The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-17
PEACE Be With YOU, BROTHER !
ELIJAH THE RESTORER rs HERE,
AND THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS.

Sorting the Messengers Men
| Bearded. Gannt and Melancholy. the
women COrsetiess and Wan-Dowfe's
Advent At the Garden-He's the Boss
OF Zion. and No Mistake About u.
An understood man, with snow white.
patriarchal beard, brilliant blue eyes, rosy
cheeks and comfortably protruding abdo-
men, entered the Grand Central Station
yesterday on the private car OF the presi-
dent of the Nickel Plate Railroad. He
was John Alexander Dowie, general over
seer Of the Christian Catholic Church Of
| Zion.
Sometime he calls himself Elijah the
Restorer, in contradistinct ion to the Elijah
on whose account the bears ate up the bad
boys-by Dowie called Elijah the De-
stroyer."
With this little man Dowie there came
to New York some thirty-one hundred other
persons from Zion City. Ill. They were, &C.
cording to Dowie's Official documents, "a
large number of oyerseers. elders, evan
gelsts deacons and deaconesses OF the
| Christian Catholic Church in Zion, and
about three thousand messengers OF Zion
Restoration Host, including Zion white
ROBBED choir. of about five hundred voices,
Zion City band, Zion Guard, Zion Bugle
and Drum, Corps and other Zion organiza-
| tions."
They came on eight separate railroad
trains on eight different railroads. They
cam, to save New York from its unregen-
crate state Of sin. They came with intent
to visit every house in New York at least
twice before they return to Zion City, which
is near Clclgo, n week from next Monday.
GREAT ORGANIZER.
There are lots of people in this big town
who will laugh at Dowie and his queer
crowd of self-sanctifed word-savers as
| long as they stay with us. But there is
many business man in New York. never
| theess, who would be glad of one-tenth
the genius for organization and executive
management which seems TO radiate from
Elijah the Restorer.
He is at the centre of the whole system.
| He is the deviser and the promoter. When
! the machine snarls he is the one who
straightens out the threads,
| When Dowie arrived at the Grand Central
| Station yesterday morning at half past o
| o'clock almost all the rest of the Host were
! already on Manhattan Island. Some OF
| them had come in al early as half past Q.
| They came over the ferries from Communi-
paw, from the Pennsylvania station in
Jersey City. from Pavonia, from Hoboken,
| from Weehawken, and into the Grand
| Central
Every single messenger had a little slip
| telling him just what street cars TO take to
get to Madison Square Garden, just how
! much fare TO pay and just exact y to whom
to report on arriving at the Garden.
WHAT DOwIEITEs LOOK LIKE.
By the time New York had reached III
usual etaIe of husy eyervday lie the street
all over town were pretty well impregnatet
with evidences of the presence OF Dowie
host.
The men have for the most part the rapt
hollow eyes of religious enthusiasts the worlc
over Most of them have whiskers anC
most of the whiskers are rather scraggly
A great many wore shiny silk hats of ancient
styles and high water brooches.
As to the women of the Zion Host, the
opinions of the critics varied.
They don't look to me as though they
got enough to eat" said one.
"They seem to wear good clothes said
| another. but the clothes don't MT
This last criticism was illuminated by
the information tnat Dowie does not allow
the women of Zion to wear corsets.
Aside from certain sallOwness and sad
ness that may well be accounted for by the
WEAKNESS of long journey, they were on
| the whole rather pretty. They seemed
! every bit as earnest as the men.
The official description OF Zion IN the
Host q official programme says;
A restoration city. an inevitable product
| of the restoration work of Elijah the Restorer
| in these days which are the beginning OF the
| Times of the restoration Of all things" fore
| told in Acts ?: 2l-24, In it are prohibited
| intox icating liquors. tobacco poisonous drugs.
| swine's hesh theatres, gambling dens, places
| of i'll fame and all other uncleanness.
NOT z1oN-LIKE.
II was quite apparent from the bearing
and action of all of Dowie's Host as they
passed through the streets yesterday that
| they recognized the undoubted fact that
New York is not like Zion.
pleasant young woman with soft black
hair walked up to a fat man at the Battery
| who was looking at trainload OF arriving
Restorers and said to him with winning
seriousness:
"Will you let me have your cigarette?"
He blanched a little, took the cigarette
from his lips and studied it and then handed
il over to her with foolish grin.
Perhaps he expected her to use it to light
another cigarette. He looked as though
he had some such notion. But she flung
II into the gutter.
peace be with you, brother!" she said.
smiling sweetly as she swung herself aboard
q tTOlleV car al tDe battery lOOp Will tTuC
Chicago nonchaance
well. III be damned" murmured the fat
man, looking first at the smoking cigarette
and then at the disappearing car.
Undoubtedly you will be damned, said
Dowieite with faded brown whiskers and
silk hat, looking at him mournfully.
unless you reform your profane speech.
Peace he with you, brother"
The fat man fed to one OF the Battery
saloons. The Restorers went on their way.
They cared not so long as they passed the
warning as to evil living to every New
York5f they caught with the goods on him.
DoHIE's COPS.
The messengers of Zion, hungry, tired
and dirty, began piing into Madison Square
Garden about . clock In the morning.
They wanted breakfast.
A small force of Zion Guards waa al
ready posted about the doors. Zion has
its own police force. The Zion Guards
are force Of auxiliary keepers OF order
They wear dark bhle uniforms With brass
buttons, patent leather belts with Dowies
Helpful Thoughts" in holsters, they have
caps with lions flying dove In gold pinned
juat above the visor
These men refused to lot any ore INTO
the Garden who had not his Zion hen-
thcationvcard. Each card had tho name.
the observation-disclosures and photograph Of
the owner on il 0Not few Of the host
had forgotten their cards. They didn't
get in.
They wandered I'm and down Madison