The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-11-03
DOWIE'S Big MISSION
Zionist Leaders Plans to Evan
gelize New York.
EVERY HOUSE IS TO BE VISITED

F AVC6o IN LIZ Ill 40140O
Ruler Of Zion City Intends Thas
None Shall Escape-Tracts Will b.
Observation-Disclosures Square Gar
den to he Headquarters OF Invad
1ng Army, which viii lie Trans
ported From Chicago In Ten spe
cial Trains.
It is not q mere dalliance with super
latives to say that "Dr." John Alexan
der Dowie, ruler Of Zion City, neai
Chicago, and head Of the Christian
Catholic Church In Zion, Is the bushes
and most optimistic man in Illinoii
today, says the New York Herald
With all his other manifold tasks hi
1s concerning himself night and day
with the coming mission Of his res
toration host to New York, when tht
ev~angelization of the metropolis will
begin.
Plans for the invasion and the cam
paign to redeem New York from thu
1mps Of darkness have beer formulat
ed to the smallest detail. Ten traini
have been engaged to transport thu
host eastward. These will leave Chi
cago by various trunk lines, and al.
are scheduled to arrive in New York
on Friday, Oct. 16. Dowie's own traiI
will be the last to leave Zion City and
the first to reach New York.
In Dowie's private car, which will bt
magniicently appointed and donated
for the purpose by the Nickel Plate
road, will ride elijah H." Mrs. Dow
te, Gladstone Dowie, their attendants
and the immediate staff Of the genera.
overseer, This train is to reach, New
York at a quarter past Z o'clock on thu
morning of Oct. 16.
A complete telegraph system will bt
installed In this train in charge Of 8
competent operator. BY this means
Dowie will receive hourly reports from
each Of the other nine trains, givins
Its exact location, progress and such
other information as may be deemed
desirable to the leader Of the conquer
ing host. Dowie will be the flyinf
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
re~storationists. There will be no Law.
dsh meals and no putting on Of frills
in the eating of them, but the food is
to be wholesome, and two meals q day
will be served for 25 cents.
Deacon Frank w. Cotton will be
commissary Of the host, and under his
-rcharge will be the entire kitchen staff
: OF Elijah Hospice-Zion City's name fo1
a hotel-Edina Hospice and Zion
Home No. 1. This force will attend
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.
Breakfast will be served at 8 O'Clock
and dinner ut 5 o'clock in the events /.
Every re%storationist must be on hand
at the garden for these two meals. II
his appetite becomes too strong to
wait for the 5 o'clock meal he may
buy a 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.
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 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 Ill
and suffering. The members Of the
host will be expected to return to
Madison Square Garden for their la
bors at 4 p. N. A hot dinner of three
or four courses will be served at 8
p. N. This will give ample time to get
ready, for the evening meeting. There
are to be no afternoon meetings.
There will be street meetings ingvari-
BUS 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