Evening journal., 1903-09-29
DOWIE'S BIG MISSION.
Zionist Leaders Plans to Evan
gelize New York.
EVERY HOUSE is TO BE VISITED.


None Shall Escape-Trncts WIN De
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Square Car
den to De Headquarters of Invad-
ing Army, which VIII BE Trans
cinI Trains.
1t is not mere dalllance with super
latives to say that "Dr." 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
cago 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 viii be
magnificently appointed and donated
for the purpose by the Nickel Plate
road, viii ride elijah H." Mrs. Dow
ie. 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. 10.
A complete telegraph system win be
installed in this train in charge of q
competent operator. BY this means
Dowie viii receive hourly reports from
each of the other nine trains. giving
its exact location. progress and such
other information as ray be deemed
desirable to the leader OF the conquer
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
ish meals and no putting on of frills
in the eating Of them, but the food is
to be wholesome, and two meals a day
Will be served for % cents.
Deacon Frank w. Cotton will be
T. commissary Of the host. and under his
7 charge will be the entire kitchen stan
Of Elijah Hospice-Zion City's name for
a hotel-Edlna Hospice and Zion
Home No. 1. This force viii attend
to the cooking of the meals, the cooks
o to work in relays, 50 that the work de
volving upon each may be as light as
possible. Madison Square Garden viii
l. present the spectacle of from 5000 t.
y 5000 Zionists eating at once. Dishe
y are to be taken along. These are al
. ready provided for in Zion City
e Breakfast will be served at o'clocl
and dinner at o'clock in the evening
B. Every restorationist must be on han'
at the garden for these two meals. l
his appetite becomes too strong t
d wait for the 3 o'clock meal he ma.
At buy lunch at an eating house in tn
II territory to which he will be assigned
a for missionary work The Zion ban'
20 Of forty pieces will wake the echoes
to and the adult choir of $50 members ant
r the junior choir Of 200 voices vii
IS unite in the battle hymns Of tn
o church.
H.. hn rrrfl
% take part in the early morning meet
10 ings Of praise and prayer, at whicl
10 DR.. Dowie viii deliver addresses on tn
n eleven commandments, taking one eacl
N morning, and four other subjects
10 which he will select for the fifteei
n. days. AS soon as possible after break
W fast the companies will form thei
n seventies and leave Madison Squar
. Garden for the districts allotted t
them for the days work. At 10 o'cloc
every morning the general oversee
will hold a meeting in Madison Squar
Garden, at which the host will not b
present. At these meetings Dowi
e hopes to give divine healing teachin
lg and to spend much time with the /
an and suffering. The members Of th
n host will be expected to return
m Madison Square Garden for their !;
he bors at 4 D. IN. A hot dinner of thre
CT, or four courses viii be served at
ay p. m. This viii give ample time to 81
er- ready for the evening meeting. TheI
N are to be no afternoon meetings.
IT. There will be street meetings in var
ms GUS parts Of the city. These meeting
op win not be so demonstrative as tho'
in held by the Salvation Army, but WI
cd be similar to them in that there WI
ed be speaking, praying and singing
xi- hymns.
Die The bulk of the work mapped ou
however, will consist Of visitation
members Of the host going to busine
and private houses and leaving trac
OF issued under the direction of ''Dr
ng Dowie. These tracts relate to Il
in tenets of the church, to the principl
let of divine healing promulgated by Il
he head of the church and the cures 50
ity to have been effected thereby. 1t
m contemplated that not house in I
ces New York shall escape, and Dowie b
ar figured out that every one can
get reached, with plenty Of time TO spa
ing for the biz meetings. He calculat
not that each visiting delegate can ri
iall the bells and leave documents at
ins houses each day.
ces Tho purpose Of the New York inY
the sion is to establish the eastern bran