natron must conform to II "Dr"
Dowie prays with the sick and asks the
nravers of the whole corlgrega ton of
zion in difficult cases on the books of
the Institution there are records of the
MANY cures most of which arc of mar
vous disorders hut some are Of chronic
diseases few weeks ago Or" Dow
ie decided the home was so good an in
vestnent that zto, shouId own n CO
he bought the great building and the
valuable ground on which II stands,
and the faithful put this purchase
down as another mark of the success
of the church.
There is one place in the United