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Show IELIJAH DOME IS CALLED Iff DEATH Recently Deposed Head of the Zionist Church Unexpectedly Unexpect-edly Passes Away. "Chariot of liirael and the Horsemen hereof" Not In Waiting This Time, and Man Who had a Remarkable Career Dies Like Common Mortals. II Chicago. John Alexander Dowlo, I In no more, having passed away at I 7:40 Saturday morning, March 9, nt I' Shlloh linage, 'Aon City, then1 being ' present with him when he died only I?. Judge O. Barnes, and his two per il' sonnl attendants. Dowlo had been In I poor health for the past llvu weeks, I but his dentil was unexpected. I John Alexander Dowlo was born In I Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 1847. In I ISfiO his parents removed to Adolnldo, If Australia, where for seven years the I youth was clerk In a business house. I, Hero Dowlo developed tho coinuierclal j Instinct that torved him so woll In II later life. Ho saved enough money I; during this period to return to Edln- burg at the nge or 20 to toko a fl ve il years' course In theology nnd the nrts. li Six years of denominational activity U wearied Dowlo, who longed for a wld- : er Meld of operation. Ho forsook his church nnd, In 1878, went to Mel-k Mel-k bourne, where he set up a frco Chris-Inn Chris-Inn tabernaclo, tho llrst of Its kind, and orgnnlzed a dlvlno healing nsso-i nsso-i elation, which afterward became Inter- nntlonal In Its character. Ho becamo l president of this association nnd I gained fame by going out Into tho f. Country during tho prevalence of put- "i rid fever and apparently effecting , 'many cures by prayer and tho laying on of hands. Dowle landed In Snn Francisco In : 1883 needing money. He needed $250, ' ajjd had Just told his wlfo ho had "asked .God for It," ho Bald, jvhon a mnn he had not seen In months enmo ,1 nlong nnd put the amount In his t hands. That was the starting point ' )n his wondorful money-getting career In tho western world. Two years of -wandering along the California coast followed and then In 1890 Dr. Dowlo, his wlfo, his son Alexander, John Gladstone Dowlo, and his daughter, Esther, arrived In Chicago which was to bo tho theater of IiIh great work. the Christian Catholic church In Klon city, tho outgrowth of tho original orig-inal International iMvIno Healing as. Vocintlon, was formally organized In f February, 1890, Dowlo becoming gen- ! eral ovorsoer.. Four years afterwards, J Dowlo, before a largo nudlenco In the auditorium theatre, announced that ' ' he was Elijah, tho ltestorer. This as- j sumption of a Hlbllcal personality cro- i ated oven moro of n sensation nmong I his followers than nny of the worldly 1 .mcccsses of tho "prophet." Previous to this Dowlo had marked j out his plun for Zlon city, the crown- ' lug effort of his llfo. Six thousand acres of land wore purchased and In t 1 August, 1901, tho nrst building was H 1 erected in SCIon City, which n year pi f later had a population of 10,000. I I" Zlon City Dowlo was supreme. u I Tho title of the 0,000 acres bought ,? with tho money of tho sect, rested In him. Lots wore- leased, not sold. Eight een months ago ho began tho promotion promo-tion of a second 'Aon City In Mexico. While engaged In this undertaking his health failed nnd ho went to Jamaica Ja-maica for his health, While thoro ho suffered a stroko of paralysis, from fi which ho never fully recovered. It was nt this tlmo that Wilbur ! I Glenn Vollvla, formerly Dowie's right- 5. ? hand man, secured chargo of ZIon i City and practically doposed his for- I mer mnster, being now at tho head 1 of former followers of DojWlo. |