Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-21
WILL FIGHT THE DEVIL.
Elder Dowie Proposes to Make Great
Battle in New York.

Chicago Sept. 20.-"To have it out
with thesDevil in New York With this
as it's OBJECT of conquest. John Alex
ander Dowie sasarmy Of. 5000 men and
women VIII iayade New FORK city one
month hence III the greatest evangeli-
cal crusade the world MUsknown.
Moving like an armHin the field,
with it's own comn1iss6fy department
and line of supplieN ,this host will
journey. 1000 miles tasinyade the East
ern metropolis and AsAke the fight to
redeem it's people froip@the world. the
flesh and the devil" -
From Zion City alone, this number
will go, and as many more are to go
from other cities and states. an army
of 5000 of the crusaders Will probably
be encamped in New Yorkgcity, for Is
days, to battle against thesssqevil and
his own" From the platform of Mafi-
son Square Garden, which is to serve
as the rendezvous of the "Host, the
general overseer of the Christian Cath
oic Church in Zion, as thAs of
Dowieism proclaims itself, ASiiI wander
such a naying as NsSk never be-
fore has known sTA 7Sts storm will
come on Oct. 1G, when the Host" will
reach it's battle ground by 10 special
trains.
New York city is downside up" as
serted DR.. Dowic. today, in outlining the
plans of this campaign, in which his eX
traordinary personality will be the direct
ing figure. land in order to he put right
it must bc turned upside down, and We
are the people to do it. | desire to give
the powers of he'll, visible and invisible
straight notice that | will not be afraid
of anything they can do or say or think
or threaten. ! do not care for the support
of the churches or the papers. because.
with few exceptions, they are the devil s
own.
"My workers will bring the people into
Madison Square Garden. and | will shoot
them and tn" Zion soldiers can pick them
mp i will blow the apostatcs To pieces.
Wall street. it's trusts and its million
aires. are to feel the slcdgc hammer ora
tory of the crusaders leader from the
first John -. Rockefeller. the Standard
Oil magnate. In particular IS marked for
vigorous jolts.
You tell me that certain millicnaircs
are worth many hundred millions OF
dollars" asserted Or. Bowie Il say that
they are not. thcytpc miserable. wretch
cd thieves and ouN ht to be in prison. if
they do give money to universities and
churches.
Men who corner the wheat and ruin
people as they do are thieves. The
churches and universities tlattcr them;
hut | call them thieves. That Standard
oil steal is one of the biggest steals in
the country
''rhe worst element of New York's pop
uation is not in the slums of the city,
but in the unScrupulnuS class of mcu
combined IN what is known as the Stock
Exchange. where are such gigantic steals
as the coal, sugar. Standard oil and the
ice trusts. These men are thieves and
wrcckers who are continually holding out
false signals for the unwary to run
against to their utter ruin
This army of 6oO0 men and women. all
pledged to aid in restoring the world to
the conditions which prevailed when
Christ walked the earth. will 80 into eN-
scry street and all over New York and its
: boroughs. They will distribute tons of
Mefature. They will halt at the doors oi
fnsili6nairc brokers offices in Wall street:
they. will knock at the broken entrances
of the battered tencments of the East
side.
~ Peace to thee is the saIutation that
will be carried everywhere. 1t is the only
ESaIutation that Zion City knows.