Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-03
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ribbons of purple velvet extending over the top.
 His robe was in three parts, a sleeveless box coat, an overskirt of royal purple velvet and an under robe of heavy white silk.
 The box coat was a most elaborate piece of work, composed of three-inch squares, each containing a different fantastic design in raised embroidery. Purple predominated in this coat, two inch panels of purple silk running from arm pits to the bottom. His shirt sleeves were of crinkly white silk, his girdle of broad yellow silk, while across his chest there was great breast plate of purple bearing glowing red cross. Although Dr. Dowie was too i'll to talk for publication, I was entertained by the deacons, and it was dark be- fore I walked down the steps leading from the broad veranda of Shiloh House The snow had been falling steadily, and the little city was covered 1 with a mantle of white. Outside Dowies home I encountered the guard-a tall, heavily bearded man with powerful physique. He carried a heavy cane.
 As walked toward him in the moon light he glanced at me sharply, and l am not sure suspicion did not turk n his gaze.
 You are Dr. Dowi'es personal off cer2y inquired
 T am a member of Shiloh House T, guard" he replied.
 | q admire Dr. Dowie for good busi- ness judgment" continued, attempt ing to draw him into conversation Why has he enemies7" ..... The First Apostle is proud of his enemies" was the response. .They are agents of the devil. l would no want. to be among them. No, sir, Dr lDowie is too well connected up above
 The big man spoke the last words
 in a reTerent tone, with his right hanC extended toward the heavens.
 I walked away, leaving the strange figure standing thus, striking exam lple of Dowie's magic personality. | Walking across the fields to the de pot, obtained an excellent panoramic ., view of Dowie's wonderful little citI
 as it lay stretched before me in thu might.
 Hundreds of lights twinkled in a:
 many houses, while powerful arc light!
 lit up the entire landscape.
 To explain the existence of this mod : ern, thriving, little city, it is Decessar. to go back to January 22, 1896. 1 was then, at the first general confer
 ence of the organizers of the Christian
 Catholic church. that Dowie said:
 T am simply business man in thu
 ministry; that's all. l made a busi ness of the ministry. The Lord Jesu ; n.ade a business of his ministry. II said when only a child: 'Wist ye nc , that must be about my fathers bus ness
 Dowie was practically pennies
 then He had a mere handful Of 10 lowers. But their faith in him wa . never uncertain.
 Today the real and personal propel } ty of Zion-which to the world mean Dowie, and which is legally Dowie-i , valued at nearly sl0.000,000- In othe
 words, it amounts to about $f,00O,00
 a year for business ministry.
 He has no less than 100,0 900 follow
 CTS with thriving colonies in Austrs
 lia, Mexico, England. Germany, France
 Prussia, Switzerland and even Afric [ and China
 2 Unquestionably this man is powe .. to be reckoned with while he lives. But he is the hub of the wheel an ! when he is gone-well, then you ca z lcok for collapse