Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10
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D0WlE'S DEATH WILL Nut
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History Of Elijah Second and How
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who reached Shiloh house at a. m.
Forty minutes later Dowle was dead.
No Funeral Arrangements
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral. The death Of Dowie
was unexpected. A large number of
followers and others are gathered at
Shiloh house to pay their respects.
Mrs. Dowle, Judge Dowie, the
prophets father and his son, who are
at Ben McDhui Mich, have been
notified and are expected today.
Judge Barnes, who was at the bed
side Of Dowie is q member of Volivas
council but remained friendly to Dow
ie, believing him to be insane and not
responsible for his actions. Dowies
wife, father and son held the same
views, and it is therefore believed,
though they were estranged, that they
will attend the funeral.
John Alexander Dowte was born IN
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 1S47. In
1860 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 in
later life.
He saved enough money during this
period to return to Edinburgh at the
age Of 20 to take a flve-year course in
theology and art. He became mas
ter of Greek and Hebrew and culti-
waited literary taste that resulted In
after years in a library of 10000 vol
umes, with which he was thoroughly
familiar.
Wanted Wider Field
Six years of denominational activity
wearied Dowie, who longed for wider
field of operation. He forsook his
church and in 1878 went to Melbourne,
where he set up free Christian taber-
nacle, the first of it's kind, and organ
lied a divine healing association
which afterward became international
in character. He became president Of
this organization and gained fame by
going out into the country during the
prevalence of putrid fever and appar-
emily effecting many cures by prayer
and the laying on of hands.
After ten years in Melbourne, Dowie
decided to remove to England, where
his association had a number of
branches, but fate took him across the
Pacific and his announced intention of
making Great Britain world head
quarters was never carried out.
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 a
man he had not seen in months came
dlOuB anu put Ine amount III MS ndnu.
That was the starting point in his
wonderful money getting career in the
western world.
Goes to Chicago
Two years of wandering along the
California coast followed and then, in
1890, Mr.. Dowie, his wife, his son AL
exander John Gladstone Dowle and
his daughter Esther, arrived in Chi
cago, which was to be the theater of
his great work.
During the next five years Dowie was
arrested at least a hundred times for
violation of the city ordinances relating
to the care of the sick, but the more
trouble that was made for him the more
he prospered. Branch churches were
established in other cities, large hos
pital for the healing of the sick was
built in Chicago, printing plant put
in operation and a bank was also
started.
The Christian Catholic church in Zion,
the outgrowth of the original In
ternational Divine Healing association,
was formally organized in February,