Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-01-19
GREAT RELIGIOUS CITY.
! JohnA. Dowie to Build a Modern
Zion Near Waukegan, Ills.
10 WI0KEDNEss TO BE WITHIN IT

There WIZ be a Temple and Two.
Faetories. ard the Ill Will Be Heal
ed There. Says the Promoter Of
the Future City-site Already Pur-
chased.
John Alexander Dowie is the leader
Of q peculiar sect which holds Il belief
that Chicago has beer SO wicked that
destruction will, overtake the city and
not far away on the lake shore there
will arise 4 great religious city. So
firm are they in the conviction that
they are to be founders of a new Zion
that they have chosen its site.
They have bought or have an option
upon 6.OOO acres of land near Wauke-
gan, Benton township. Ills, and there
the future city is to arise where AL
men are to be pure and good. says the
New York Herald. 1t is asserted they
.have paid an extravagant price. but
with the exception OF the farmers who
have sold their lands O" received mon.
ey to bind a sale there is greet 1isap-
pointment in the ntghborhood. The
people had hoped that some great man
ufacturng ci1y WAS to be started. prob
ably the Prick Rockefeller Steel works.
Though they are. as y rule, q religious
and churchgoing community, there is
the feeling that there might be more
substantially in the treasures laid up
on earth by the multimillionaireS than
in the promised wealth Of Dowie's
city of Zion.
DOWie is man OF great personal
magnetism. a dreamer, who believes
that. though the purchase of land be at
even a great price. the site having
been di"inely revealed there is to grow
q city so good and great that it will
shame all the world into righteousness.
Ground is to be broken for temple
early in May with most impressive
ceremonies The ill are to be healed.
Dowie Declares and the world is to
receive its first revelation Of what
the modern Zion is to he. Later. build
ing Of rWo Factories. the Industrial be-
ginnings Of the city. is to begin. One
{ Is to be for the making of shoes and
! the other is TO be lace factory. which
], Dowie says he will bring to the
[ golden city from England.
4 Next on the programme will be the
! laying OF the cornerstone for the tenn
/ pie Of Zion. and then there are to be
pOrtents in the heavens, which may be
read by all men except those incloseu
! In the Chicago streets with their tall
:: buildings. and even they are to hear
of these things and go into the fields
I to see.
Dowe is then to follow the example
of the German emperor and go on a
triumphal tour Of the Holy Land. He
hopes to enter the gates of Jerusalem
on an ass and in SO far as he can. act
as the Master did. In the meantime
: Dowie goes about with bodyguard
Of well armed believers in the coming
community, where there is to he no sin
4 and no illness, and there are perlia ps
1000 enthusiasts who entertain plans
that put in the shade the hopes OF the
Mormons.
Dowie. who calls himself general
overseer of the Christian Catholic
church. was born in Scotland about 6G
years ago. He was educated fe1 the
ministry III the Eli:5urgh seminary.
He appeared in Australia about IS
years ago and started grocery store.
He was elected to the common council
of Melbourne and then opened a taber-
nacle. preaching the gospel and taking
occasion to condemn tie council. His
grocery store soon became Il church.
He says moi Of 5000 ult;l dragged
him out Ut his church and tllveaieneI
to lync. him.
He was given 81 days 10 leave and
says that upon his arrival in San Fran
cisco he had seven purses Of gold pre-
sented to him by his followers in AUS.
tralia. lie organized q church in San
Francisco and adopted the theory Of
healing by prayer. He convinced many
that spectacles were useless and eff
fected some alleged cures.
=: Coming to Chicago the year before
the Worlds fair, he started a tent sery-
ice On what later became the Midway
I plaisance. At Sixty-second street and
Madison avenue he constructed frame
Zion tabernacle and ran hospital in
= COuueCtlOu VIII IL. ne DeCGAsS euSdS
ed in a costly legal war with the state
of Illinois on the charge Of conducting
q hospital without 4 license. but won
in the courts.
He is now the lessee of the old St.
Paul's Episcopal church in Chicago,
: with seating capacity Of $500. His
home Is in the seven story hotel at
Twelfth. street and Michigan avenue
! known as Zion home. having accom-
modatjons for 800 persons. He is also
y lessee Of n hall at Thirteenth street and
I Michigan avenue. where he has print
81 iAg establishment, with Il perfecting
press, three duplex presses and many
III Job presses, 11S stands and chapel of
90 union printers. The building is also
the home of the Zion bank, a wealthy
institution. and the Zion City Land and
Il Investment association.