The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-03-21
ELIJAH DOW|E IS
CALLED BY DEATH
Recently DepOsed Head of the
Zionist Church UnexpeCt-
eddy Passes Away.
Chariot Of Israel and the Horsemen
Thereof" Not in Waiting This
, Time, and Man Who had
Remarkable Career Dies
Like Common Mortals.

Chicago.--John Alexander Dowie,
Is no more, having passed away at
7:40 Saturday morning, March 8. at
Shiloh House, Zion City, there being
present with him when he died only
Judge o. ~ Barnes, and his two per
sonaI attendants. Dowie had been In
poor health for the past five weeks
but his death was unexpected
John Alexander Dowie was born In
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 1847. In
1860 his parents removed to Adelaide,
Australia, where for seven years the
youth was clerk In business house
Here Dowie developed the commercial
instinct that served him 80 We'll In
later life lie saved enough money
during this period to return 10 Edin-
burg at the age of 20 TO take a five
years course In theology and the arts.
Six years OF UNCONVENTIONAL activity
wearied Dowie. who longed for a Wild
er field of operation He forsook his
church and, in 1878, went/to Mel
bourne, where he set up free Chris
tan tabernacle. the first of It's kind
and organized divine healing asso-
citation, which afterward became inter-
national In its character He became
president OF this association and
gained fame by going out into the
country during the prevalence of put
rid fever and apparently effecting
many cures by prayer and the laying
on of hands.
Dowie landed In San Francisco In
1888 needing money. He needed $3.50,
and had just told his wife he had
asked God for It," he said when
man he had not seen In months came
along and put the amount in his
hands. That was the starting point
in his wonderful money-getting career
In the western world Two years of
wandering along the California coast
followed and then in 1890 DIR. Dowie,
his wife, his son Alexander, John
Gladstone Dowie, and his daughter,
Esther, arrived In Chicago which was
to be the theater of his great work.
The Christian Catholic church In
Zion city. the outgrowth of the orig
inal International Divine Healing as
ISOLATION. was formally organized in
February. 1896, Dowie becoming gen.
eral overseer. Four years afterwards,
Dowfe, before large audience in the
auditorium theatre, announced that
he was Elijah. the Restorer. This as.
sumption of a Biblical personality ere.
ated even more of sensation among
his followers than any of the worldly
successes of the prophet"
Previous to this Dowie had marked
out his plan for Zion city, the crown.
ing effort of his life. Six thousand
acres of land were purchased and in
August. 1901. the first building was
erected In Zion City. which a year
later had a population of 10000.
In Zion City Dowie was supreme.
The title of the 5000 acres bought
with the money of the sect, rested In
him. Lots were leased. not sold. Eight
cen months ago he began the promo
ton OF second Zion City In Mexico.
While engaged In this undertaking
his health failed and he went to ia,
maica for his health. While there he
suffered a stroke of paralysis. from
which he never fully recovered.
II was at this time that Wilbur
Glenn Volivia. formerly Dowie's right.
hand man. secured charge of Zion
City and practically deposed his for
mer master, being now at the head
OF former followers of Dowle