The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-21

Mrs. Nation Invades Dowie Meeting
in New York, but Is
Squelched.
Elijah II. Would Neither Answer
Questions Nor Permit Her
y Y to Speak.

New York, Oct. 21.-Carrie Nation
tried.to butt in on Elijah at Madison
Square last night and she was put out
, by the police. ~. ~,.-. = 81
She made two attempts to divide the
audience with Dowie. The first time
Dowie addressed her with loving and
kindly. words and persuaded her to
obey. some of his Zion guards and sit
down. 49,. ~
The second time she persisted with
such vehemence in getting into the
game that she caused 81 small riot.
Dowie, with that generalship and exec
utive ability of which he is an &C
knowledged master, put down the
racket ana sent the audience away
quietly after Carrie had been elected.
Elijah had been trying to furnish
an answer to DR.. James M. 'Buckley's
magazine article about him, when Mrs.
Nation interrupted him. "a
Doctor" she shouted, II want to
ask you question"
Elijah had. never seen. this distin-
guished competitor before and with
his usual pronptness yelled back to-
her:
sit down. T won't answer any
questions. Guards. make that woman
keep quiet"
The Irresistible Carrie bobbed up
and smiled in her own glad, good-na-.
tured way.
But doctor" she cried in voice to
be heard all over the room, Just one
question"
A number of EHjah's overseers
went up to him as he ran up and down
the platform shouting to the guards.
One of them must have told him who
the interrupter was. ~..
II am informed,' he shouted, that
1t is Carrie Nation.
Carrie, who had been compelled to
sit down, bobbed up again and cour-
tested.
Yes, DOCTOR" she cried, "and I
want"
my dear Mrs. Nation said Dowie
in his gentlest tones, my dear sister,
sit down. Please sit down. 1 love
you, my sister, and admire your cour-
age, tho we may not approve Of your
methods. Nevertheless, I admire your
spirit. We are glad to have you with
us-and will you please sit down. and
not allow yourself to be used by those
who have organized to break up these
meetings?'
Carrie blushed and sat down. :
Elijah went on with his remarks on
DR.. Buckley and the rest of the uni
verse. He called DR.. Buckley a mi
cromaniac, to say nothing of denom-
mating him a liar and no gentleman.
But he had no sooner finished his. ad-
dress than Carrie was up and scream
ing again. This time there was a lot
her first shrill request: ''.
Now, dear DOCTOR, can't please
TALK" - = - -.
Mrs. Nation a moment later found
herself being escorted out of the build
ing. : '.-.5 % .. " e. : II =
Dr.. Henson There. 49,. -.y 4
Rev. P. S. Henson, pastor of; the
Henson Place Baptist church Of
Brooklyn. was an interested auditor
at the garden last night, when Dowie
delivered a TRADE INCLUDING DR.. He'll.
son in it. DR.. Henson wrote his views
of Dowie for a morning paper, hand.
ling the Zion prophet without gloves
In part he said: - = @,.''r
#'The first thing thrust into my hand as
ISeDtered the room was a So called sermon
by DOwie. which dealt with me directly
under the title of The Dirty Boy" And
If am not dirty. after all the filth that
he has flung at me. must have some sort
of kinship with the three young Hebrews
that passed thru Northumberland fur
mace without the smell Of fire upon their
garments. ~
Dowie is not a preacher in any pretense
of the word. He deals in disconnected
and often disgusting. datribes, in which
profanity and piety, scurrilty and philan-
thropy are mingled The man is the rar-
est combination Of grotesque incongruities
that ever appeared on the platform. = -. =. !;
There is, no mistaking the fact that
l)OWle, NOTWITHSTANDING MS rld1CulOuS and
blaspremous pretensions, in a very unique
and powerful personality and is a mighty
master of men of whom he demands and
from whom he receives the most 1abject
9nd unreasoning obedience. Endowed
with extraordinary natural gifts and
claiming the possession of supernatural
powers, with a transcendent gift for or
sanitation. never losing sight of personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and. yet exploiting such
lofty moral sentiments and processing such
profound regard for the highest ideals of
a religious, life, he inspires his followers
with fanaticism. that prompts them to
empty all their treasures at the feet of the
self-proclaimed prophet.
Dowie is man built on. very much the
same pattern as Brigham Young and
working along very much the same lines
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