The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
His Utterances Kissed and Displeas-
ure Further shown by People
Leaving the Garden.
MRS. CARRIE NATION ELECTED
NOT GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF
ASKING QUESTIONS.
Noted Preachers AssaiIed by "Elijah"
open Letter from DIR. Park
hurst to DOwie.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Dr. John Alexan-
der Dowie, arrayed in evening clothes,
talked for two hours tonight before a
great throng in Madison-square Garden,
the burden Of his talk being denunciation
of the clergy and the press. When he be-
gan the huge garden was crowded, and the
police say 6,000 persons who could not gain
entrance were turned away. In half an
hour, however the crowd began to surge
out, and then the police refused to admit
any newcomers, saying they feared riot.
1t was with some difficulty that any sem
blance of order WAS kept. The speaker
was repeatedly interrupted with Kisses and
shouts of disapproval. At one point Dowie
ordered the police to arrest two men in
different parts of the building who had in
terrupted him.
Carrie Nation, who occupied seat near
the front, asked Elijah to answer some
questions. He refused, and ordered her to
sit down.
Dowie then praised the spirit in which
Mrs. Nation had warred on the saloon, but
said she used strong methods Mrs. Ma
ton again demanded the privilege of ask
ing questions. At once the Zion guards
surrounded her. and. with the help of sew
eral policemen, elected her.
At this several hundred persons at the
back of the garden made rush to get out.
The entrance was blocked in a moment.
and Dowie. shouting that the way had
been blocked by the crowd outside, brought
there for the purpose of creating a disturb
ance, ordered the Zionists to keep their
places. He then requested the audience TO
be seated, and, after having the side exits
opened, he directed the audience to rise in
sections
meeting was one of continuous disorder.
Dowie had announced that he would re
ply to an attack by the Rev. DR.. James NJ
Buckley. published in a magazine last year.
But he only referred to this subject casual
ly. He attacked the Rev. DIR. +. 5. Henson
the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, j. p. Morgan and
others, and announced that hereafter he
intended to keep the newspaper reporters
out of his meetings.
The Rev. DIR. Charles III. Parkhurst to-
day sent the following open letter to Mr.
Dowie: Il do not want to be presuming,
but doubt IL II is any more presumptive in
IN fdT to to and try to clarity S tha
York; and L don't know which of us has
taken the heavier contract. L attended
your service at Madison-square Garden last
evening, and L went determined to enjoy
ii IL l could and to be benefited by it and
to go away and refute some of the charges
that had heard alleged against you. But
1t was of no use; your behavior on the plat
form crushed every throb of sympathy /
had with you. never heard from public
speaker Sucn a ulScQarSo OF eIerNeScent
wrath and coarse invective. l went to hear
you preach gospel and you preached Dowie
Zion City, stink pot.
II was ashamed of you and almost
ashamed to be in your audience. 1t was a
long way below the standard of even the
circuses that L have attended in the same
garden. The only consolation L could de-
rive was that IL was abominable and
so far beyond 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. OF course the
righteousness of the performance was only
enhanced by the immenSity of your pre-
tensions. If you claimed to be only an or
dinary 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 be-
tween prophet and juggler, between an
Elijah and a mountebank. L say this in
no spirit of anger, but either your head is
twisted your heart infected, or you
have blundered badly in your method You
cannot bully people into Zionism nor black
guard them into the Kingdom of Heaven
/ hope You will take this in the kindly spirit
in which it is offered, and that it will be
blessed 20 YOU"
Dowie's chief aids. his wife and his son.
are about to leave him for a trip abroad
They will start out Thursday from this
city, taking the steamer Saxonian SATURDAY.
from Boston. They will go first to Eng
land then to Australia, where Mrs. Dowie's
family still lives. They do not expect to
return to the United States until next July