Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09

where for seven years the youth was
clerk In a business house. Here Dowie de-
veIoped 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 twenty to take a
five years course in theology and the arts.
He became master of Greek and Hebrew,
and cultivated q literary taste that resulted
in after years in a library of 10000 volumes,
with which he was thoroughly familiar.
Divine Healing Institution.
Six years of UNCONVENTIONAL activity
wearied Dowie, who longed for wider
field of operation. He forsook his church
and In 1878 went to Melbourne, where he
Sc, I'D a Free Christian Tabernacle-the fret
Of its kind-and organized a divine healing
association, which afterward became inter-
national in character. He became PRESIDENT
Of this association and gained fame py
going out into the country during the prev
alence of putrid fever and apparently ef-
fecting many cures by prayer and the lay
ing on of hands.
After ten years in Melbourne, Dowie de-
cided to remove to England, where his as
ISOLATION had a number of branches, but the
fates took him across the Pacific and his
announced intention of making great Brit
ain world headquarters was never carried
out.
Dowie landed in San Francisco In 1888
needing money. He needed $3.50 and had
lust told his wife ne had asked God for 1t,
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
them in 1890, doctor" his wife, his son,
Alexander John Gladstone Dowie, and his
daughter Esther. arrived in Chicago, which
was to be the theater for his great work.
Arrested Many Times.
During the next five years Dowie was ar
rested at least 100 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 in reality.
The branch churches We're established in
other cities; a large hospital for the heal
ing of the sick was built in Chicago and
a college for the training of missionaries
was organized; a printing plant put in
operation. and bank also started.
The Christian Catholic Church in Zion
City. the outgrowth of the original Inter-
national Divine Healing Association was
formally organized in February 1896
Dowies becoming general overseer; four
years afterward Dowie, before a large audi
ence in the Auditorium Theater, announced
that he was Elijah, the restorer, spoken of
in Malachi. This assumption of biblical
personality created even more of a sensa-
ton among his followers than any of the
worldly successes of the Prophet"
Previous to this Dowe had marked out
his plans for Zion City, the browning effort
of his life. Six thousand acres of land
were purchased or secured by options, and
in August of 1901 the first building was
erected in Zion City, which year later
had population of 10000.
He Was Supreme.
In Zion City, as we'll as the church. Dowe
was supreme. The title of 5000 acres
bought with the money of the sect, rested
in him. Lots were leased, not sold. Run
ming for 800 years these leases were filed
with the following restrictions: The prem
Uses shall never be used for slaughter
house, saloon or beer garden. tobacco store,
opium joint. theater. gambling establish
ment. dance hail. circus. pharmacy, drug
store office or residence Of practicing
physician or surgeon. place for selling pork
or secret meeting place.
In December. 1903, Zion City was placed
under control of a federal receivership,
which was dissolved a week later on
Dowie's presentation of ability to pay dol
lar for dollar for all indebtedness. At that
time Dowie estimated the value of his hold
ings in Zion City at s., 900, 900; since then
the values of the lace factory, the other in
dustries and holdings of Zion City are be-
ueved to have increased to $2s.0OO.OO0
A Second Church.
Eighteen months ago Dowie began the
promotion of a second Zion City in Mex
leo. While engaged in this undertaking
his health failed and he went to Jamaica
shortly before Christmas, 1905, for his
health. While there he suffered stroke
of paralysis, from which he never fully
recovered. II was at this time that he
appointed Wilbur Glen Voliva his first
lieutenant and general overseer of the
church A month after yoliva took
charge In Zion City he. by a power of at
torney vested In him by Dowie, had all the
property belonging to the church trans
ferred from Dowie to Overseer Granger.
charging extravaganza and gross misman-
agement by Dowie. At the time the trans
fer was made Voliva called all the Zion
lists to the tabernacle in Zion City and de-
nounced Dowie. With the exception of
less than 200 of Dowie's former followers,
all the inhabitants of Zion chose Voliva as
Dowie in Mexico that he had been de-
posed. He Immediately started for Chi
cago and took the controversy to the
courts for settlement.
Interment at Mount Olivet.
1t has been decided that the interment
will be In Mount Olivet cemetery not far
from Zion City. The date of the funeral
has not been determined. but it will not
be earlier than Thursday next
Wilbur G. Voiiva, the head of the faction
opposing Dowie in Zion City. today declined
TO make any statement regarding the in
fuence of the death of Dowie on the
future of the church or to discuss his
death in any manner
kilograms have been received from
Dowie's wife and son announcing their de-
parture from Muskegon, Mich. They are
expected to arrive in this city tonight
FINAL SERVICES HELD.