Show I I TIlE IE CASK OP DO C I Alexander DowIe Dowle came to lo America Ameria 1 in 18 a and 11 found his wa way to lo Chi Chi- cago cao He was English by br bIrth and amI J po possessed c d too loo much energy for Cor that j staid tai clime lie He c ba hail had tried his fortunes s f in Australia Austrilia Something too radical v i- i for fr the ans he found small smal I favor there r and brought and brought blought a wife and 1 herc ane ant 1 1 a kOll and about a hundred dollars In 1 t m money nc to to the land of the free Cree l 1 He ne began can to lo preach a peculiar go gois- gois gob gob- I- I pi and the thc thousands already alread vork- vork y t 4 Ing log on the tho preparation for the worlds world's fair air went to hear him He Hc enjoined I F an Intensity of or religious belief beler a fervor fer reI- reI vor f. f of faith and proclaimed his c Cec creed vr cd in such uch positive terms having I learned red something from his Austral Austral- o j 1 I Ian l experience that the people folK followell fol- fol K lowed lowell him His congregation grew Ho He had not mone money enough to rent chairs hals hal's for h hi his auditorium when 1833 19 dawned and had to get gel security for i. tho As the tho the tho loan Joan of the tho furniture crow crowds s Increased e with the progress of tho the fair Call Dowies Dowie's anathemas his divine dl heaH healing i an and his separation of oC his from followers from the rest of the tho thoI I world worl attracted an U increasing aUen- aUen tion lon He cursed curbed doctors and drug stores I Ho lie clr tobacco and spirits spirIs He lie curt curbed pork When the tho papers ma made e sport aport of oC his he cursed tho the il c reporters and and t still sll more people went to hear heat him 1 It I was part port of ot the the- the Dowie Dowle plan to tomake 0 mal make e people prove the tho faith that was in them His ills followers were cash cath con- con Dowie Dowle rented the aU auditor auditor- ium lum for rot every cely Sun Sunday a afternoon for fOl three years yeal's It I 1 Is the bIggest auditorium audi audi- aull- aull he between tween the tho tabernacle at tt Salt Sail Lako Lake an and the Metropolitan opera houe In New w York And nd he lw filled It Itlo itI I to lo crowding at ut e Cl every meeting He lIe numbered his converts b by the tho thousands thousands S ands an and his hil missionaries were cre in inS S m nearly el e every tate state He bought hought a ten ten- story hotel and filled It I with bank hank and offices hospital and store He S. S gathered his finances and bought a great tract of ot land on the shore of ot Lal Lake o Michigan and founded Zion He lie 10 S S established silk mills mis and candy mills mill Sand and a n plant for tor or preserving fruit He lie le had many In industries and hIs hla Zion was vas a n mo model el of ot morl morality and obe obedience obedi obedi- lence l- l ence ence to lo the will wl of or one oe man Undoubtedly he did good oo TinS Undoubtedly Un Un- S l many men were helped by hi his ministrations Without doubt doubtS S i i h S thousands of women have ha escaped pain 1810 an and evaded evade trouble b by the simple process of or throwing their burdens by hy faith on the arrogant and amI assertive e I leader cad er Time did for Dowie Dowle what all al his enemies enemies and and he ho carefully cultivated cull thc these could e-coll e could not OOt do It I o overthrew w him hint He lie took tool a thousand disciples l to lo Ne' Ne l' l York and ant stormed the wick wickedest e edest cst of cities cites at al an expense of 30 O- O a tiny lIar And AmI they laugh laughed Il him out of the Madison Square Squar en en In years lr nervous aware of the tn enl end that must come the man who had been a dictator sought Hought comfort in inthe inthe II the more genial clime of or the tl Vest est In Indies Indies In- In dies dies And his commands from there arc aie dist ed HI His power Is gone ThE They say y ZIon has fallen that Dowie has failed One of oC the big blE eastern papers a strong e editorial proving pro by the Dowie Dowle Incident ent the CalIC fallacy Cal fal lacy IC of or socialism And nd the general tone lone Is one of oC condemnation for fOl th the whole scheme end and all al Its Is Incidents We Ve c har hardly hally lly think that thai conclusion fol fol- lows 10 Long LonS before Dowle Dowie came men have been en con converted and lt have ha c abal abandoned a course of or wrong wrong conduct conduct Maybe fa be It I was drinking Maybe dabe Ia bc it I was worse For years cal they have lived clean J e lives and then some have gone back to lo the follies foles and ant the frailties of at the h former fanner course coure But lut no one can saCci safely S say the they arc are worse for Cor the period pello of ot ri right ht living The They have had hat that much of oC good oo at any rate It Ii can cn never h be betaken taken from fron them It I Is a ml tal to lo to toa say pay a they would have hae been better beller betel oft off never le cr to have been reclaimed So with these he e thou thousands nl who have hav Implicitly followed the lead of th the founder of the Dowie cul cult For FOI the 10 most t part his people have iao come from the class which has not a great deal eal of oC money from Com the thc class cass which can cannot cannot cannot not afford the sins of or the world worl without without with with- wIh- wIh out inflicting suffering and md obloquy upon those whom hom they should support support The These e people have o ha been bettered and 1111 have lived el 1 for years cars the thc better beter life In unnumbered cases case's cases they will wi continue continue con con- living ins 1 t without regard to th the fate of ot their thel leader ea er because thc they have become fixed ii In the better beter wa way way way- as formerly they had been lied In the thew w a orse Ise IseI It I Is too serious a problem to be beh solved h d with wih the c cynical cry of or con em- em nation nalon When hen thousands s of men inca and 11 women have been better an and happier through years of earthly living what man shall ha declare decare the thc cause which controlled them has been a failure |