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Show DOWIE CLAIMS OATH Of HON NOT TREASONABLE; JUDGES PUT GOD FIRST CHICAGO, July SO. John Alexander Dowie will appeal from the decision of Judge Landis of the Federal court, declaring Zion City a trust estate and holding that the deposed first apostle has no individual proprietorship in the estate. Dowie himself made the announcement announce-ment that action toward an appeal has bn taken at a meeting yesterday at Shiloh house, Zion City, attended .by nearly 100 of his loysf supporters. Notice of appeal will be sent at once to Judge Landis and Attorneys Patrick I C. Haley and Emil C. Wetten expect to have the appeal perfected within two weeks. Whether the appeal will be taken tak-en to the Supreme court of the United States or the United States Circuit Court of Appeals has not been decided definitely. . In his address Dowie sppeared to be more concerned over Judge Landis' denunciation de-nunciation of the "Restoration Host" oath as treasonable than any other point in the opinion. He declared that the Judge himself in his oath of office was compelled to put God above man and family ties. With reeard to the trust estate find- ing, be declared that he had never received re-ceived money as a -trustee, but thst it was always simply a matter of contract con-tract evidenced in writing showing all payments to be debts, payable in one year on call. If the election ordered by Judge Landis be, carried out. he said, the people peo-ple of Zion will be violating the whole theoretic idea, the very foundation stone of the church. He emphasized that God had not called him nor placed him as head of the church, but that he as God's chosen man had admitted admit-ted each individual member into the church. He held further that Judge Landis erred in confining vote to those living in Zion City. These Constitute only one-fourth of the entire church and thereby three-fourths of the members are prevented from having a voice as to their spiritual leader. 1 Simultaneously with the Dowie meeting meet-ing Overseer Vollva conducted the regular reg-ular Sunday services at the tabernacle. 1 The meeting was attended by 3500 persons. per-sons. Those who came in expectation of hearing the overseer and other leaders lead-ers express themselves with regard to the receivership and Judge Landis' decision de-cision were disappointed, - for not once did Voliva make even the slightest reference ref-erence to the new conditions. |