The sun., 1903-10-20
PROPHET CALLSON THE MAYOR
"PEACE TO THEE" SAYS ELIJAH
--"THANk YOU" REPLIESMR.L LOW
Visit Sandwdched In With . Trip to Wall
street. Between Rantins and Billings
gate Directed at Every body and Every
thinE-liI,Sc at One Meeting When
He Proclaims Himself RestOrer.


He Proclaims Himself RestOrer.
John Alexander Dowie. Elijah tho Res
torer, Ger eral Overseer OF the Rest ora' lon
Host of Zion City and Apost le 10 New York
| SHE Modern Sodom. the phrase OF Do~ie-
ism .-- visit ed the City Hall. yes' erday, and
| had speech with Mayor Low. He also made
| three addresses in Madison Square Garden.
| in the course of which he showed himself
a very bad loser Never a beaten poll
tician put forth more excuses and more
| miscellaneous and shallow accu usations.
Dowie also paid visit to the purEeus
Of inioutous Wall Street. which he de-
nounced on Sunday as the abode Of all
kinds of gamblers, but which he recognizes
as the place where folks make almost as
much money as he does. though without
| divine aid
He went to Wall Street with Deacon
Barnard, his Zion City Bank manager. and
Overseer kindle. his lace salesman in this
city, TO attend 10 ZONE secular matters.
On the way he stopped at the City Hall in
pursuance q an engagement he had
made earlier Mrs. Dowie was with them.
They were escorted into the Mayors pree-
ence at once.
Dowie looked around and saw that tho
RI on was full Of report ers, his particular
al o mir al iors, next to swire and the flesh
Of swine. He tried to shoe them away.
They were there by permission, and
wouldn't shoe. So the Prophet whispered
his part of the conversat ion. which was
as follows.
.Dowie-Perhnps you are aware that 1000
Of my people have come to New York city.
They want me to tell you that they have
admire ai greatly the work You have done Tor the
city. For myself and those with me. l want
to say how pleased We are TO have the privi-
The Mayor;.-It is great pleasure ia, me to
have yourself and your wife. son and your
friends call here, and express. as you have
Mayor that aFs Ts'v veS ~ shs 4 G Tor M sho
nd pots sna ocers hnss ay' 5"
very quietly, And as we did not know what
our experience would be, We hive every
ances We have had could not have been
avoided by your police officers,
The Mayor suppose not
the salutation Of Zion'--Peace to thee!"
The Mayor-Thank you.
Dowie went away. The Mayor was in
formed later that he should have replied,
Peace to thee be multiplied" to the
Prophet. The Mayor said he liked hank
you!' better,
DISORDER AT HIS NIGHT MEETING.
Dowie's meetirg last night was his rough
est exI erierce. 70 far. in the modern Sodom.
For the frs, hour he was quite convemici al.
The choir ard the rest OF the host went
throlg gh the ordinary services. Then the
Prophet began 10 ret d fran Malachi and
comment as he read. He branched OF
from Malachi TO stink pots arc the like,
arc his audience began 10 go out. He
said that mary mil ister were stink pots
ard was hisscd.
Later he alta, ked Free Masonry. and a
number OF persons in the galleries took
the police. Finally, he went into details
al o why he considers himself ijah the
Res oorer. At the end he called on all those
who believed that he was llijah to rise.
Hundreds rose, but hundreds Of others
began to hoot and yell. liiah tried 10
shout them into silence, but they would
MT be silenced. He started a hymn and
then pronounced dismissal prayer rapidly.
As he went out there was rush Of part
OF the audience for him. Probably it was
caused by nothing more than desire to
see the Prophet at close range. But tho
police made quic counter rush and stalled
it Of.
Dowie repeated his abuse Of reporters
all through the evening. His best epithet
for them was dirty Birds He announced
that he had asked all the editors in New
York to meet him to-day. and that he would
then advise the dismissal OF four-ffths
of their reporters. For the first time in
their experiences with him the reporters
laughed out loud.
powlR IN THE sHRIEKlNo STAGE.
Dowie's discourse at the noon meeting
was q long suct ession OF seedlings of the
public and even OF the host for making
noise The slightest movement OF any
person in any part Of the hail. no matter
how nois eess, was the text for an outburst
One was addressed 10 an Irish scrubwoman,
who Was climbing the stairs:
who ia that woman?" Dowie shouted
at the guards. Make her sit down" The
old woman kere CO her noiseless way.
Stop You women, there, sit down.
he escrea med at her.
he W, man turned. shed an irradiatingly
OCpenlCnL lIlsn eIuIie on Hill anu tuo
host and went her way.
i will be obeyed," hoWled the Prophet
Twill. rllshow her. Twill not be dehed.'
lhe scrub lady kept on her way until
she was out Of sight.
He abused the Zion Guards. He told
them not to leave people sitting way back
where Mrs. Dowie must crack her voice
TO be heard by them. They began bring
ing people forward He shook his fist
at them and asked how many times he
had told them to keep people In the back
seats when he was trying 70 get the place
quiet enough for a reaning OF the Bible.
After q while, when he was weary and ue
Garden WAS almost as quiet as it had been
when he started, he turned TO the patient
faced Mrs Dowie'
Now, Jennie he said, read from tho
Word"
Mrs Dowie has a high, clear, sweet
voice. Nobody had any difficulty III hearing
her and LoUouy tried TO get out while she
was reading But Dowie sat behind her
and did an active pantomme OF keeping
the audience quiet with gestures.
The Prophet broke away from criticism
of the host to say some more things about
the public which comes to his meetings
While he was deEouncing things generally.
a guard came along and asked a white
haired old gentleman to get out OF a seat
Oh bench reserved for the guards who
are detailed to rub In the G. O.'s gibes
at the newspaper men. The old man got
up and hustled out OF the place in great
indignation. Dc vie waited until the visitor
was well alta ri Ad ana than from the MIA n orm