Show DOWIES DOWIE'S BLESSING PALL POVERTY OF POVERTY Hunger and Want Walk Hand Handin in Hand Through Zion City Streets VOLIVA DENIES CONDITION Salaries Are J in Arrears J and ancl Children CI Cry For POl Food Food Food- Many funy Leave Lea c Town Chicago May 2 Dl Disintegration threatens Zion City Hunger stalks talk about through the streets of oC the city John Alexander Dowse Dowle built and children chil- chil Iren dren cry 1 for fOI food This condition of oC affairs was wac emphasized today tocla by h the exodus of or forty eight ollY e persons who bade Zion good good-b e forever fore Since the outbreak of ot hostilities between the dethroned dethroned de dethroned de- de prophet and Ove Overseer eer Voliva fully CuI people have transferred tr n their belongings belonging to 0 other cities In the poorer poor POOl er CI sections of or Zion Lion City the tales of or distress are pitiful Families are arc said to be living on potatoes and dry bread with weak tea or coffee once a day Poverty Ih s about many of the rm remaining i. i i g m members j of D Dowies Dowie's les church The first apostle and his attendants are determines determined to tie lie up the business affairs of or the cU city Salaries In Arrears Salaries are In ht arrears In r e every office in the town and the only thing that prevents the tho people tople from crying out for Cor h help lp I Is their strange belief In Inthe Inthe the appearance ance of o a silver nver lining to lo the clouds lo They are satisfied CI to Ira pray o for Cor h bettor better th r conditions The Cl cry of oC children children chil chil- dren for Cor bread brend and hutt butter r I Is attributed to the presence nce In the city of or devils and other lIn unseen n mon monsters monster's sent h by a divine power powel- as a punishment l hm nt for tor past ast sins Ins k I 1 2 t Dt Denies At AC th rt iY whore NIt sits Voliva h In th the ties luxurious office offic all tales of huh ger and distress are arc emphatically de de- nied No one is IR hungry In this city cIU said the acting overseer If the they are HIs It H ItIs itIs Is their own fault Ue Do Near Death Dowie Dowse is Ig sal said to be near death In his room at Shiloh house he J is surrounded surround surrounded sur sur- rounded round d by a U few tew of the faithful Special Special Special cial prayers rs for the healing of the first apostle have ha been substituted for Cor the usual dally daily business pro pro- grammo gramme in some Rome quarters quarter Friends and attendants of oC eJen deny that his mental or 01 physical condition has haM caused them to halt In ht their hell fight fi ht for fo control o of Zion ell City but hut It Is 15 known b by those who are In close touch with ith the dethroned prophet that his death Is a Il matter mutter of only a short time finite Gla Gladstone Dowie Dowle said My 1 fD father ther does oes not Improve c In health I dont don't think he will ev ever 1 re re- re cover |