The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-12-07
one who ever listened to his masterful address

one who ever listened to his masterful address
es.
cit is wonderful thing that after seventeen
wears. these messages can be reproduced that
eleven years after DR.. Dowies departure you
can hear his voice and recognize it's character
istics.
''These records, made in Zion Home, Chicago,
have been used in Australia and were repro
duced in Sydney. Melbourne and Adelaide. Be-
ing of wax, it required great care to get them
there without breaking but they survived in
tact the long journey, going and coming
''These records include discourse on The
Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate; a most won
derful word picture Of The Prodigal Son. a
very characteristic address on the use of tobac-
CO. and others The address on 'stinkpots' is
one Of many which brought deliverance to hun
dreds Of men from the vile habit OF tobacco
using One Of the most wonderful sights L ever
witnessed was to see hundreds OF men rise IN
an audience and testify that they had been de-
livered from tobacco through his preaching.
"a distinguishing characteristic Of DR..
Dowe s ministry was the practical results which
followed his pointed and fearless witnessing
against vice and sin Of every kind. -
During the reproduction of the records an IN
tense stiffness pervaded the audience-and not
only the words but the very intonations Of the
voice were plainly distinguishable in almost
every part Of the building.
Anyone who has ever heard DR.. Dowie read
the following passages never can forget the
telling emphasis placed upon certain words and
the strong. dignifed, deliberate style which
riveted the attention Of the listeners
Luke 15:16-19-
And he would fain have filled his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave
unto him.
And when he came to himself, he said, How
many hired servants of my fathers have bread
enough and to spare, and perish with hunger!
will arise and go to my father, and will say
unto him, Father I have sinned against heaven'
and before thee,
And more worthy to be called tiny son:
make me as Of thy hired servants.
Nor can one ever forget his keen, searching
wav of going after the man who had defiled the
temple of the Holy Ghost with tobacco.
For instance:
eff you are going to prohibit things that are
bad to drink and eat you must go great deal
further than alcohol
II should like to be a Prohibitionist, and
am, who would go for the prohibition of the
manufacture, and the sale Of every poison IN
the shape of things that can be used either as
medical drugs, or as alcoholic liquors in
saloon.
''I should want to be a Prohibitionist Of that
internal traffic which has manufactured great
many Of you perhaps, into stinkpots. You
dirty stinkpots!
eff there is anything that is viler than an
other, and more shameful than another, it is
the fact that the American men-asssted by
few feminine persons-spend no less than seven
hundred millions Of dollars every year upon
that accursed nicotine poison called tobacco!
EFSeven hundred million dollars every year.
tEAnd for any man to call himself Christian,
and smoke or chew that Internal thing that
creates all kinds of diseases!
''He may call himself Christian, but he
smells like devil.
II will not take any stock in his Christianity
stinkpot going about perpetually, the smoke
Of his torment ascending forever and ever;
living in an atmosphere Of fire and birthstone
and nicotine, sinking his wife and his family,
sinking his home and his workshop!
Lord, said Martha about Lazarus who had
been in the grave four days, Lord, by this time
he stinketh; but what shall you say Of the man
who has been smoking five, ten, twenty, thirty,
forty, fifty years? Shall we not say, Lord by
this time he stinketh'
"You stinkpot! You dirty stinkpot!
"You call yourself gentleman, and smoke
in the face of your wife.
"You call yourself a man. and smoke in the
face Of your little children who scarcely
breathe, and whose little stomachs are de-
stroyed in their babyhood.
"You call yourself father, and go and set
that bad example to your boys, and send down
the poison through their veins, and help to
spend seven hundred millions Of dollars of
Cod money every year. I say I would like to
prohibit you"
During the service, the Ordinance Of the
Lord S Supper was observed. Also, twelve new
members were received into fellowship.
In making the call for those away from the
Ark of Safety to come out and take their stand
the General Oyerseer said: