The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
SECRET OF DOWIR'S BIRTH
4 SENSATIONAL CONFESSION AT
 LAST NIGHTS MEETING.

"Prophet" Admits He is Not the Son
 of John Murray DoSyie, of Essex, Ea.,
 but of B British Army Officer of High
 FamtIy. szf-
 New York, Oct. 2e.-In broken voice, with tears streaming down his face and his body shaking with the most power full emotion. John Alexander Dowie stood on the platform in Madison Scuare Garden tonight besore an au- dience of 10000 persons and announced that in truth he was not the son of John Murray Dowie of Essex, Ia., from whom he takes his patronymic. but Of a British army officer of high family by a~"scotch marriage" He heaped villifieation and denunciation upon John Murray Dowie. who he declared had made his mother believe her marriage to Dowie's father was shameful, and the army officer having been taken away by his relatives, his mother in the first flush of her shame had sought to give her son name by marrying John Murray Dowie.
 The revelation was made at the end of an hours tirade against the press of this city, it's treatment of his work and himself being styled a conspiracy of |falsehood." The reporters he denounced as yellow dogs, poisonous reptiles, who have wrecked thousands of homes ay1, ,Ie.$ $NF r+e,ss N Dowie violently denounced the entire press Of the city, excepting one paper, and in passionate rage declared the yellow dogs, should be muzzled by a. censorship law if the country is to be saved.
 In this way he led up to the publica- tion this morning oe extract from let ters passing between himself and John Murray Dowie. indicating Dowie's re- nunciation of the latter as parent and which were responsible for the general overseer's partial exposition of the great secret of his life.
 Shouting at one moment in a fit of violent rage at the newspapers. MT. Dowie would the next moment speak in the most gentle voice of his mother and wfse. ss
 The great audience was moved by his evident emotion when he spoke of his mother and wife. Women wept, and at times bursts of applause greeted his declarations.
 Il denounce the publication of these letters because they are false in. many parts. large extracts being omitted thereby distorting the meaning of the rest"
 MT. Dowie up to this point had told the history of the letters from his knowledge. and explained that he had. laid the matter a year ago before some of his. high church officials. Other overseers verified the truth of
 Dr.. Dowie's statements.
 Now, that this has come before the world4 he said. T had better tell the story. My mother was a noble woman. She was tricked into a Scotch marriage
 with a British officer of high standing,
 whose relatives hurried him out Of the
 way and my dear mother, to hide her
 shame. married that vile scoundrel | Dowie. If I had known of it twenty years ago
 it would have given me my right place in the world. What that place might
 have been is not for me to say. I shall
 never seek it for if It carried with it
 the finest ducal coronet in the United
 Kingdom would not want to change it for the office hold and the ministry I
 minister to god. | The last words, pronounced with soI- emnity over the great still garden fell
 on the audience like an irrevocable dic-
 turn and in a few seconds great burst
 of applause greeted the speaker 1 My father was a man of high stand ing. He led one of the great charges in the Crilnean war and died like a soldier
 at the head of his troops. Dowie likened himself to David and
 Solomon, but added that he did not
 consider he was illegitimate At the
 close Of the address Dowie pronounced this benediction:
 God look down upon the irresponsi- ble band of criminals who write the papers and publish their lies and have
 mercy on them. Have mercy, oh God, and grant grace to the country and may it muzzle and if needs be destroy the
 newspapers. ~ h.