The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-08
VoIiva and Associates Plan to
Bring Order Out Of Chaos and
Build Religious Community
HARD KNOCK FOX ORTHODOX
Voliva Opens His Heart to the Zion
Followers in Kenosha in Great
Speech on Sunday Giving Plans
for the Future.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva the new gener-
al overseer of Zion City opened his
heart to a select company Of his fol-
lowers in Central Music hall Sunday
morning and gave out his plans for
the erection Of new Zion on the fail
ure of Dowie which he plans to make
the greatest religious colony the
world has ever known. The plan Of
Voliva is movement of world wide
interest which will again bring to-
gether the scattered forces of Zion and
make Of them compact whole which
will be the most unique organi-
cation in the history of the religious
world. In speaking in Kenosha Sun
day Voliva started to talk on the sub
ject ''The Kingdom of God" and with
this text he outlined his plans for the
future
81 am not as yet ready to give my
policies to the world in written state
ment' he said, "but in few weeks /
will issue statement which will
make their heads swim at Zion City.
These policies of mine shall be as diff
ferent from those of John Alexander
Dowie's as day is from night. The
first command that shall be observed
in the new city is an absolute freedom
from debt. Zion is city and not
man in the city shall owe cent
John Alexander Dowie went into debt
and this sent him to the devil. In the
past ten years John Alexander Dowie
received from his followers between
twelve and twenty million dollars and
with this great hoard he made of Zion
a gigantic failure. Simply give one
third of this amount and l will make
|of Zion the greatest success that the
world has ever known"
I'm Zion now" he continued, 81 am
cleaning up horrible mess but am
going to make changes soon that will
bring into Zion tens of thousands of
people and her support will be even
greater than in the halcyon days of
Dowie. =
Il am going to make Zion a world
power. In some time not far distant
Ishall organize political party and
Zion, if am to dictate her future, will
go into the world of commercialism
and politics.
1T is my plan to establish colonies,
i know not where at this time, in
which the homeless and friendless of
the world shall be cared for. / shall
have tract of thousands of acres of
land to which will be able to invite
the homeless of the world and ask
them to take twenty acre tracks and
earn an honest living. To their ques-
tons as to the rent for the land there
will be but one reply. This is Gods
land and open for God S people,
Vo1iva declared that he had laid
plans for the establishment of two
other religious colonies. One was to
be exclusively for the people now 1iv-
ing in Zion and he declared that it
would not be open to all the people of
Zion, but that he himself would select
the people to occupy it. He stated
that his plan included the building of
another colony near it in which there
would be cottages for the use of peo-
pie taken from the slums of the great
cities. In these colonies he stated
that men would be permitted to smoke
if they wanted to and that they could
eat what they desired.
He declared that in his new Zion
there would be no place for cast or
position and that every man would be
equal in the church and before his
fellow men. He stated that he would
lay aside his long coat and put on the
coat of the worker and go out with the
other members of the church to make
Zion the greatest success.
1T will be my plan to create fac
tories for the workingmen and go down
and work with them. shall absolutely
do away with the aristocratic circle
that has grown up in Zion and hence
forth the work shall be for the down
trodden and the poor and all shall
be of equal standing
Voliva made drastic attack on the
orthodox churches and declared CT
have no use for your churches, not
one iota and if the churches of the day
represent the modern religion I will
take the platform as an infde1 and
smash them.0
Although the crowd which listened
to Voliva was small one he was
frequently interrupted by applause.
His arraignment of the protestant
churches was one of the most logical
appeals for free thought ever heard.
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