The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-08

| Dec. Appealed for 81 200, 900 to meet
pressing debts
May Z, 19O5-Planned to refund Zion's
debts by s7,oO0,ooO bond issue.
With all his money getting Dowie
the numbers Of his followers The fre.
quency with which crusades for con-
verts are associated in the minds Of
the readers Of Dowie' s biography with
crusades for gold, seems to point to a.
connection between the two, but per-
haps it is purely accidental.
Tried to "save" New York.
The spectacular effort at the work Of
conversion made by Dowie was that for
the regeneration Of Greater New York,
Oct. IA, 1903, eight special trains, bear.
ing something like four thousand of the
faithful, headed by the prophet, left
Chicago for New York. The crusade
was to cost not less than 100000. But
what of that's The prophet, it is said,
had limited that it would bring re-
turn of $2,000,O00. The hint again sug-
gests the boomer, the man in the busi-
ness Of religion for the sake Of profit,
not prophecy. But: the people Of New
York would not go to Dowie 8 meetings.
They We're not drawn by Dowie IS mag
netism. They were immune. They knew
the financial game too we'll to be
caught with it even when it wore a
religious coating. He gave up the cru
SADIE, and went back to Zion City, there
to be sued by his creditors, another in
dication of the approaching end, the
| approaching bursting Of the main bub-
! BILE, which had failed to receive sup
port by the burst film Of the New York
crusade.
Zion too Hot for Him.
! Zion City began to grow hot, too hot
for a city Of refuge and too hot for
Dowie.- He decided upon trip around
! the world. He went, to Australia,
| whence he cabled of great successes il
| his work. Two days after his cable mes
sage was sent he was mobbed at Sgd.
ney. He left Australia and his sue
cesses' there and went to Paris, then
not kindly received by a mob that came
out to meet him. And even at the
Hotel Cecil his money was not wanted
and he was elected. Perhaps this had
something to do with sudden decision
to return to Zion City. ,*.
| Money matters began to press.
! Dowie's collection boxes at Carnegie
hall, New York, netted him only IS
cents-a straw showing the tend Of
l U1OuU1Cs 11OWCNOl, uC L OAS0O, ptOO,UOO
and had all bankruptcy proceedings can
celed.
Stricken with Disease.
Then came his first illness. It was
said to be paralysis. That was while
negotiating for land for colony He
returned to New York, and was there
again stricken. He then went to
Mexico to recuperate-this man who
had said he could do no wrong, and that
disease was evil, and yet was stricken
with disease.
When he departed he appointed one
/ of his followers, Voliva as general
overseer. Now this appointee Of
Dowie s, and Dowie IS own wife and son
have turned against him. Scandal is
he can do no wrong is said to have been
urging polygamy upon his followers and
his name is coupled unhappily with
! those of certain women of his city.
Furthermore, while he has attempted to
depose his overseer, that same man has
declared Dowie dethroned, and threat
ems the so-called prophet with arrest for
| the misuse of funds if he returns, at the
same time planning to have himself APP
pointed receiver for all the vast inter-
ests Of Zion City. The greatest bubble
Of the master bubble blower has burst.
| A Remarkable Man.
| The career Of Dowie is one Of the
| strange things Of life He has shown.
In the building Of Zion City, the assem-
bling of factories and business inter
ests, the organization Of large enter
prises like that Of the New York cru
SADIE. executive genius Of high order.
But in religious matters he is either a
self hypnotized hysteric or knave. He
is said to have seen visions. to possess
g strong vein of Scotch mysticism
fruitful soil for the self suggestion that
has resulted in his boast that he is the
prophet foretold by the prophet Mala-
chi. However, on the other side stands
his ever recurrent demand for money.
Money! Money! has been his cry.
Millions have poured into his hands, vet
he has asked for more, until one grows
to feel that. his religion has been only a
huge pretense by which to extract
money from his followers.
| If he is an imposter, knavish. reli-
gio-fnancial boomer, he is a master
hand. But his bubble has burst
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