The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-19
GARDEN WAS PACKED.
Great Crowds Turn Out to Hear
Dowie in New York.

of a prophet One morning paper an
nOunced the arrival of the Zion host in
circus poster style. as follows:
"Dowie's combined mammoth shows,
most stupendous, gigantic, colossal
spectacle on earth, three weeks only.
one general overseer of the men. one
overseers, 100 elders, 100 evangelists,
1000 deacons and deaconeSSes. 1000
members of the host of Zion. the Zion
guard. the most dazzling and daShing
military organization in the world. an
enormous aggregation of trained per-
formers. requiring the entire tranSDor-
tation facilities of seven great trunk
lines, an entire poDulace on wheels, for
three weeks only
Five thousand persons were turned
away from Madison Square Garden
Sunday afternoon after all the seats in
the building had been filled with
great crowd. curious to see Holm Alex
andeF DOWie on his first appearance be-
fore a New York audience. Fully a.
600 persons were in the garden at 2:30
o'clock when the services began with
the professional hymn in which the
Zion white ribbon choir, to the num-
Der of about 600 and the capped and
gowned ordained officers of the Chris
tian Catholic church in Zion took part.
The procession assembled to the plat
FORM where the choir took position he
hind the pulpit and the officers occu-
pied the places at the sides. When
those on the platform had taken their
places, DR.. Dowie assembled the plat
FORM ACCOMPANIED by Overseers Daniel
Bryant, ]. q. Excel A. j. Gladstone
Dowie, J. G.. Speigner, G. l.. Mason and
w Hammond Piper, who took their
places behind the pulpit in the order in
which thew had assembled the rostrum.
DR.. Dowie wore the usual white robe
with a black robe above it.
The service of prayer opened with the
invocation by DR.. Dowie, followed by
the singing of a hymn, during which
crowd to into I,a
garden.
This was followed by the recital OF
the creed and commandments and the
reading of Scripture. during which hum
dredS of persons started to leave tbs
hall, causing much confusion. The exo-
duS continued in spite of repeated or
ders to close. the doors, until nearly IA
third Of the audience had departed,
many of the vacant seats being filled
with the waiting crowd outside. After
order had been somewhat restored, DR..
Dowie said:
IF this is New York. and this is a
typical New York congregation, I am N
the face of a new experience. I think
that some of the people who came in
must have thought that this was
Buffalo Bill show I wonder if the con-
gregations of the churches here enter
and leave as they please. 1 reckon we
have learned something and will be pre-
pared hereafter. There will be no more
going out of the front door. If any have
l6Uldlu6Q OUTSIDE let In61n IN. 1t seems
a shame they should not have the seaA;
the Buffalo Bill persons have left
No one entered
We'll let US keep the quiet audience
we have" said the preacher
DR.. Dowie took his text from the
third chapter of the book of Revelations,
the twentieth verse
Behold L stand at the door and
knock. If any man hear my voice and
open the door, / will come into him and
will sup with him and he with me-
Then walking back and forth in front
of his pulpit, he began:
Eyes have they, yet they see not.
Ears have they, yet they hear not
4 shall ask the gentlemen OF the
press to behave and to not talk I am
not one who is concerned much about
the audience he speaks to, but 1 am go
ing to have a quiet audience now, you'd
better believe. Sit down, madame, you
just sit down"
DR.. Dowie strobe across the platforms
and pointed his finger. shaking it, at
the woman to whom he shouted.
Nov, the people who have gone
away" he continued. They could not
have gone because of what I said, for 1
was reading what God said. Ears they
had. but they heard not. 1 am going to
make them hear"
With his arms above his head, in a
shrin voice that reached the farthest
parts of the garden, he cried:
'Oh, it is good to know that God has
not ceased to knock at the human
heart; to knock at the doors of homes;
to knock at the doors of workshops; at
the doors of places of business, the
doors of business institutions; at the
doors of the municipality; at the doors
of halls of legislation; at the doors of
princes and of presidents and of kings.
laundering at the door of the world is
the king of kings. And in his name.
stand before today and say open that
door and let the spirit of God in -
A murmur of amen went up from
his followers.
After a reference to Christ and the
woman Of Samaria, he continued:
"They began to ask who Christ was.
Is not He the son of old Joe. the car
penter we all know? This is Jesus, the
son of old Joe. And they talked with
each other And they told him to get
if you say to me in New York, get out
of here I won't get. They said to me
in Chicago they would drive me out
of the city, but I told them the only
would be by killing me and
driving me out in hearse.
Bless your life. I am the only minister
AZ miles from Chicago that newspapers
hunger to get even a word FROM" he
went on with sudden laugh. cat the
last mayoralty election both candidates
came to get me to back them up in the
fight And perhaps / might be a help
to one side or the other in New York
yet have not yet made up my mind
about it. I have a message for the
press tomorrow and I'll give it lick
they'll never forget"
Continuing, he said:
Some will go away and say, I don't
like Dowie. He puts his wife on the
platform with him. Why should not
put my wife on the platform She can
talk better then 1 can, particularly when
we are alone together. Oh, what fools
the churches have been! They have let
the devil get the women. They have let
them go upon the stage and dance and
sing. Isn't it time we had the women
singing for Jesus?"
Yes responded his followers in one
voice.
In conclusion. DR.. Dowie delivered a
prayer that began with a cry:
Help! Helpi Help! That the doors be
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