The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-11

DOW1e- Inc state journal mas JUST
received from Mrs. Nation the follow
ing, which is a copy of her letter to
DOWie:
So West Twenty-fifth ST.,
New York, Oct. 81, 1903
Mr.. J. A. Dowie, Fifth Avenue hotel:
You have ignored my first letter.
therefore write you for the second
time to challenge you again to prove
your claim to being Elijah III. the
Restorer. and make you an offer to
debate the question in public. If you
will accept my challenge 1 will furnish
the house and make you a present of
$500
If you have anything to say for
yourself or any scripture text with
which to defend your claim am will
ing to meet YOU in public to challenge
it or debate the question with you.
You have come before the people
with broad and bold assertions. In the
name of justice it is demanded they
be investigated.
That you may not meet me unpre-
pared. l present you herewith the line
of argument by which I intend to
prove you false prophet. It would
be Well for you to observe the words
of St. Paul. He says:
Prove all things and hold fast all
that which is good.
Prove your ourselves.
Always be ready to give reason
for the faith that is in you.
BE open epistles Qetters) known
and read of all men"
The Bible makes it impossible for
me to believe in you.
1 have searched the Bible through
and through to find the call for Elijah
Ill 1t is not there, and what is more
the Bible distinctly proves there shall
not be an Elijah III.
To prove this, I shall refer you to
several quotations from the Bible. and
will begin with Malachi As the only
passage you have ever quoted to prove
your claim. It reads
Behold. I will send you Elijah. the
prophet, before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the Lord
And he shall turn the heart of the
children to the fathers. lest come and
smite the earth with curse
This prophecy is fulfilled in John the
Baptist as so stated in Luke lib which
says:
! But the angel said unto him. Fear
not ZachaTias, for they prayer is heard
and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee
! a son and thou shalt call him name
John:
'' And thou shalt have joy and glad
ness and many shall rejoice at his
birth:
For he shall be great in the sight
of the Lord and shall drink neither wine
nor strong drink. and he shall be filled
with the Holy Ghost from his mother
| womb: I
And many of the children of Isreal
shall he turn to the Lord their God;
And he shall go before Him Christi
/ in the power and spirit of Elias (IElias
is the Greek for the Hebrew of Elijah)
to turn the hearts of the fathers TO the
! children and the disobedient to the wis
/ dom Of the just; to make ready peo-
| pie prepared for the Lord
! The great and dreadful day of the
| Lord" referred to in Malachi, was the
| crucifixion of the Son of God.
John the Baptist was the messenger
sent before that dreadful day TO an
nounce the advent of our Lord and &c
| linn him Thus T6SITc
! IS the only one that can turn the hearts
of men.
: Christ said: THE law and prophets
| were until John and if We will receive
it. this is Elias which was for to come, "
showing that John was the prophet and
the only Elijah which was for to
come
And again in Matthew 17:10 beginning
And his disciples asked him saying:
| Why then say the scribes that Elias
must first conner
And Jesus answered and said unto
II IN: Elias truly shall first come anc
Il store all things.
Now. Mr.. Dowie. if these words were
not qualified. you might, perhaps, just
" say of yourself Z am the Re
storer." But right here you encounter
a barrier which closes that claim for
ever against you, and it comes with
the beginning of the next verse, the
twelfth. which reads:
But I say unto you that Elias is
come already and they knew him not
but have done unto him whatsoever
they listed. Likewise shall the sor
OF man suffer OF them
Then the disciples understood that
he snake unite them of John the
2aptiSt."
This last verse proves you, John Alex
ander Dowie, the alleged Elijah III
the Restorer, q fraud and such Z
dreadful liar.
The second verse in the second
chapter of T-ava,a-sor-s was writer
possibly IN anticipation of your com
ing, for ii says;
Il know thy works and thy labor
and thy patience and how thou cansi
not bear them which are eviIs anC
Thou hast tried them which say thai