The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
PARKHURST ATTACKS DOWIE
NEIV YoRK DIVINE HAS NO USE
 FOR ZIONIST.

Tells Him Every Throb of sympathy He Had Was Crushed by the Prophets"
 Behavior on ihe PIatform-wont to
 Hear the Gospel and Heard "DoWle, z on city, stink Pot"
 New York. Oct. 2O.-The Rev. pr.
 Charles H. Parkhurst to-day sent the
 following open letter to MT. Dowie:
 Rev. John Alexander Dowie.
 Dear sir: I do not want to be pre- suming, but I doubt if it is any more pre-
 sumptive in me to come and try to clar-
 isy you than it is for you to come and
 try to clarify New York: and do not
 know which of US has taken the heavier
 contract. attended your service at
 Madison Square Garden last evening, and I went determined to enjoy it if I
 could. and to be benefited by it, and to
 go away and refute some of the charges that I had heard alleged against you.
 But it was Of no use: your behavior on the platform crushed every throb of sympathy had with you. never heard from public speaker such a dis charge of effervescent wrath and coarse. invective. I went to hear you preach the gospel and you preached Dowie. Zion City, stink pot" was ashamed of you almost ashmed to be in your au- dience. It was a long way below the standard even of the circuses that I have attended in the same garden. The only consolation I could derive was that it was so abominable and so far beyond the bounds of the respectable that even those in your congregation who did not know what Christianity is would have no idea that it had anything to do with what you were saying. Of course the ridiculousness of the performance was only enhanced by the immensity of your pretensions. If you claimed to be only
 an ordinary man there might be some
 hope for you, even with what you call the "rabble,', but the rabble is discrim- mating and can discriminate as keenly as the keenest between the prophet and
 juggler; between an Elijah and a mountebank.
 say this in no spirit of anger, but either your head is twisted or your
 heart infected, or you have blundered badly in your method You cannot bull lly people into Zionists nor blackguard them into the Kingdom of heaven. I hope you will take this in the kindly spirit in which it is offered,
 Yours sincerely,
 c. H, Parkhurst. | Dcwie, arrayed in evening clothes, talked for two hours tonight before a great throng in Madison Square Gar den. the burden of his talk being a de- nunciation of the clergy and the press. When he began the garden was crowd ed and the police say 5000 persons could not get in and were turned away. In half an hour however, the crowd began to surge out and then the police refused to admit any late-eomers, say ing they feared a riot.
 F. It was with some difficulty that any semblance of order was kept The 1 speakers outpouring of invective was repeatedly interrupted with misses and
 shouts of disapproval. At one point. l Dowie ordered the police to arrest two men in different parts of the building who had interrupted him. Carrie Ma l ton, who occupied seat near the
 front, asked Elijah' to answer some
 questions. He refused and ordered her to sit down. Dowie then praised the I spirit in which Mrs. Nation had warred I on the saloon, but said she used wrong methods.
 Mrs. Nation again demanded the
 privilege of asking questions. At once I the guards surrounded her and with the lhelp of several policemen hustled her
 out. At this several hundred people at l the back of the garden made a rush to get out The entrance was blocked in a moment, and Dowie. shouting that I the way had been blocked by the crowd outside. brought there for the purpose f of creating a disturbance ordered the
 Zionists to keep their places. He then I requested the audience to be seated and ! after having the side exits opened he I directed the audience to rise in sections I and go out at the sides. The meeting I was one Of continuous disorder.
 Dowie had announced that he would
 reply to an attack by Rev. Dr. James M Buckley published in a magazine l last year, but he only referred to this subject casually. He attacked Rev. Dr. l P. S. Henson, Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, J. F. \ Morgan and others, and announced that hereafter he intended to keep the news paper represent tatives out of his meet I ings.
 Dowie's chief aids, his wife and his
 son are about to leave him for a trtr . abroad. They will start on Thursday from this city. taking the steamer
 Saxonian Saturday from Boston. They
 will go first to England and then te
 Australia, where Mrs. Dowies family still lives. They do not expect to re I turn to the United States until next
 July. k