The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-03-30

preparatory school, that increases steadily my
heart the years go bly, They whten my hair and put
burrows in my face but my heart grows younger,
and my faith stronger and simpler my hope bright
er and above all my love purer all these
and more clearly Divine - His Faith, His Hope, His
Love and how could my heart be anything else but
younger? Life has fewer real perpextes and the so-
ton of human difficulties is clearly to be found in
Christ alone that have other thought than just to
get to know what He said, and did, and willed,-and
that is the path, and that alone, for and for all
the world beside.
God. Protecting Care Was Over Him.
Dr. Dowies narrow escape from what might have b
injury DEATH is set forth in the following letter
/ in September 1885:
When we reached the Tabernacle this morning
found that by Gods mercy, had narrowly escaped
sion which happened shortly after left last night.
The explosion was heard by many living around,
amongst them the Fire Brigade people near; but
ing fire smoke they could not tell where it had
happened. When our caretaker opened the place for
the meetings today she found my wreck.
The flooring boards beneath had been broken and
chair had been thrown up to the roof and was lying
with the other chairs in a confused heap; and had
been sitting there it is very likely would have been in
of the planks being broken into small fragments,
and generally the room is damaged throughout, the
window sill being partly torn out. 1t my inten-
ton have remained until past eleven with
candidates for fellowship: but about quarter to ten
asked four who waiting if it would be equally
convenient to this evening, and they said
Eyes, went home, for felt weary an unprecedent-
All day, however, I had felt the shadow of death
around me- and had actually filled up, for the first
time in life, proposal for Life Assurance, telling
Mrs. Dowie that felt we'll but had feeling that
would at time, perhaps soon be called away sud-
denly.
So you see the Devil is busy, and wants to kill
outright by violence failing his being able to
with disease. "But of these things me,
neither count my life dear unto myself that might
finish my with JOY, and ministry which have
received Of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the
grace of God''
He has cast us into prison, and now he would kill
u.s. but cannot fear for to us Ito live is Christ and
people, and for the works sake glad the Lord de-
livered this occasion
Opening The Beautiful Gate of Divine Healing.
The story of how John Alexander Dowie came to pre-
Gospel of Healing through faith in the Lord Jesus CHI
Is told by him in the following words:
Early in 1876 one noontide sat in my study in
the parsonage of the Congregational Church at New
ton suburb of the beautiful city Sydney Australia
My heart very heavy for had been visiting the
sick and dying beds of than thirty of my flock,
and had cast the dust to it's kindred dust into
than forty graves within few weeks Where oh where
He Who used to heal His suffering children? No
prayer for healing seemed to reach His and yet
knew His hand had not been shortened Still it did not
from death even those for whom there
much in life to live for God and others. Strong
fathers good citizens, and than all, true faithful
Christians sickened with putrd fever, suffered
less agones, passed into deirum sometimes with
vusions, and then died. And OH what aching vods
left in many a widowed, orphaned heart. Then
there many homes where one by one, the little
children the youths and the maidens, were stricken
and after hard struggling with the foul disease, they