The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-23
And Listens to the Prophet Declare
"the Great and Terrible Day of the
Lord Is Very Near,
SOME OF HIS HOST" WEARY
ABOUT TWO HUNDRED ANXIOUS TO
RETURN TO ZION CITY.
Early Morning Auditors Warned to BE
Careful of Their Kisses-Dowie
to visit Australia.

NEW YORK, Oct PA great crowd
filled Madison-square Garden tonight at
the Dowie services and a still greater
crowd massed outside the building. Two
hundred and fifty police were gathered
there to preserve order, but tonight their
services were little required.
The subject of Mr.. Dowie's address was
''The Claims of Christ as Universal King"
He said: 1.-THE contamination of the age is
rapidly approaching and my mission is to
tell you that the great and terrible day of
the Lord is very near. God has never given
up the government of His own world.
What q farce to suppose that God, the
creator, the sustainer, has relinquished His
control. To whom? oh. in America, to the
voter? No. There is but one form of gov
eminent acceptable to God. and that is the
ocratic government. Failures of men to
understand the simple laws of God have
been the cause of all human misery"
He recited a number Of lines of verse and
spoke prayer which his followers repeated
after him, few words at time. II de-
sire to say that admission hereafter will be
by ticket until a quarter after T." he said,
after the choir had gone. after that hour
the public will be admitted if there are any
vacant seats. desire to say that there will
be no charge for the tickets. They will be
given freely, our programmes will be given
freely. If you wish to give, you may give
freely" Here the audience arose and be-
gan TO leave and brief benediction was
spoken.
AT the forenoon meeting Dowie an
nounced that he would join his wife in Ade-
laide. Australia, in April. He spoke mod
erately for a while. About a thousand of
the audience left the hail. A group of
added nv
yelling and pounding the side doors of
the garden. Dowie closed the service sud-
denly.
Two hundred of the followers of Dowie in
dictated that they were tired of the work of
reforming New York city, and wanted to re-
| turn TO Zion City when the general over
seer invited all who wanted to give up the
| work and give others a chance to take it UP
| to step forward at the early meeting to-day.
| Dowie at that meeting said ne should enr
| deayor TO convert the Pope. He added that
| he had received many bogus checks since
| coming here, but that others had been good.
There Is no need for followers to rush back
| to Zion,'' said he, because of those suits
| by merchants of Chicago. They are against
| ing his attention to kissing, Dowie said peo-
pie should be careful of their kisses and
use them carefully. ''Why. my son Glad
stone never kissed woman outside the
| family" he said
| William A. Brady, the theatrical man,
who was arrested and charged with disor-
derby conduct in the crowd I'm Madison
square Garden last night, was discharged in
| Police Court to-day. Mr.. Winter was pa
rolled to give him an opportunity to bring
witnesses to testify to the brutality and bad
| judgment of the police.
| In spite of an announcement that Mrs
| DOwie would start to-day for Boston, she
was still here tonight and took part with
Mr.. Dowie in the meeting at Madison-square
| Garden. One OF the Zion officials said that
| she would probably not leave New York un-
| til Friday afternoon.