The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-24

healing. Dowle either knows better
aud is a hypocrite or be doesn't know
better and thinks with a brogue.
There is nothing to be said against
Dowie's doetrinal orthodoxy provided
he believes what he says he believes
and presumably does. He is not
stiff Calyinist, and perhaps this is TO
his advantage, but he squares with
the Presbyterian faith In the matter
of the infallibility of the Scriptures
and their suiiiciency as rule Of faith
and practice. lie claims that no one
ought to be admitted to church fellow
ship who has not repented of his sins
and trusted in Christ for salvation.
And he furthermore insists that in or
der to be admitted into the visible
church ore should in a measure have
the virtue Of the Holy Spirit. All 9th
er matters, he declares, are to be rele-
gated to the category Of the nonessen-
tial. Now. this is a fine creed. It Is
fine ia what # includes and fine in
what It does not include.
Assuming for convenience sake the
sincerity Of the man, 1t is to his mis-
fortune that he links himself in any
way with Elijah. In the first place,
Elijah, even the original Elijah, Is.
not what we want, and still less do we
want counterfeit copy Of him. Eli
jah IS a back number. John the Bap-
list came in the power Of Elijah, aud
the Lord himself said that the poorest
servant in the kingdom Of heaven was
ahead Of John the Baptist The re-
Mobilization Of antiquities Is not the
thing required.
In the second place, Dowie Is SO evi-
IDENTIFY tremendously human that the
masses are not going TO take kindly to
his claim az being whit above hui
man. Granted that he has chastened
himself into believing that he Is the
| fourth member Of the Trinity, the peo-
PIE at large are going to interpret that
as being 50 much sanctimoniousness,
not to say sacrilegious buneombe.
! He will not capture the people. He
is no more ike Moody or spurgeon or
Wesley than a kettledrum is like a
canary. The people who throng. 50
4 long as they continue to throng. Madl-
son Square Garden viii be Of two
classes The larger class viii be Of
those who attend IN the same way and
| III the same spirit that they would
come into the Garden If Dowie We're
of and a circus were on. Dowie and
his troupe are to them nothing more
or less than cage Of imported Curl
osities.
The other class is made up Of those
who are suffering from a twist in theii
/ psychology and who want Christian
ity with d corresponding twist TO match
ii, and the people who trail after Dow
| ie are OF the same general breed.
Now, / have tried to give our visit
/ ing evangelist or prophet or whatevel
he may style himself the benefit OF ev
cry doubt. l have tried to cover hi,
personality and character fairly ant
honestly. / have sought to give hin
credit for everything that can possibl,
be credited to him; but, having done al
that I feel entirely free to 90 on AMI
say that the harangue that he gave u
last evening was ali in all simply ant
unqualiiedly ahominable and disgust
ing
| confess myself as utterly disap
pointed. There were quantities Of fine
prosperous people in the number Of hi
followers, and there was larg
amount OF intelligence fiji the audience
but language SO ineonsiderate, s.
scourging. SO disconrteous. SO scoldini
and SO beneath the dignity Of the occa
sion and Of civilized people | nere
heard from any platform ! cannot b
encouraged by 1t. because ii was s.
ahominahle as to be really more anus
ing than irritating. The eplthets whic
he applied 70 his congregation or 4
certain elements OF It at any rate wa
bound to be offensive to all ears Of pc
Z lite and Christian people.
I Mr.. Dowie has undertaken a coutrac
that is too large for him, He seems no
to understand human nature and TN
: AGNES that New York people are goinl
$ to be buldozed into respect for hin
? and for zionism He has attemptet
T. more than he is equal to. lie Is to-
? wilifully conscious, he is toe coaFs
! grained he is too ignorant Of anytHn
/. like sagaeity and everyday discretion
1 TO be able to draw his Madison sqnar
{ Garden congregation into his love 2
$ even into bis confidence.
! The service IN certain portions Of
partook very largely Of the nature q
! circus lie did not damn his audiehe
Q exactly. but he evidently though
+ damn. and one Is about as profane q
2 the other He was erratic ana ma
= and luny / felt ashamed Of him am
q OF his cause and almost ashamed 2
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