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Show DOWIE DRIVES MORMONS OUT OF 'W' BY FORCE I the Mormon' church has been vanquished van-quished In Zion City after a month of quiet work under the nose Of Dowle. -The Mormon church entered the community com-munity of Dowie's followers boldly and above board, and the audacity of requests re-quests to permit Mormon missionaries to work in the chosen field of Dowle appeared to dace Elijah III., who rave his consent. The men worked a month, when the clash came between the two churches, with the result that the Mormons Mor-mons were expelled. CHICAGO, Jan: . Mormon missionaries mission-aries have been driven from Hon City and the threatened Invasion of Dowie's stronghold repulsed. . John Alexander, first .apostle of the Catholic Church of Zlon, was victorious over the attempted storming - of the citadel of Zionism when he caused to be driven from the gates of his sacred city Mormon Elders Nephi C. Sorenson and Francis E. Belknap. - The missionaries fled in disorder and (According: to the Mormon representatives representa-tives the exponents of the Latter-day Saints made great headway and noticeable notice-able Inroads in the Dowle following. They Jiad been quietly expounding their j faith cor a month, appealing to mem-! bers of Zlon in behalf of Mormonism. When stories of the progress they made reached Dowle he promulgated an edict from the pulpit of Shiloh temple, saying that any child of Zlon who would harbor har-bor or entertain the adventuring Mormons Mor-mons In their houses would be expelled from Zlon City and their - possessions forfeited. The edict had Its effect only after the secret police of . the church took the matter In hand. The missionaries were given a room on the second floor at the hospice. When they had returned to their room, after their evening meal they claim they were "met by a stout man with a florid complexion who said 'git' " "We made an effort to look up another an-other room for the night," wrote Sorenson Soren-son from Waukegan, "but none would entertain us, and we had to walk to Waukegan. We were frowned on by the Zlonites and had no place to lay our heads. We were quietly informed by officials that we would better leave the city, and when we did not start the head of the church In the secret manner man-ner employed in Zlon caused all places of shelter to be closed to us." |