Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
A. DOWlE VISITS OMAHA
Brother of elijah H." Founder of
Zion City. is Here.
MAY BUILD ZION NEAR OMAHA
Long Black velvet Robe and bright
yellow silk CrOss Are Habili-
ments of the 'Divine.
Healer"

James Alexander .Dowis, brother OF John
Alexander Dowie, has arrived in Omaha to
expOuhd his religious propaganda and pos
sibly to found a second Zion City near
Omaha, in Nebraska. He is accompanied
by Bishop d. II. Scrader, who is working
with him. the two reaching Omaha yester-
day morning. They are at the Hillcrest,
l02 North Eighteenth street, and expect to
remain five months.
God is in the world just as much today
as he ever was and just as great miracles
could be performed today as in the old
Bible times IL the people had the faith
hat they had then and were not filled
with tobacco, whisky, coffee and other vile
stuff" says James Alexander Dowie, who
has nothing but words OF praise for his
famous brother, who started his crusade in
Omaha in 1889, holding meetings in the old
First Baptist church at Fifteenth and
Davenport streets. John Alexander Dowie
went from Omaha to Chicago.
My church is the Holy Christum Science
church. not Christian Scientist, which is
humbug. My brother's church was the
Holy Catholic Science church. My brother
took up the teaching of another branch
OF our family, but 1 teach the truth as
~expounded by my mothers grandfather in
~@Nt oNAhhahyt III At91. II a Hidu mas
faith 1 can heal anything, though. of
course. I can't make a man walk if his
legs are cut off or 1 can't make him see II
his eyes lave been gouged out"
James Alexander Dowie wears a long
black velvet robe with a bright yellow silk
cross sewed on the front, the cross being
decorated with a number of spangles. He
says he has worn robes since he was 7
years of age and that the decorated robe
is the exact counterpart of that worn by
Moses. The old Mosaic law is the doc
trine he expounds. though he wears the
cross and says he brings Christ into all
his teachings. When asked how he recon-
Giles the injunction of Moses of ian eve
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" with
Christ's teaching to bless those who curse
you" and to turn the other cheek to the
adversary who smites you on one, the "di-
vine healer said that he "just goes be-
tween"
A hall will be hired by James Alexander
Dowie and Bishop Scrader and nightly
meetings held. Their program is to show
the people that the ministers err in their
teaching of the scriptures and to show why
they have not the power to heal; also to
convince them that they can live longer.
as did Methuselah, IL they eat no meat.
drink no tea coffee or intoxicants, use no
tobacco and live the simple life.
Bishop Scrader is the pope of the Divine
Catholic church. which he started In San
francisco twelve years ago and which he
says now has 100000 communicates He
has now consolidated with Dowie's church
OF 5000 members. The two men. came to
Omaha from Sioux City, where they spent
but two weeks. James Alexander Dowie
says Sioux City is a bad, bad town and
that no good can come out of 1t.
While in Omaha he expects to complete
the compilation OF what he says will be
the true Bible as it was before the trans
lators mutilated IL.