The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-11
No NEED TO BOTHER ABOUT FINANCES WHEN
PEOPLE ARE CONVERTED


that has come from South Africa When one of
you gets a little stubborn spell and says, I
have been paying ten cents month tithes and |
am going to STOP, just remember that ninety-lve
pounds sterling nearly five hundred dollars,
49, comes from South Africa to- make up your
ten cents.
"When people are really converted we do not
have to bother about finances, because they give
cheerfully from the heart.
Nov, that is the spiritual condition - every
one truly converted, everyone born again, every
one child of God, family altar, thanks at the
table, thanks for Gods Nessings
EVERYONE IN HIS PLACE
"Is everyone in ZION Choir tonight that should
be there? If there is one here that ought to be
in this Choir, do not believe you are very COM
Portable. If everybody would do as you have
done, there would not be any Choir. Do you
want to take the responsibility of entirely dis
banding and putting out of existence ZION Choir?
What are you going to say when you come up
against battle, when you know that you were
out OF your place and was unfaithful? You can
settle that with God, but I would not want to be
in your place.
The same thing applies to anyone who ought
to be in this Orchestra, and the same is true of
the Band and ZION Guard
Brother are you taking your place? Sister
are you filling your place? Are you satisfied?
Il want you to realize that everything has
beginning. ZION Band had beginning. What
ZION Band is today it has become after period
OF years through faithfulness in attending re-
hearsals in taking private lessons and in sticking
to it. Others have started, but only small num-
Der, comparatively, finish the race.
zion Guard has been built up in the same
way The members came from all parts of the
United States and other countries - from Texas,
illinois, Dakota, Ohio Pennsylvania, Canada,
England and Australia
Il am going to ask you another question
How many in the Choir were members of it dur
ing John Alexander Dowie's ministry? (Some
here and there in the choir gallery arose) I
want you to look at this company. That is com
paratively small number Those ladies there
were little girls in the Junior Choir then. That
is more than thirteen years ago.
There are many interesting things in ZION,
can tell you.
SERVICE GIVEN WILLINGLY
u will tell you what love about these organ
izations. You do not have to get out with
whip after the members. Did anyone come a.
round growing at you about coming here to-
night? This whole business is spontaneous and
the work is done with willing heart Do you
ever hear Wilbur Glenn Voliva saying Z am
boss here and will take you by the nape of the
neck and throw you out of the Window No.
A man that is called of God to work for humani-
ty, man that is called to give his life for his
fellowmen, does not talk like that
"a man who is called of God to place of
responsibility in the Church fills his office so quiet
" and easily that you do not know he is doing
it. The rule in ZION is the rule of the HOLY
Spirit, and | watch very closely lest any officer
should make mistake and resort to compulsion.
There is nothing accomplished by driving and
compelling.
All these testimonies that have been given
the past two months have been perfectly free and
spontaneous. You will never know the good
they have done Letters come in from all over
the world from people who have read your little
testimony and many hearts have been touched
and lives changed. Do I make you testify?
Never for one second. When the Holy Spirit
gets after man. you get a response, you have
something. That is what love about ZION to-
day.
There is a free platform in ZION. There is
a joy in ZION today such as we never had in
ZION even in her best days. May God help us
to keep it that way.
ZION A THEocRAcY, Nor DEMOCRACY
"Z1oN is Theocracy!
"Z1oN is not Democracy!
John Alexander Dowie will be better under
stood ten years from now than he is tonight.
More than one person is wrestling with John
Alexander Dowies ministry today and it will
not down. When he proclaimed the Theocracy
he was right.
'That has been the issue, . what Z1oN's enc
mics call the one man rule. But beloved in Jesus
the Christ, Zion enthusiastically, commercially
and educationally, all that you see tonight, - and
will give you some details, - has been built
up under what they call the one man leadership.
Il would not continue in this work another