The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-21
is DOWN ON DOWIE
NEW YORK NOT PARTICULARLY
IMPRESSED BY HIM.
DR.. PARKHURST SCORES HIM.
CARRIE NATION GETS PUT OUT OF
THE MEETING.

Was a CROUCH House" in ZiOn-An
Sorts of Disorder Marked the
Night Meeting-Carrie Nation ln-
sisted on Being Heard-ZiOn PO-
lice Hustled Her Out-DOvie the
Worst Parkhurst Ever Saw in the
Garden.
New York. Oct. 2O.-About one
thousand persons, half of whom were
zionists, attended John Alexander
Dowie's early service in Madison
Square Garden to-day, where he
preached on 'Blasphemy. He then
said he was going to meet the editors
of the New York papers at his hotel.
and requested his followers to pray for
him
The 500 members of the Dowie choir
will join the house visitation force, in
creasing it's number to LAO. Deacon
Speicher said the work was greater
than was anticipated.
Dowie's chief aides, his wife and his
son, are about to leave him for a trip
abroad. They will start on Thursday
from this city, taking the steamer Sax
oman Saturday from Boston. They
will go first to England, then to Aus
tralia, where Mrs. Dowie's family still
lives. They do not expect to return
to the United States until next July.
They Put Carrie Out.
Dowie, arrayed in evening clothes,
talked for two hours tonight before a
great throng in Madison Square Gar
den The burden of his talk being de-
nunciation of the clergy and the press
Carrie Nation. who occupied a seat
near the front. asked Elijah" to an
swer some questions. He refused and
ordered her to sit down. Dowie then
praised the spirit in which Mrs. Ma
ton had warred on the saloons, but
said she used wrong methods.
Mrs. Nation again demanded the
privilege of asking questions. At once
the Zion guards surrounded her and
with the help of several policemen
| elected her.
The meeting was one of continuous
disorder.
The Rev. DIR. Charles H. Parkhurst
to-day sent an open letter to Dowie,
as follows:
Parkhurst's Roast of DOwie.
81 do not want to be presuming, but
doubt if it is any more .presumptive in
me to come and try to clarity you
than it is for you to come and try
| to clarity New York; and l do not
know which of us has taken the heav-
| Ter contract. 1 attended your service
| at Madison Square Garden last even
ing, and 1 went determined to enjoy
it if 1 could and to be benefited by
| it, and to go away and refute some
| of the charges that 1 had heard al
| legged against you. But it was of no
use; your behavior on the platform
crushed every throb of sympathy
mad for you.
Il never heard from public speaker
such a discharge of effervescent wrath
| and coarse invective. l went to hear
you preach the Gospel, and you
preached Dowie. Zion City 'stinkpot.'
I was ashamed of you. and almost
ashamed to be in your audience. 1t
was long way below the standard
even VI Tie SAICuoCS LndI IldNS at
tended in the same garden. The only
consolation 1 could derive was that
it was so abominable and so far be-
yond 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.
In a Christian Spirit.
"Of course the Righteousness of the
performance was only enhanced by the
immensely 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 discriminating and can
discriminate as keenly as the keenest
! between a prophet and a juggler be-
tween an Elijah and mountebank.
say this in no spirit of anger, but
either your head is twisted or your
heart infected, or you have Numbered
badly in your method. You cannot
bully people into Zionism, or black
guard them into the kingdom of heav-
en-.
II hope you will take this in the
kindly spirit in which it is offered and
that II will ha hlesGad m xyo,,