Show THE MAR voliva personality AND OF LEADER OF ZION S a boosler and has been a Pre muti and worker fmc he was sixteen years old chicago the imagination which originates Is always succeeded ty the matter of tact management mara gement if rain Is to be averted the ousting of john alexander dowie and the inauguration of wilbur glenn hollva in zion city is an exemplification of the rule the two men contrast absolutely physically temperamentally mentally exuberant dowie massive in frame redundant in speech magnet c and dominant in personality n and swept away by the awer of his own visions recognized la his moments of wisdom and judgment in his secret in his cio et hat in the young disc pie volin ex isted th sanity the sense the HI dence the righteous and sure faculty which would most avail zion when he influence of its founder was aith drawn spare pale ascetic cool unaffected by dreams resolute to ac the task immediately under his eye hollva is no conqueror to found communities to convert he world to gain riches in mexico fand spiritual dominion in the islands of the sea he could never invent the pageantry the hebraic cee aias the oriental splendor but he can and he will put the business of zion upon a substantial tooting he can organize he can eliminate waste he can tice economy in a word he can trans form a struggling halt bankrupt community into a thriving prosperous well to do american municipality voliva is 36 years old his hair Is black his eyes are deep set shrewd dark and piercing his shallow cheek is the aesthetics his thin close set lips are the disciplinarians not only of others but of his own spirit he eats but two meals a day frequently WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA deputy general overseer of zion who has repudiated the authority of elijah II 11 only one sometimes not at all he clothes himself in white tie frock coat low cut waistcoat he never smiles not because he is oppressed by his own dignity but because he sees no occasion tor mirth he does not attempt to impress his visitor oliva is an american a boosler who is so entirely an american that he is ignorant of what is his racial stock he has been heard to say that he fancies his peculiar name may be french but he doean doesn t know the family life of hollva has been filled with romance he received his education in newton ind where he was born in 1870 when only 16 years old he preached every sunday in a church at linden ind while he was a student at miron college while at college he met miss steele daughter ot a physician of pal estane ind who also was a student there in 1891 after his graduation he married miss steele he and his wife moved to irvington ind where they both entered butler college to continue their studies while there a child was born to them four years later they went to hiram college ohio to continue their studies while they were there the child died in 1900 dr voliva became assoni abed with dowie s church in febra ary of that year ruth the child shown in the picture was born A few months later he went to cincinnati where he remained six months and in october 1901 he went to australia after being ordained as an overseer dr voliva returned from australia to take charge of affairs at zion city a few weeks ago |