The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26
Zion The Wonder of
the Twentieth Cen
fury
By Apostle Anton Darms

BY Apostle Anton Darms
The establishment of the City of Zion
is the 7vonder of the Twentieth Century
By provision of the constitution and
statutes of the State of Illinois, John Alex
Dowie founded the City of Zion on the
shore of Lake Michigan, midway between
Chicago and Milwaukee,
The Motto, selected by John Alex. Dowie
for the year 1901, was the words, Arise We
and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our
God. >. jeremiah 31:6.
Monday, July the 18th, was the date set
for the opening of the gates of the City of
Zion, which was to be place of refuge for
the afflicted Of Gods people, city for
those who would live godly in Christ Jesus,
where the true Christian home would be
established and maintained in all its purity
and where the people of God could be
trained and prepared for the coming of
Jesus Christ Our Lord.
In large bold letters, the declaration was
sent far and wide throughout all parts of
this and other lands, that at last city had
been established where there were
NO
Breweries or Saloons
Gambling Hels
Houses of Ill-Fame
Hog Raising, Selling, and Handling
Drug and Tobacco Shops
Hospitals or Doctors Offices
Theaters, Lodges, or Apostate Churches
Bad Books, Pictures, or Papers
Nor any other curses or denominations,
which defile the spirits, souls and bodies
of men.
In an Editorial by John Alex. Dowie,
published in Leaves of Healing Vol 9, No.
II, prior to the opening of the gates of the
City of Zion, the declaration was made that
the land would be conveyed by Lease only
and not by deed, the land being leased for
One Thousand One Hundred Years, leav-
ing us Zone Hundred Years for the Lords
coming and the Rapture of the saints, which
will be followed by the return of Christ and
His saints for His Milennial Reign-One
Thousand Years"
The City of Zion was established upon the
statute given by Moses to the children of
Israel found in Leviticus rs :23, "a:
The land shall not be sold forever; for the
land is mine; for we are strangers and soourn-
ers with me.
And in all the land of your possession We
shall grant redemption for the land
The position taken by John Alex Dowe
in opening the gates of the City of Zion
was that the land of Zion City shall never
be allenated from God. 1t came from God :;
it was given to us by God; and it must be
used for God and for Him alone
He, therefore, declared that every evil
thing forbidden in certain parts of the Word
of God, in the Old Testament and in the
whole of the four Gospels of Our Lord and
Savior Jesus the Christ, will be absolutely
forbidden in Zion City forever. Zion CITY.
by the Grace of God will be clean and the
things and the people that attempt to deh1e
and destroy it will be resolutely removed
and kept away to the utmost extent of Our
power. Generation after generation will
then grow up in Zion to be blessing to this
and every land IN this and all the coming
time
The State of Illinois has reason to be
proud of the little community of Zion
where thousands have come from MANY
parts of this and other lands for the pur-
pose of working out the ideals of the teach
lngs of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
as given in the sacred Word of God. 1t
stands to reason that not many of the world
ly-wlse fell in with the project of such high
and inspiring purpose. 1t was left for
class Of common and humble people to make
good its great project of establishing
Christian Commonwealth "in the midst of
the babel cities of the world, where vice
vaunts shamefully in the oDen day his dis
ease-breeding and his disgusting heshly