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Show 5jah" dowie tries to stem the tide that lis iowTuii"""! AGAINST HIM BECAUSE HE ABANDONED HIS FAITH FOR A DOCTOR. By Calling Medical Aid to ! Save His Daughter, the "Prophet," Who Has Made $5,000,000 in Past Five Years, Has Aroused Distrust and Dissension. Ily the shocking death nf his daughter daugh-ter a few da j a oro John Alexander Iiowle s power has ricelvcd n blow thut will probably destroj It forevei The llenlir' has prospered wonderful wonder-ful nnd ninny thousands of men and women hivo come to look up to him at to a divine pcrsonuRe ltut whin lather Uowle roelved tho fntal bums that her father vnlnU tried with all bis faith an 1 piaers to heal the 1111 It had a cleui IiisIrIiI Into the futile nature na-ture of the Institution thej helped hlin to establish Tor nt the I ist mlnuto Uowle forsook the cardinal principle of his own ireid acknowledged Ills impotence impo-tence In the faie of donib and summoned sum-moned a (lijalilnn to attend the sufferer suf-ferer It win a confession of weulnes which lircunistnnces forced from him, nnd whkh must nei ds shako tho ire-dullty ire-dullty of even tho blln lest of his disciples disci-ples Distrust and dissensions have In tvltuhly followed llsther Dowie wns n stu lent of the llniw rsitv of Chicago Atl explosion of Kasollne In her home nt ' Sinn wrnpisd her In Hume and drove lur shrieking throiiRh the house In most txerucUtlUR in In Her father was tailed He spurned medical aid, and falling upon his 1 nees at the bedside offered up prniets fot reioverj, nnord-Inic nnord-Inic tn thu foi inula of his peculiar church All day lonR this lender In Plan who chilma to be I.IIJah II , knelt at the bed sldo In BUp llcntlon His nrdent pleud-lns pleud-lns to heuven vtere npnrcntl unu-vnlllnir, unu-vnlllnir, for the patient a condition chuiKcd not At list, with the approach of iiIrM nnd whin It had beiome nil too evident tint the sun at the woman's life m settliiR Dowlo Ihiow nsldo his mintte of divinity nnd rushed frantically for a doctor It wns then too late. Death enmo In nunnlrlnR form. There, nre those who believe thnt the triRlo event was providentially ap-1 ap-1 nlnteil, to show to tho Zionists tho hu-miti hu-miti weakness of the lendei whom they worship, ln nn event It will mean a Kreit fnllliiR off In his chunk 1'iom the little prenihlnR service In a tent which he Instituted nt the World s fair he has founded u rcllKlon with lOOOfi) follow era ln C'IiIcoro nnd other cities Philadelphia, anion;? the rest, his a Dowie tabernacle situated at nil faoinerset street. Hut he has not only built tabernacles and launched a new lollRlnus itilt Ho has InauRuratcd a svstcm of hospltnls, established a bank two newspapers and n ioIIoro, and built a city which he Ins the effrontery to jiroi besy will make ChlciiRO Itt suburb and outrival any modern metropolis Imidentnlly ho has made for himself a neat little fortune of Jl 000 000, and It hoa nil eorio fiom his converts The fundamental il'iRma of their rellKlon Is that they shall Rive titles of nil that they possess In theory this Is Riven to (loel, In practice It rocs to Dowlc. This man calls himself I'.IIJih II , nnd the power by which he nttrncts the throngs who ilork to his standard Is his clilm to be ablo to heal all diseases through fnlth 5Mon City, which he has established. Is n colony nf the faithful among whom his rule Is as despotic as that of i czar Ho teaches thnt It la iventunlly to he capital of the kliiRdnm of heaven on earth nnd from Ion he, the prophet of God, will rule the the-eicraei the-eicraei In which nil tho world will bj uniieu In Zlon no saloon or ilrurf store It nl-lowed nl-lowed Not only Is no liquor or tolnico permitted lo be sold, but nn doctor or dentist Is lormltted to practice, Tho cltv Is laid out ten miles square on the shores of Mko Mlihlgan, near tho outskirts of ChloaRo It was consecrated con-secrated on the 12th of Jul, 1H01 Every dollar's worth of propcrts there Is In Dowlos inn e, ns he Is called the Ren-ernl Ren-ernl overseer of tho Christian Catholic thtirrh homo of tho land cost him JiOO an aire He paid cash down for 1000 acres and then opened up his lind sale. On tho firrt day his follnwirs poured Into the new city In novels Two hundred carlo ids of tents, commissary supplies nnd other equipment preceded them Dnwlis ginnted them leases or tho land Rood foi 1000 jenrs He did this at prices whlih when nil the land Is tn-I tn-I en. will teliirn him a profit of JtSOOO.-000 JtSOOO.-000 on tho deal llio people lived In tents until thes could piovldo themselves with better abodes, Thej Immediately prnciitled to turn the prairie wilderness into n irieat nietlnpolls Tho workmen fired with religious real, tolled llko beavers They laid out strce ta nnd parks nn 1 boulivnrdt, houses and si hools mil publli buildings have risen like iniiRli Today Zlon City numbers n population of 6000 Nor do the Inhabitants ull live In cottages Somo of them have JW00 dwellings. liulldlnR operation lire being" be-ing" pushed nliel niorei houses are ftolnir up all the time A dnien trains n day stop nt the railway station while nlnng tho rulln iy ttnik are fnlght sheds and lumber souls nn 1 brick inrds lle-tween lle-tween the rallroa 1 and the lake and oi-lupslng oi-lupslng three ncre of Rround stnml.s the gieat power-home which supplies the power that runa all the Industries of the cits The first Industry to bo established was laic-mnklnir Diwle bought the plant In England nnd having colleittd JI0O000 In cmh ho nirmiilzul nn assn elation with a capital nf 1003 00) to i un It Iho bulUlngs rover seven nerp ... , In April wns complete 1 u tabernnrk with n sititlng eopiilty of C000 inopie During the summer munths the Siintla) seivlees which have been held In tho Auditorium nt Chicago, will bo trnns. fened to this tabi rn ule and speilal Sunday exiurslnn trains will run fimn Chicago to aeiiimmodato tho ciowds of worshipers Theio aro tempoiaij school buildings and one costing $M ooi) Is now bilng erected The eedlego Is yet domlclleil III Chicago, but will be removed to 5lon as soon as sultnbk building em bo put up The Nilut nre nlso plannlnr foi a Brest textile In-liiMli In-liiMli for tho mnntitacturo of lotion and wnoh n e loth Dowlo allows Zlon City lo bo oigan Ised lis a munlclpnlltv and lets tho pen iilo elect a Mayot' This wns neiessarj n nrilur to ret a ch irte i from the Slain of Illinois Hut both Maoi and rail-nlclpallts rail-nlclpallts aio under Dowlas abtoluto lontiol |
