Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-03-14
A PICTURESQUE CAREER
Born in Scotland, Finely Educated
Preached and Healed in Austria.
liza, Came to Chicago in 1890 and
Later Established Famous City
on the lakeshore.

ieauer mas SHOWN The members of
the Christian Catholic church how
dear to them the old man was.
Death claimed him as a fallen
leader of the church and in the
midst of the creation of his Dreams
Zion City--a broken, fallen, tottering
old man, deserted by his flock.
He lied Saturday with prayer and
song on his lips, still displaying his
uncomfortable spirit and will and
without seeking or forgiving his wife
and son. A. Gladstone Dowie, the
| 'unkissed.
| When Mrs Dowie received word
OF the death she was Frustrated. She
is at Ben McDhui, Dowie's former
summer home in Michigan, which
palatial establishment was wreste1
from him by the courts and given
over to his wife and son.
The funeral is set for Thursday
when great demonstration will be
within sight of Lake Michigan and
an imposing tomb is projected.
The life history of Dowie is like "a
piece or fiction. Born in obscurity
in Scotland in 1917 and reared amid
humble surroundings, he attracted
no special attention, except such as
might be bestowed upon charla-
tan, until his Chicago career drew
the Imeiight upon him and illumin-
ated his path in way that no other
man in America ever experienced be-
fore.
With decade he became absolute
monarch of a kingdom peculiarly his
own-as tyrannical and grotesaue a
ruler as ever set on mythical
throne created by novelist. From
abject poverty he became a multi
| milllonaire, who lived with regal
splendor while his minions danced
attendance to his slightest wish. For
Dowie nothing was too ostentatious,
nothing too costly. no sacrifice on
/ the part of others too great to Goa
tribute to the glory of his personal
reign. In Edinburg he took a fine
college course-theology became
master in Greek, went to Mel
bourne, Australia. where he set I'm
free Christian tabernacle, became
noted as bold, original eloquent
preacher and organized divine
healing association. which afterward
/ became International in character
He became president of this associa.
| ton and gained fame by going out
into the country during the preva.
| renee of putrid fever and apparently
erecting many cures by prayer and
the laying on of the hands.
After ten years in Melbourne Dow
is decided to remove to England
where his association had a number
OF branches. but the fates took him
across the Pacific, and his announcer
! intention of making Great Britain
world headquarters was never car.
ried out. Dowie landed in San
Francisco in 1855. He needed $3.50
and had just told his wife he had
asked God for it, he said. when a
man he had not seen in month ;
came along and put the amount In
mis- hand. This was the starting
Ioint In his wonderful money getting
career in the western world. Two
years of wandering along the Cali.
fornia coast followed and then. Ia
1890. DR.. Dowie, his wife, his son.
Alexander John Gladstone Dowie.
and his daughter Esther arrived in
Chicago which was the theater OF
his great work.
i During the next five years Dowie
was arrested at least 100 times for
violation OF the city ordinances re.
lating to the care of the sick. but the
more trouble that was made for him
the more he prospered in reality.
Branch churches were established in
other cities. A large hospital for tn
healing of the sick was built in Chi.
cago. and college for the training
,cf missionaries was organized. Then
Zion City was built. industries estab
llished. domestic troubles ensued. next
an insurrection in his church and now
at last the end OF ALL Dowie had
long been i'll, and death was due tc
! bright's disease. Eighteen months
: ago Dowie tried to establish another
, Zion in Mexico. broke down in health
went TO Jamaica Gin 1867 had q
r stroke OF apoplexy. and at that time
lappcinted Wilbur Glenn voliva lis
first lieutenant and general overseel
/ of the church. A month after volivs
A took charge in Zion City he. by :
!. power of attorney. vested in him b,
. Dowie. had all the property belongins
to the church transferred from Dowis
: to 0verseer Granger. charging ex
5 itravsgance and gross mismanage
!, Iment by Dowie.
) Dowie FASTENED back to Zion anl
. tried to stem the tide that had Sc
against him, but his efforts were il