The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-17
God Had His Man Ready to Form the
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion


the message and to form the Christian
Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, and that
this organization, of all in the whole world,
stands today as Gods Church in its organ
lied form. If did not believe that, I would
be fool to stand up here for five minutes,
and anybody else would
What anybody thinks about it does not
alter the fact. 1t does not make bit of
dlference-rot particle.
| know there are other people who talk
about this thing and that thing, but I never
heard the Devil make very much fuss about
them.
Live Church Will Stir Up the Devil
John Alexander Dowie stirred the Devil
up thousand fold more than all the rest of
them put together.
He said, "a live Church will draw the fire
of the Devil"
Some people are very particular to avoid
any conflict with the Devil. They are like
some police officers-always running away
from trouble and never where you can get
at them when you want them. They see
what they want to see and they do not see
what they do not want to see.
Poor humanity
One lady said to me, eve have a very fine
preacher and he swings a Masonic charm"
A very fine preacher-swings Masonic
charm!
That is all they care about it-bind as
bats
'Well, we had great revival in our
Church" one says.
what did you revive?"
For the r11Oct 0ort Won oo,,or of
theater goers, dancers, moving picture show
Talk about a Christian reading a Sunday
newspaper!
You Can Come Up to the Standard-It Will
Not Be Brought Down to You
A mighty low standard they have!
Some people say, "Your standard is too
high"
No, the standard is not too high You
can come up to 1.-THE standard will never
be brought down to YOU
If you think you can chew tobacco and
spit it around and smoke an old pipe, and
swear, and belong to a dozen secret societies,
and run around hugging some other mans
wife in the dance hail. and be Christian
you can think it, but [ want to tell you, YOU
are going straight to Hell and you will find
out that it is more than hole in the ground
Zion Born the Same Year as the Zionist
Movement
Perhaps you do not know it, but this
organization was born the same year that
the Zionist Movement was born-1806. And
one of the most interesting things on the
whole earth today is the Zionist movement.
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first ship, since Noah's Ark started to float,
manned entirely by Jews?
That is very significant event.
The Zionist Movement has to do parti-
cularly with the Jews-this Movement has
to do with the Jews, the Genties and the
Church of Cod and the ministry of John
Alexander Dowie was in strict accordance
with God Almightys Plan; and his first
declaration was The Theocracy-the Rule
of God
He witnessed against the apostasy from
Dan to Beer-Sheba
If time would have permitted, tonight,
would have read a number of extracts to
show you the spirit.
You know there is Zion spirit-make
no mistake about it. You do not find it
anywhere, else in the world.
A Zion meeting is different from any
other in the world.
Statement by John Alexander Dowie in 1902
that Days of Preparation Would Possibly
Last Twenty Years Longer
I want to read you few words from an
address by John Alexander Dowie:
My church is at peace said minister
to me one day You are always having
trouble in your church,
II said, 4 am glad that do because I
have life
"Well,' he said, T like my church be-
cause it is quiet
IT said, L have seen church of your
kind today, tens of thousands of them, and
they were like you, at peace, all under one
shepherd
"'Where did you see them?
In the City Cemetery; they were all
dead, and the Shepherds name was Death
"That is the kind of a church that is at
peace with the world, the flesh, and the Devil
today-a dead church
"a living church that processes, possesses,
and enforces the Divine Law, will. be in
trouble all the time with the world the flesh,
and the Devil, and never at peace with any
of that triumvirate of iniquity. 1t will be
at war with Intemperance, Infdelity, and
Impurity; and with every form of evil, and
it will be church that will proclaim every
where The Theocracy-The Rule of God
"When Napolean led his army in the great
battle of the Pyramids, under the Great
Pyramid of Gizeh, he said to his troops, as
helrode along the line, pointing up to that
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