The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-09
DOWIE WAS BROKE
He Wired From San Antonio to
Chicago for Money.
Deacon Wilhite Dug Up $500
and Sent 1t.
JOURNEY RESUMED.
He Did Not Wait for Expiration
of the Sabbath.
Orders Private Car to Meet Him
at st. Louis.
JOURNEY RESUMED.

Zion City, April 9.-John Alexander
Dowie is broke" That is the con
struction placed upon two telegrarns
received here by Deacon Fielding h
Wlhite, secretary Of the Mexican
Paradise Plantation colony, and J. A
Paxton, lions assistant manager of
transportation. Both dispatches were
from San Antonio, in which city the
deposed First Apostle" arrived Sat
urday. Members of Dowies party
su ubscribe their names to the kilograms.
both of which we're urgent.
The dispatch to Deacon Wilhite fol-
lows:
san Antonio, Tex, April ii.
ing H. Wilhite, Zion City. ILL.,: The
iniquitous lies rejecting on the char
acter of our leader will be swept away
like chaff. Please meet us at St Louis
JOHN A. LEWIS
&C. PAXTON.
The message to Assistant Manager
Paxton was shorter. 1t follows:
San Aantonio, Tex, April ii.
A. Paxton, Zion City ILL.,: Send one
Pullman car to St. Louis. Give tickets
to porter. JOHN A. LEWIS
These hurried calls for cash and
other aid, that Dowie might reach
Zion City without further delay
brought prompt response, for within
three hours after the first request for
money was received $500 had been
wired to the scepterless leader. It de-
veloped also that Dowie's announced
reason for remaining in San Antonio
over Sunday was not of a religious
nature, but partook of the eminently
practical In other words mo funds. -
As soon as he received the $500 he
stead of leaving San Antonio today. as
had been announced. he departed from
the Texas city at $40 O'Clock Sunday
afternoon on the Mexico-St Louis
limited
BY dint of personal influence Dovvie
was given the courtesy of a special wire
from brokers' Office in San Antonio
/ into the ofIlce of Logan & Bryan. board
OF trade, Chicago. Just as soon as the
wire arrangement was made DoWie
commanded his lieutenants to ask for
cash He IS said to have kept the spe-
cial wire busy for forty-five minutes.
Private advfces have it that Dowie
had spent almost his last dollar when
| to make pretensions, and had no hesi-
fancy in retaining a suite of five luxur-
ious rooms at the Menger hotel in that
city, which cost him it is reported
here, at the rate Of at least $40 a day.
Dowie felt sure of Whites aid, how
ever
The information at hand is that
Dowie will be met by a special train
bearing press correspondents, and will
make known anew to the world his
sentiments on the insurrection at Zion.
Sermons on Dowie.
Chicago. April 9.-John Alexander
DoWie's success was made possible be-
cause of s@the loose morals of rnanv
medical students and the uncertainty
of medical science according to the
Rev. Hilton B. Williams, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Oak Park
He preached last evening on 1.-The
Passing Of Dowie-" He said:
f'Dowie and Dowieisn may be
classed as religious phenomena pecu-
liar to the close of the nineteenth cen
tury Dowie's teaching upon healing
were extreme and neither safe nor
sane He taught that trust in God
and trust in earthly means were con-
trary one to the other.
And the secret Of Dowie's success
and also Of his downfall is his amazing
| egOtism and cOnsluunata self1ShnesS
The Zion experiment was dictated. no
doubt by his desire for lordship Van
ity and almost dialbolical pride have
obtruded from his evil movement
As long as people believe in Elijah
the f1rst they will believe also in Elijah
the third" M N. Manxazarfa.n de-
clared in his lecture before the inde-
pendent religious society in Orchestra
To prevent imposture we must
strike at the original Elijah. who was
even less civilized than his American
descendant The respectable churches
are responsible for Do1Jie and his kind
4DDWAC anu Ill eOLnST SeI-aDDOlnLeQ
prophets hide behind the Bible. The
Bible sanctions polygamy. theocracy
and union of church and state Dow1e
can knock down all his opponents with
the Bible.'
Rev. w H Head, of the Asbury
Methodist Episcopal church, Thirty
first street and Parneil avenue in his
sermon last night dweIt on the trou-
First Apostles character and achieve
ments as worthy of the respect and
admiration Of the world and asserted
no unprejudiced person should believe
the countless ISLANDERS that have been
uttered against him.
The pastor said:
DO you know brethren there is
something attractive as well as pathet-
ic in the home coming of that old man.
I There was a time when God was with
that man who has built up city on
the north shore that is the wonder and
admiration Of the world am not a
/ Dowieite but I do recognize grea tness
in the founder Of Zion City
THE pathetic thing about it all is
the dishonorable way in which the
/ friend Of his bosom betrayed him
/ Voliva- was made what he is by Dowie
and he has been in office less than a
month and has gone to work ard stir
/ red up discomfort among the people of
+ Zion City. Instead of going personally
/ to DoWie and informing him of -ertain
/ apparent deviatiOns or of certain
charges against him the new overseer
has turned about and caused : popular
upheaval in the minds of the people
The pastor further asserted his belief
/ that when Dowie arrived he would
bring about peace and harmony.
Everybody to Be Arrested.
Chicago. April "a report was re-
/ ceived in Zion City today that John
/ Alexander Dowie, upon his arrival in
i Zion City viii cause the Immediate
arrest of General Overseer Voliva and
the members of his council on a charge