The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23

which promises in one breath both
hearts desires, would flourish and prob
agate itself were it taught by even
feebler fakirs than Dowie and his lieu
tenant with his vulgarisms, his empty
| little jokes, his manifest self-satisfaetion
| and his theatrical poses 49,
There is no creed under heaven, how
| ever preposterous, that has not it's fol-
| lowing. There is no prophet, however
lacking in greatness and goodness, who
may not, like Dowie, call himself Elijah
! and be sure that some one or two or
| three or three thousand, as the case may
! be, Will not believe in him.
! Since DoWie'S assertion that he us Elf
1 jah those who are familiar with his his
tory declare the incipient madness of this
! clever man Of business who runs a bank
/ from which no financial statement is ever
| issued; who POUNDS a colony and estab=
! fishes lace industries worth millions, re-
/ tanning absolute control Of all FUNDS, and
1 also the power to take from the list OF
/ shareholders the name of any one he
/ deems undesirable; who skillfully makes
| prosecutions appear prosecutions to his
followers, So that every attempt by the
civil authorities to make Dowie amen
able to law is interpreted by the fanatics
who worship him as a sort of martyr
dom, demanding that they rush 10
strengthen their leaders, position with
voluntary financial contributions.
Dowie's ambition, like other passions,
is cumulative. He viii not be content
with what he has. The other day he
created the position of general overseer
of women's work for Jane Dowie, his
wife. who has recently returned from
Young Gladstone Dowie. who replied 10
a fellow STUDENTS criticism of the ~
he Wore his beard when he attended en-
cagO university, Christ wore His Like
hC an o6JIp cd oG a
He will be solicitor general in time, in
stead of the well known Chicago attOr-
ney, who keeps Dow1e well within the
letter of the law Miss DOWie is still Gno Il
say where Dowie wa stop? He will have
visions, and his followers VIII be guided
by them. Yet, with all his power and
pretenSe, there has never been a hint
of that immortality which sooner or later
wrecks most communisms. ~,.
GREATNESS HEDGED IN.
Gradually, as Dowieism spreads and
Dow4e is raised higher upon the pima
Gle Of peoples credulity. a greater with
drawal from actual contact with his fol-
lowers enSueS. Daily the difficulty of
access to this man increases. He justl-
fes his luxurious apartments, his private
car. his retinue, his $500 portrait Of him
self by-'The pope lives in luxury, why
should not I?''
1T is like trying to see royalty-to try
to see these people, a pale-faced woman
said to me at Dowies hospital. 81 wait
ed live hours the other day to have him
pray for me, and didn't see him after all.
It is almost as hard with Overseer Piper
and the rest.
The hospital where the two deaths &C.
CURED last week without medical at
greater publicity and another triumph
over the authorities of Chico is stu
ated behind Dowies busy bank, md both
of them are contained in the great seven
story building on the corner of Michigan
avenue and Twelfth street. 1t is like a
very busy hotel office, the elevate dying
ccaselessly up and down, the &5rk at
his counter answering queries, ringing
Workmen. The people gathered here.
though, are the lame and the halt and
the bind babies half dead wheeled in in
carriages; whispering hopeful dying
women and Just now the men delegates
from many states to the convention Just
closed; unfrocked ministers of older
creeds, failures in the more successful
churches, with something of the laity's
1nforma1ity in their mien and yet with
leaning to the style of dress which once
distinguished them.
There is always, there will always be
floating population of dissenters as
long as the hope of Immortality springs
afresh in every human breast. Establish
ed churches will never be able to con
tain these emotional, hystericaI, fanatic,
Self-Sacrihcing souls, born to be deIIIded
spiritually and defrauded materially.
And he, at least. makes good use of
the raw material Of enthusiasm the will
ing hands and feet that serve him. believ-
ing they serve the Lord, and surely serv-
ing humanity, those that are weaker
even than themselves, with their zeal,
their tracts, their ardent absurd beliefs
and their faith In a man who applies his
share of the genius for combination, the
talent of the century, to his religion, and
in his religion therapeutical communism
finds material which a Pierpont Morgan
sees in ships and steel and merely ma
: terial things.