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Show D0WIE TELLS FIARY . . TALE TO THE COURT .CHICAGO, June 15. Jbhn Alexander Dowie, testifying In the Tiearing of the Zion City controversy in Judge Landls's court this afternoon, told of an instance when his body and soul became separated and in his spiritual being he saw his own dead body lying beneath a shroud. It occurred, he said, while he was fighting the liquor traffic In Melbourne, and was regarded by him as a divine warning that he was about to die. At another time, the witness asserted, his spirit left his body and the angel. Gabriel, and the Virgin Mary were present in the realm visited by bis spirit. This narration of life and ,des,th was brought out during cross-examination. , Dowie denied that he had ever represented repre-sented himself as Elijah, the Restorer, subsequently qualifying the statement by saying he told his people that he "came in the spirit and .power of Elijah." On September 18, 1904, he said, he proclaimed himself as the "first apostle," but when pressed for an explanation as to how he received the commission, he replied: "I can't tell you." |