The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-08-05
IiTIE's new TEMPLE.
.,o FEATURES OF PROPOSED
'0spNACLE FOR zlONISTS.
,..,Ie Can Be Baptized at Once in
basin, which Will Be Filled
with Flowing Water.

with Flowing Water.
,,oxonder Dowie, head of the
gonl ~, o. catholic Church in Zion' near
hsn SUD has planned for his capital on
icasU .a Of Lake Michigan what he
SDo 9I he the largest tabernacle in
IS VI" van devoted exclusively to the
la d., Of God. Tie structure will
Pnhp ny, million dollars and seat
pn rnrsons. 1t will occupy ground
wv ~ 93O by $40 feet and will be
n,oJ in architecture.
1 anras of Healing, the official organ
cav, cav which Mr.. Dowie talks to his
ous d.s and to the world, gives the
t U~ description of the tabernacle
p ga," GREAT feature of the interior
: ~ course, be the auditorium.
. ~ will be in the shape
Sorseshoe and must solve many
Es.nlt nroblems in the arrangement
w.. manv thousand seats, in ventila-
/ and most difficult of all, in acous-
I'll The choir gallery will be made
.oo+ I 600 persons. The speakers
.sorm is to be ell1pdcal in shape,
foot long and eighteen feet wide.
tIho soats in the choir and officers
laroq will be arranged at an angle
'@oiont to show the face of every one
4 +nctly to the audience. Back of
/ cboir and in line with the center
l.ho building a great pipe organ will
hnil+ The organ will be so placed
! the organist will face the au-
' Orium.
lTwo large galleries, in the shape of
horseshoe. will be built in such a
inner that the public finding seats
1 rp will be able to see plainly the
! If every one sitting on the plat
N These galleries will seat about
I In tbe ground floor about 5000, the
Dr and officers galleries about 1900,
Inc total eating capacity Of 49,
persons.
Elevators will be provided at the
IN entrance to lift the people to
se galleries. On the east side of the
lqres will be four stairways, three
\ he south side and three on the
Nh side; one stairway at each one
the four corners of the building
two more in the rear of the choir
Iev. These sixteen stairways con-
\ directly with the outside and as
h will be of inevitable use in empty
the vast auditorium quickly and in
mdeily manner should the occasion
b require.
1.-The dome of the auditorium is to be
structed of steel and covered partly
III glass and partly with sheet metal
at the highest point will be $50
from the ground floor. On the In
EM the dome will measure 1872 feet
iamete. varying in height from 100
on the sides to 135 feet from the
b TO the center.
Electricity will be used in lighting
a tabernacle. Thousands of incan"
cent lamps will be required.
Zone Of the most unusual and at
rve features of the new Shiloh
ernacle will be the baptistry. On
per side of the basement, directly
Ter the choir gallery, robing rooms
the candidates for baptism will be
anged on one side the women, on
other the men. Both rooms will be
BY IS feet in size.
IN leaving the robing room the can
ates 90 directly to the riverlike bap-
~ BY way of separate corridors, one
men and one for women, entirely
Den from public view until the large
1fWays leading into the baptistry
per are reached. Two hundred per-
II may be baptized at one time, and
complete will be the arrangements
1000 can easily be baptized in one
Candidates will enter the baptistry
Il one corridor and pass through an
Y on the other side to reach their
Ing rooms after the ceremony.
lie Oaptistry basin will be twenty
Wide and siXty-five feet long. 1t
be arranged with flowers and
lOOery, while the water will come
waterfall under the speakers
form. The water will fall in full
OF the public, flow through the
'e length Of the baptistry and pass
VI sight under the floor of the au-
/rum.
ue building throughout will be a
luminous and symmetrical combina-
VI great convenience and beauty"