The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-19
SUN REPORTER TELLS OF
 DOWIE AND HIS ZIONITES

the information that Dowie does not al- low the women of Zion to wear corsets. Aside from a certain sal1owness and sadness that may well be accounted for by the weariness of a 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 Hosts'S official programme says:
 A restoration city; an inevitable product of the restoration work of Elijah the re- storer in these days which are the be- ginning of the "Tlmes of the restora- ton of all things" fortold in Acts 3, 21-24. In it are prohibited intoxicating liquors, tobacco, poisonous drugs, swine's flesh, theatres, gambling dens. places of ill fame and other uneleanness.
 It 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.
 A pleasant young woman with soft black hair walked up to a fat man at the Bat tery who was looking at a. trainIoad of arriving Restorers and said to him with winning seriousness:
 "Wil you let me have your cigarette?' He blanched little, took the cigarette from his lips and studied 1t and then handed it 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 it into the gutter.
 Peace be with you. brothert' she said. smiling sweetly. as she swung herself aboard trolley car at the Battery loop with true Chicago nonchalance.
 Well, I'll be damned." murmured the fat man, looking first at the smoking cigarette and ther at the disappearing car.
 Undoubtedly you will be damned" said a Dowieite with faded brown whis- kers and silk hat, looking at him mournfully. unless you reform your profane speech. Peace be with you, broth- ern'
 The fat man fled 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 Yorker they caught with the goods on him.
 
 Dowie told of his troubles from his prosecutors, and his face began to work and his voice shook. He did not stop talking, but tears rolled down his cheeks into his white whiskers in a continuous cascade, and though he mopped his bald head frequently he made no attempt to prevent the wetting of the whiskers
 He went on to say that he did not fear ridieule, but that it was foolish to rdi- out the prophetic work with which the Lord had endowed him.
 Elijah the Prophet is a very busy man. He is president of all the Dowie corpor- ations, which incorporated in his name. Yesterday afternoon Dowie and his family went for drive and last night they rested.
 The host didn't get breakfast at the Garden yesterday morning and was ad- vised to go out among the restaurants and buy its own breakfast. Dinner, due at last night, was an hour late.
 John Gibney, a porter at the Plaza hotel, was said to have applied to Dowie for healing last night He had some trou-
 
 this edition of The Sun went to press he still had it
 There will be an "impromptu meeting' in the Garden at 6:30 this morning for the good of the host Dowie will proba- bly not attend it. The first big public meeting will be held on Sunday.
 The Rev. John Wynne, S. J., in a ser mon before 5000 persons in St. Patricks cathedral last night, had this to say of the Dowie invasion:
 Witnessing this movement of Christian restorers into the city, although there are many things about it we not only do not approve, but must even deplore. so much that is erroneous and even irrever- ent in their method of spreading religion, still, instead of ignoring or deprecating 1t, it would be well for us to initiate the extraordinary activity of this so-called church and do our utmost to cultivate the latent religious tendencies which ex- ist everywhere in the population of this great city,
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