The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

niTrouble with the Authorities.
 Dowie went to a theological semina- " in Edinburg. Then he went to Syd- ney, New South Wales. He was study ing the doctrines of the Congregational Church when. reading his Bible, He
 began his contentious that Christ meant to cure the body as we'll as the soul. He held that prayer, accompani- ed by the laying on of hands, would effect the cure required. He had a stomach trouble, held that he was about to die. said that physicians had given him up, and then asserted that he had prayed for a cure and had been cured. He began getting boisterous about the streets of Sydnay. He was put in jail for five days for the first offense. The next time a prison cell held him for thirty days. The ouutry becande too warm and he went to Mel bourne. where in 1878 he set ID the Free Christian Tabernacle" Fever was raging in the country, Ind he be- gan his practice of laying on of hands," There was more opposition and he left Australia. Dowie insists that the time was not ripe for the founding of his church and that he wanted ito travel" Resident of Syd- ney at the time asserted that the cit izens made up their minds that he would have ito travel" and Dowie consented to take the same view of matters.
 In 1888 he landed in San Francisco. He had his wife and two children and little money. The son was named af- ter Gladstone and recently graduated from Chicago University. The daugh-
 ter's name is Esther A. Mrs. Dowie pean trip. Before leaving Liverpool for home she sent a cablegram to her husband which required the payment of tolls amounting to $SS.
 Ability. to Get Money.
 Dowie's money getting ability was first demonstrated immediately after the landing at San Francisco. He was sitting in temperance hotel and lad just told his wife that he had asked God for $250." A few moments later, so Dowie contends, a man he had not seen for months came up and handed him $250. Those who have watched Dowie's career in Chicago talk of Davy Crockett and the coon when referring to the General Overseer" and ready money. Two years on the Western coast brought little advancement and Dowie came to Chicago in 1892. He asserted that he wanted to light the devil on his own ground" He orened | tabernacle at Stony Island Avenue | and Sixty-second Street and began his tirades against doctors and drugs He established healing homes." He used only prayer and his hands; no medi- cineS. Contagious cases were treated in the same way, and the authorities began to fear for the public health. Ordinances were passed, out Dowie's power only spread. As a result of this agitation Dcwie in 1895 reached what he wanted-he had the people talking about him. He concluded that the time vas ripe to es- tablish his faith. and the Christian Catholic Church in Zion" was planted.
 He selected elders to help him. He organized his white-robed choir of men and made plans for satin-lined robes for himself. He wrote songs for his singers, set up a printing pIant, and began issuing weekly paper. His sermons were all taken in shorthand | and reprinted in The Leaves of Heal ing, and these were scattered every where. He drew members from churches of every creed. He establish ed churches in many cities of the | central States. To all who came to
 him. he commanded abstinence from drugs. tobacco, liquor, and secret so- cietfes. In return he got a per cent | age of their incomes. He founded "Zion College" He found so many under his banner that he determined to establish bank, and he called for deposits. promising interest at ger cent. He obtained the lease to the hotel building at Twelfth Street and Michigan Avenue. This place has 300 rooms. and he fixed almost as many prices for them and the rooms were filled.
 Te established his headquarters there and his property has been extended from time to time by the opening of the ''Zion Juvenile School" the Zion Home for Working Girls" "Zion Refuge" the Zion bakeries" and a half dozen oth- CT similar institutions. He built a $50,000 summer home at White Lake, Mich, and gave this to his wife. It is an event in White Lake when the ar rival of Mrs. Dowie "and three maids" is reported. On a recent anniversary of the beginning of his work in Chicago he told his congregation that he had made $5,000,000 in Zion, but he added that he would be their servant and helper in wealth and position as he had been in his poverty.
 Makes a Trip to Europe.
 It was last year that he announced that he was going through Europe to the Holy Land. He was going to enter Jerusalem as Christ had done; he was
  He left Chicago in a private car, trav- cling like potentate. His followers cried and walled when they bade him goodbye. He got to England and to Paris, preaching his faith and occupy ing costly suites of rooms at nigh priced hotels. He never went to the Holy Land. He offered the excuse that Mrs. Dowie was ill and came home to push the Zion City land scheme.
 Dowie is 54 years of age-not old, as he told the coroner's jury at the in quest over the death of Mrs Judd. Ills beard and hair are white and his eyes are compelling. He dresses in tine most expensive clothes, always has his beard trimmed in the style shown in the Biblical paintings of old masters and well perfumed. He is well built physically and conveys the impression of power. His voice is resonant, and when he wills becomes the voice of dozen men.
 Some say he has the power of hyp- notism." said one of the elders who has withdrawn from Zion. Tt isn't that, though. It Is rather suggestion
 Coarse Names Spoken in Pulpit.
 He has habit of pronouncing every syllable of a word as if each letter were being struck with a hammer. He uses words which best express his meaning, not heinz checked by any I nEWE- IL