The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02


recen. attempts to analy2o and classify
him las succeeded in picturing to the
reader the actual man. one reads, hu, one
does not see and hear.
The curious thing about Do%ip is that
when one does see and hear. il becomes
case of still the wonder grew" The first
time one sees him wave his white mutton
leg sleeves and hoars the stream of violent
epithets come lspng through his patri-
aichal beard, It IL little exciting
The second time, with the same mutton
leg wavings. the same cpithets andthe same
lisp, the same stories and the same hula
baloo of shouting Liars Thieves! Robbers
Bosh, Farce Rubbish" and 70 Oh, it really
gets TO be bore
The wonder grows that his followers
have not got tired Of being thus bored.
For they are bored They show it plainly
enough whenever Dowie Frances of upon
the old themes.
He is incurably skittish AT the sight Of
certain things. Masonry Freemasonry-
always sends him OF at a gallop At mem
ton of the newspapers he kicks and
thrashes around. oratoricaily speaking, until
he has demolished the dictionary and got
himself into white heat Upon these
occasions he fairly sweats cpithet~
Every Sunday afternoon he call. the same
old objects of his wrath 10y the same old
names and takes up the greater part Of three
hours in doing il. Several thousands
of his followers sit and patiently listen
to these GRADES, but their applause j. per-
functory, their laughter generally feeble,
their amen> lukewarm.
Yet the next moment you may hear
your neighbor talking earnestly TO his
heighbor about the power of Zion in turn
ing people from sin. And when Dowie
occasionally forgets the topics which make
him skittish and settles down to earnest
and thrilling appeals for purity and honesty
and godlncss, their enthusiasm leaps up To
meet the exhortation.
II is a mistake TO think that Dowie's
followers go Sunday after Sunday To hear
him call names They look and act a. if
they had got more than enough of that
sort of thing.
II really seems pity that Elijah the
Third cannot take more closely after Eli jah
the First Tine original Elijah was on
intimate terms with ravens. II is too bad
for Elijah the Third that the traditional
@little bird" does not whisper to him that
he is OVERRIDING the epithet style of ha-
rangue
Here are some quotations from a single
address. one of the regular Sunday after
noon series which Dowie is delivering in
the Chicago Auditorium.
rus evp,,cp
The service, 10y the way, is entirely I'M
like that OF the average religious eccen-
trlc. everything about II, except Doves
TRADE itself, Is dienihed and well ordered
Inc famous vested ctolr, numbering
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po"lE ON riE PLATFORM
On the Platform the choir fills the tiers
OF seats at the back the elders ST on a
nns"',N l"H'l l'l'' t''u' -, .''.l ~ wi
John Alexander. alas Eliiah the Third
behind the desk
That il. there j. a chair placed there
for him, but he rarely occupies il for moro
than ten AnnuteS during the entire service
and that is while the choir sings the "Te
Deum." The remainder Of the three hours
he stands out In front of the desk, almost
continuously exporting or denouucing,
generally the latter.
As soon a. he has reached the platform,
Dowie lays aside his mortarboard. Presto
all the other men lay aside their mortar
boards. Dowe, who is nothing If not
literal, evidently believes that Paul meant
II when he said that women should not
uncover their h ads in the churches.
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