The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Since that time Dowfe had been
gradually failingas Friday afternoon.
however, there sweEasnos indications of
| approaching death. He received a
few followers and pray ed for some
| people y His condition seemed to be
about the same as for the last two or
three weeks. One OF the attendants
remained with him until midnight and
was relieved by the other attendant.
Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning
! Dowie became deliriOus and his talk
was the same as at religious meeting
in the days of his prime. He de-
nounced people with the old time
vigor. ordered the guards to throw out
disturbers and acted just as he had on
so many previous occasions. He grad
ually became weaker and weaker and
the attendant telephoned for Judge
Barnes who reached Shiloh house at
Z a. m. Forty minutes later Dowie
was dead.
No arrangements have vet been made
was unexpected. A large number of
followers and others are gathered at
Shiloh house to pay their respects.
Mrs. Dowie, Judge Dowie. the proph
cts father. and his son, who are at
Ben McDhu, Mich, have been notified
and are expected a Zion City today.
Judge Barnes. who was a. the bedside
of Dowie. is a member of Volivas coun-
ell. but remained friendly to Dowie.
believing him to be insane and not re-
sponsible for his actions Dowie's wife.
father and son held the same view and
it is therefore believed, though they
were estranged,4 that they will attend
the funeral.
Story of His Life
John Alexander Dowie was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, Ma" 25 1S47.
In 1850 his parents removed to
Adelaide. Australia, where for seven
years the youth was clerk in a business
house. Here Dowie developed the
commercial instinct that served him
so we'll later in life. He saved enough
money during this period to return to
Edinburgh at the age of 20 to take a
five years course in theology and the
arts. He became a master of Greek
and Hebrew and cultivated a literary
taste. that resulted in after years in
library of 10000 volumes with
which he was thoroughly familiar.
Six years Of UNCONVENTIONAL activity
wearied Dowie, who longed for
wider field of operation. He forsook
his church and in 1878 went to Mel
bourne. where he set up free Chris
tfan tabernacle-the first of its kind
and organized a divine healing associa-
ton which afterwards became inter-
national in character. He became
president and gained fame by going
valence of putrid fever and apparently
effecting many cures by prayer and
the laying on of hands.
After 10 years in Melbourne Dowie
QeCiQeu u IeIlONe~ " Wnere
his association had number of
branches. but the fates took him
across the Pacific and his announced
of making Great Britain
world headquarters was never carried
out.
Dowie landed in San Francisco in !
1883. needing money. 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 months. came
along and put the amount in his hand. |
That was the starting point in his |
wonderful money getting career in the !
western world. Two years of wander
ing along the California coast followed /
and then in 1890. Or Dowie, his !
wife, his son, Alexander John Glad |
stone Dowie. and his daughter. Esther, !
arrived in Chicago, which was to be |
the theater of his great work.
During the next five years Dowie was |
arrested at least a hundred times for |
of the city ordinances relat- |
ing to the care of the sick but the /
more trouble that was made for him, |
the more he prospered. Branch churches |