The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24
ZION'S WAR ON TOBACCO

MR.. SCHMALGEMEIER: Forty"
DR.. DoWIE: How long did it take to
get it out of you?
Mr.. SCHMALGEMEIER: "It went like
the wind blew it away"
DIR. DOWIE: Did it ever come back?
MR.. SCHMALGEMEIER: "Never."
DR. DOWIE: Did your diseases go at
the same time?
Mr.. SCHMALGEMEIER Everything
went"
DIR. DoWIE: And your wicked, bad
heart, and your sins went?
Mr.. SCHMALGEMEIER "That is it.
My sins and everything went, and |
was a free man."
DR.. DOWIE: Now, what I want to say
is this: Is not this a testimony that
will be received as facts in any court of
law?
AUDIENCE: eyes"
DIR. DowIE: My brothers, am going
to ask you a question. The testimony
you have given today to the delivering
power of God alone, from tobacco and
alcohol, would you be ready to make
oath to it before a court, if | required
it?
VOICES: EYES,"
DIR. DOWIE: I know you would.
Friends, | claim for ZION that it is the
best "No-tobac" in the world; that it is
the best no-alcohol in the world, and |
claim for ZION that
THERE is No CURE LIKE THAT WHICH
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST GIVES
to us for sin, for sickness and for these
internal powers that are about to kill
one-third Of all the men upon this
earth.
Now friends, when that one-third is
gone, l think | shall say, HalleluJah!
because the earth will be rid Of an I'M
mense amount of muck. 1t will be
nearer the coming of the King. When
that one-third is killed off, do you want
to be among them, friends?
AUDIENCE: "No."
DR.. DOWIE: Then, you had better get
in out of the smoke, and out of the
fire, and out Of the birthstone.
Do you know where the birthstone is?
Why, it is in every lucifer match you
strike. Do you know where the fire is?
It is in every fame you strike. Do you
know where the smoke is? 1t is out OF
the mouth. Do you know where the
sting is? It is in the tail. 1t is in the
tail of the cigar. It is in the tail of
the pipe, and it gets right in here (in the
mouth) and then you have cancer. A
scorpion bite would be compassionate
compared to it. All, tobacco stings
worse than scorpion: for it's sting is
a cancer!
Tt is the foundation upon which the
LIQUOR appetite rests, for multitudes are
made thirsty by it. And as you know,
many of these tobacco leaves are stepped
in drugs, stepped in morphine, stepped
in cocaine, stepped in deadly drugs,
poisons so deadly that they do not dare
to let you know what they are. What
for? To make the brain frenzied; to
make the appetite increase. The liquor
and the tobacco go together. All evils
go together.
CALL
All who want to be perfectly free
from this and every sin and to conse-
crate themselves to God, stand and ask
God now for purity.
Every man and woman who wants to
be free from every stain OF SIN, now
stand. NEARLY all rise in moment.)
PRAYER OF CONSIDERATION
My God and Father in Jesus Name come
to Thee Deliver me. Give me true repen-
tance power to do right; to give up every
evil appetite, not only outward but inward,
and secret sins Give me Thy Holy Spirits
power to confess my wrong to any whom |
may have wronged, and to restore, and to do
right in Thy sight. Have mercy upon those
who may have suffered by my sin, and take
away that sin and it's consequences, and give
power to this nation to put away every filth
ness of the flesh as we'll as of the spirit, for
Jesus sake. (Amen.) GALL REPEAT THE
PRAYER, CLAUSE BY CLAUSE AFTER DIR.
DOWIE.)
The Meeting was then closed with
the Benediction.