The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-21
MRS. NATION IS ELECTED
Insisted on Investigating the
 Leader of Zion.
MT. Dowie's Order to de Seated is
 Ignored by the Kansas Smash CT and the Police Take |f c Hand.

New York, Oct. 2o-About 10, 900 persons, half of whom were Zionists, attended John Alexander Dowie's early service in Afadison Square Garden today, where he preached on "Blasphemy." He then said ne was going to meet the editors of the New York papers at his hotel and re- cuested his followers to pray for him.
 The six hundred members of the Dowie choir will join the house visitation force. tncreasing It's number to LAO. Deacon Speicher said the work was greater than anticipated.
 Dowie's chief aides, his wife and his son are about to leave him for a trip abroad. They will start Thursday from this city. taking the steamer Saxon Sunday from Boston. They will go first to England, then to Australia, where Mrs. Dowie's s eamily still lives. They do not expect to return to the United States until next Juiy.
 MT, Dowie. arrayed in evening clothes talked for two hours tonight before great throng in Madison Square Garden, the burden of his talk being denuncia- tion of the clergy and the press.
 Mrs Nation Present.
 Carrie Nation, who occupied a seat near the front, asked ''Elijah'' to answer some questions. He refused and ordered her to Sit down. Dowie then praised tn spirit bn which Mrs. Nation had warred on the saloon, but said she used wrong methods. Mrs. Nation again demanded the prfvi- hege of asking questions.
 At once the Zion guards surrounded her and, with the help of several policemen. ejected her.
 At this several hundred persons at the back of the Garden made rush to get &but. The entrance was blocked in a mo- |nent and Dowie,, shouting that the way had been blocked by the crowd outside, brought there for the purpose of creat- Ing a disturbance, ordered the zionists to Seep their places. He then requested the hudience to be seated and after having khe side exits opened, he directed the au- Ziience to rise in sections and go out at &he sides.
 X DowieC had announced that he would repFv sto asa attack by the Rev. Dr. James MI Buckley, published in Q magazine ant year. But he only referred to this Isubtect casually. He attacked the Rev. Nor. P. S. Henson, Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, 1HI. P. Morgan and others and announced that hereafter he proposed to keep the Nnewspaper reporters out of his meetings.
 The meeting was one of continuous dis order.
 Tshe Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst today 4nt an open letter to MT. Dowie as fol-
 Letter from Parkhurst.
 CT do not want to be presunling, but soubt if it is any more presumptive in me to come and try to clarify you than 1t for you to come and try to clarify New York: and I do not know which of us has taken the heavier contract.
 "I attended your service at Madison ouare Garden last evening and I went Tetermined to enjoy it If could. and to "a benefltted by it, and to go away and afute some of the charges that I had eard alleged against you. But it was z m use: your behavior on the platform rushed every throb of sympathy I had riIh VOL I never heard from public neaker such a discharge of effervescent wrath and coarse invective. I went to ear YOU preach the Gospel and you req acbed Dowie, Zion City 'stinkpot.'
 Parkhurst Ashamed of Dowie.
 .T was ashamed of you, and almost named to be in your audience. It was
 long way below the standard even of he circuses that I have attended in the ame garden The only conclusion I ouId derive was that it was so abomina- lie and so far beyond the bounds of the Respectable, that even those in your con- < Ereration who did not know what Chris Sianity is, would have no idea that 1t had nvthing to do with what you were say ne. Of course the ridiculousness of the | Serformance was only enhanced by the nmensity of your pretensions. If you iained to be only an ordinary man there night be some hope for you, even with vhat you call the "rabble' but the rabble
 discriminating and discriminates as eenlv as the keenest between a prophet nd a juggler; between an Elijah and
 niountebank.
 T say this in no spirit of anger. but ither your head Is twisted or your heart Infected, or you have blundered badly in our method. You cannot bully people ito Zionism nor blackguard them into the tngdom of Heaven. I hope you will ake this in the kindly spirit in which
 is offered and that 1t will be blessed you"