Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16


Happy and Joined Dowie's sect.
Piper Proved an Apt Pnpii and lie
Now I'm Fair Way TO Succeed
DOwie as the Head of the zionists.
Special TO the Register.
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. 15.-To so
slight a thing as the lack OF couple OF
inches in the length OF pretty Phila-
delphia girls leg is Zion, the Zion oe
John Alexander Dowie OF Chicago. in
debted for its present temporary head.
the leader who takes the place of the
remarkable Dowie himself while he is
in Europe engaging simple minded En-
glishmen to work Ia the Zion gardens
at about Sc day. William Hammer
Piper is the head OF the Dowieitas
while Dowie is In Europe.
Piper was the real power in the
Mansfield disturbances. He It was
who sent the elders 20 the resentins
town over and over and he went there
himself and, the irreverent OF Mans
field believe, actually prayed for trou-
be. When Dowie went 10 Europe ia
be gone an indefinite length OF time,
he placed the leadership OF Zion In thu
hands OF Piper, giving him the title OK
Acting General overserr.
Before he had been simply overseer.
and one OF the youngest OF the over
seers. His rise in Zion has been Ma
poleonic.
Piper is a Philadelphia, and cana
of a family OF Dunkards, sect almost
as odd as the Dowieites but which In
all its long history has not aroused az
much antagonism as the Dowieites
during the short time the latter has
been generally noticed. Piper was q
drummer for a living, but as he trav-
eled about the country, mostly In Penn
sylvania, selling goods he also preached
a good deal for the Dunkard or Chris
tan Brethren denomination
For years Piper had loved pretty
Quaker girl, burt she would not m4Ify
him. She loved Piper, too, Dr.
would not marry him besm1aa
One OF Her LimDl l3yl
than the other and N 1s too sensi-N
tive about her deformity 10 think OF
marrying. For years this little lack
of an inch or two stood between Piper
ana his happiness and he despalred OF
winning the girl he loved. They de-
cided to give each other up. TO be mere
ly friends, and separated, Piper travel
ing further afield in mis- commercial
trips and trying 20 forget the girl he
loved. Then the girl became interest,"
ed In Dowie and his works. She went
TO Chicago for a time and was treated
by Dowie himself 1t IL said that the
prayers of Dowle were entirely success
full and that after the leader OF Zion
had prayed with her a number OF times
the young ladys legs were made OF
equal length All this so impressed Pr
per that he give up his business and
went TO Chicago and spent year there
under Dowies teaching. AT the end OF
this time he was made an elder In Zion
and married the sweetheart whose
Limb Had been Lengthened.
Cleveland gave Piper the start in the
councils OF Zion that has placed him in
the exalted position he now has, al
though his rise was rapid from tho
first After being made an elder no
was first sent 20 Cincinnati where no
remained few months and then no
was sent 10 Cleveland Here he was in
charge of the Zion Taoernacle on 0nta-
rio street until something less than a
year ago, building UP the DowIeIte
membership TO well toward hundred.
he was recalled to Chicago and put ia
charge OF all the missionary work o.
the state. and when the Mansfield riots
began TO develop he became the leader
OF the Dowieite side OF the trouble.
Here, In the midst Of the riot OF indiE-
nation that the Dowieites stirred up he
added new laurels in Zion 10 his repu-
tation and made the kind Of a recoFA
that Dowle likes in his discipIes
When Dowie went TO Europe he plac-
ed the young elder from Cleveland, who
had meanwhile been advanced 70 tia
Office of oyerseer,
In Immediate Charge
OF Zion and made aim the head OF thu
organization for the time being. al
though Dowie himself remains in con-
troll so far az Is possible In his absence
from the country. Dowisite officials
say that no arrangement has been
made for the succession 20 Dowle.
should he fail 10 return from Europe 70
resume bis place al the head Of Zion,
but they say that Piper f. most
apt OF all the officers or Zion TO
be Dowie's successor. Dowie Is well
advanced in years and a few years may
see the husband Of the Philadelphia
girl whose limb was short, the head Ut
the organization 20 whose founder she
attributes her cure 81 the degormits II
he makes a. much money out Of # a.
the Chicago newspapers have saEA
Dowie made and IS making he viii have