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Show I PRAYED AUG 12 1-04 PM 1901 JOHN ALEX. DOWIE, A PRAYER REGISTER, his time daily praying for various Zionites whose friends or relatives have asked the general overseer to join them in prayer for healing at such or such an hour, says a Chicago paper. These requests for prayers are received by Dowie's secretaries, tabulated tabu-lated according to the specific hours at which the special prayer is sought, and taken up by the head of the Christian Chris-tian Catholic churcn at the time specified spec-ified The moment Dowie finishes a prayer he slaps the written slip into the jaws of his electric time stamp, slams his hand on top of the device and the exact time he prayed is instantly in-stantly recorded upon the sheet Here is a facsimile of one of Dowie's time stamps. When a week or so later the general overseer is informed that at such or such an hour the patient seemed to improve, im-prove, he can refer to the documentary documen-tary evidence to prove that he prayed at that hour for the healing of tle believer be-liever in his powers. Many times Dr. Dowie has produced the stamped and timed slips to convince followers ol the potency of his prayers |