The sun., 1903-10-20
CALLS DOWIE BALKAN III.
And 10 ,0O0 Asses Bear Him, Their Heav!
Load. With DociIity. says DR.. Henson.


Load. With Docility, says DR.. Henson.
While Elijah Dowie in Madison Square
Garden yesterday morning was deliver in &
a TRADE against the Rev. DR.. P. s. Her son
pastor of Hanson Place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn. that clergyman, speaking only
q few doors away from the Garden. was
firing verba hot shot into the camp Of the
leader Of Zion. DR.. Fer son was the prin
cipal speaker before the Baptist Ministers
Confer ence In the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church He WAS formerly pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Chicago. and fre-
quently came in contact with Dowie's ee-
tAblishment,
4 speak from personal knowledge DR..
Henson said Yesterday, -for lived for scme
time alongside OF Dowie. When l first
knew him ne was as poor in worldly goods
as a superannuated Baptist minister. He
does not charge dir ectly for his services Of
healing, ae he choose to call them. But
don't think he doesn get tho money Just
the same. For illLstl alton: Knew a B&p-
tist minister living hear ChitaE with a
small church and etill smaller salary. He
had an epileptic son. Other cuI es failing.
he and his wife decided to try the ministl a.
tons Of Dowie.
The mother had an interview with Dowie,
She was asked: How much money can
you raise and bring here with your The
woman In her ext entity scld fir Q COW.
the principal resource Of the family 1t
gave moro milk than the church did. Sic
returned to Cl,itag ar d Dc vie. with some
$50. Dowie asked fer no money; but
when the minister's wife informed him
she intended to stay with her sister in
Chicago, near Zicn, while her son was In
Dowie's care. he il startly put in de-
murrer. It would never do at all. he said
for tf en- n he without tie charmed pre-
cincts Of Zion if cure was to be effected.
80 the mother aLo soli went TO DO" IL s
hotel, where they were given poor board At
a cost l should consider exorbitant at
a summer resort. The $50 was speedily
used up and so was $40 more which by great
sacrifices the minister managed to obtain.
Dowie got 1t all and the mother and son re-
turned home, the son not one whit better.
be was worse, If anything.
AN this know to be absolutely true, and
had time, I could name dozen other just
this sort OF thing the money comes by which
this C sar is grown 80 great-from poor
simple minded people, beaHng heavy bur-
dens, but giving up their money willingly
in the vain hope of cures. Dowie declares
that the money belongs TO the Lord, but it
stands in Dowie's name and l imagine the
good Lord only knows how much Of it He
will ever get. Meantime Dowie lives like
Dives, with no troubling Of conscience for
Lazarus hungry and i'll at the gate
Balaam, Or. Henson said rode sir gle ass
but this incarna ted Balaam If a much hea vier
weight. Ten Thousand asses are neces-
sary to bear him. and they do, bending their
backs beneath the load with docility
Dowie's errand to New York Dr. Henson
described as being like Saul's--in search
Of stray asses,
-1n ali probability be won't 90 back empty
handed said the preacher
After yesterdays preachers meetings
many Of the clergymen tried to enter Msdi-
son Square G lrden TO see Dowie, but we're
disappointed. only the elect being admitted
Two Clergyman did get in. They were Fire
Chaplain c. T. Wnlkley and the Rev G, II.
Bottome. vicar of Grace Chapel. They drove
to the Garden in a battalion chiefs carriage
and one Of the policemen took them in.