Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-09-19
DOVES BIG MISSION.
Zionist Leaders Plans to Evan
gelize New York.
EVERY HOUSE is TO BE VISITED.

Ruler of Zion City Intends That
None Shall Escape-Tracts Will BE
Observation-Disclosures Square Car
den to Be Headquarters of Invad-
ing Army, which VIII BE Trans
ported From Chicago In Ten spe-
ciaI Trains.
1t is not a mere dalliance with super
.atives to say that Or" John Alexan-
der Dowie, ruler of Zion City, near
Chicago, and head of the Christian
Catholic Church In Zion, is the busiest
and most optimistic man in Illinois
today, says the New York Herald
With all his other manifold tasks he
is concerning himself night and day
with the coming mission of his res
toration host to New York, when the
evangelization of the metropolis will
begin.
Plans for the invasion and the cam
paign to redeem New York from the
imps of darkness have been formulat-
ed to the smallest detail. Ten trains
have been engaged to transport the
host eastward. These will leave Chi
cage by various trunk lines, and all
are scheduled to arrive in New York
on Friday Oct. 16. Dowie's own train
will be the last to leave Zion City and
the first to reach New York.
In DoWies private car, which will be
magnifcently appointed and donated
| for the purpose by the Nickel Plate
road will ride elijah H." Mrs Dow
| lie, Gladstone DoWie, their attendants
and the immediate staff Of the general
overseer. This train is to reach New
| York at a quarter past Z o'clock on the
morning of Oct 16.
A complete telegraph system will be
! installed in this train in charge of
competent operator. By this means
| Dowie will receive hourly reports from
each of the other nine trains, giving
| its exact location, progress and such
| other information as may be deemed
| desirable to the leader Of the conquer
I ing host. Dowie will be the flying
king, giving his orders en- route to his
followers. Nine of the trains will con-
sist of ten day cars, with sleeping
| cars attached.
! Specific orders have been given by
| Dowie to the entire host that each
member must eat in Madison Square
| Garden, where extensive preparations
are being made to take care of the
restorationists. There will be no Law
ich ly of fY,iI1 lie,
in the eating of Them but the food is
to be wholesome, and two meals day
will be served for % cents.
Deacon Frank w. Cotton will be
commissary Of the host, and under his
! charge will be the entire kitchen staff
of Elijah Hospice-Zion City's name for
a hotel-Edina Hospice and Zion
to the cooking of the meals, the cooks
to work in relays, so that the work de-
volving upon each may be as light as
possible. Madison Square Garden will
present the spectacle of from 5000 to
5000 Zionists eating at once. Dishes
are to be taken along. These are al
ready provided for in Zion City.
and dinner at o'clock in the evening.
Every restorationist must be on hand
at the garden for these two meals. If
his appetite becomes too strong to
wait for the o'clock meal he may
buy lunch at an eating house in the
territory to which he will be assigned
for missionary work. The Zion band
of forty pieces will wake the echoes,
and the adult choir of $50 members and
the junior choir of 200 voices will
unite in the battle hymns Of the
church.
While in New York the host will
take part in the early morning meet
ings Of praise and prayer, at which
Dr. Dowie will deliver addresses on the
eleven commandments, taking one each
morning, and four other subjects,
which he will select for the fifteen
days. AS soon as possible after break
fast the companies will form their
seventies and leave Madison Square
Garden for the districts allotted to
them for the days work. At 10 o'clock
every morning the general overseer
will hold a meeting in Madison Square
Garden, at which the host will not be
present At these meetings Dowie
hopes to give divine healing teaching
and to spend much time with the i'll |
and suffering The members of the
host will be expected to return to
Madison Square Garden for their la |
=bors at 4 p. IA. A hot dinner of three
or four courses will be served at
p. ~ This will give ample time to get |
ready for the evening meeting There
are to be 10 afternoon meetings.
There will be street meetings in vari-
GUS parts of the city. These meetings
will not be so demonstrative as those |
held by the Salvation Army, but will |
be similar to them in that there will |
be speaking, praying and singing of
hymns.
The bulk of the work mapped out,
however, will consist of visitations,
members of the host going to business