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Show Dowie, the Fallen Elijah! Intensely Interesting Article Relating to the Downfall of the Prophet Glut- j tony is Responsible. "Physical Culture," that splendid magazine of which the famed Itcrnarr McFaddcn Is responsible, presents In the most recent Issue an article dealing deal-ing with the downfall of Alexander Dowie, the Klijah who led Ion to a more wonderful piospcrity in a shorter short-er time than any other religious or temporal leader ever led nnv people. That article, treating Howie's downfall down-fall from a lew point different from that of most writers, seems interest-Inn interest-Inn enough to us to warrant It's republication re-publication here. The writer Is one who knew Howie well, and the Information Infor-mation contained may be accepted as truth, even though any should fall to agice In Ihe deductions made. The article reads: "John Alex. Howie has failed rollgl-ously rollgl-ously and financially. More, he has failed physically. How are the mighty fallen! Not jet sixty years of age, coining of the sturdy Scottish race, possessed of asplendid phjsical build, of what snould have been an enduring constitution and with every condition In his favor, he has yet made a total failure of himself physclally and In other ways Had Howie not lost health of body and consequently vigor of mind, no man, or conspiracy of men, could have wrested from his control the religious and mercantile leadership of Ion. Hecausc of this and through the mega phone of physical culture 1 cry to the whole work1! l,lf jou want to make shipwreck of both religion and business, busi-ness, be careless of your body or i it In It through self-indulgence." Hut let mo give the history of Howie's How-ie's downfall as 1 have for several years noted It, slowly but surely coming. I When Howie landed In San Francisco In 1K8H he had $7r.oo, but no enlarged I abdomen. He was strong, temperate I in all things, and an indefatigable j worker. Ills Divine Healing propa- ganda prospered and contributions poured In Still he worked and travelled travel-led until IMi:i when he set up his head-' head-' quarters in Chicago. With foice and effectiveness he preached against Intoxicants, In-toxicants, tobacco, swine's llcsh, drugs, , la.luess and gluttony. Especially did ho smite the big Sunday dinner, say- ln', with more truth than polish: l "Women, don't slave over the cook 1 stove all day Sunday Just so your husbands hus-bands can spend the day striding their j ungodly guts." I I have never known Dr. Howie to j indulge In any of the unclean foods ro publicly condemned or to touch to- bacco, drugs or alcoholics ' 20 Bath Rooms Once. Ho believed In bathing. In Shlloh I House, his oillelal residence at Ion city, ho had a bath-room on every Hoot, with long tub sit, and shower In each. Himself, wife, sou and (laugher (laugh-er each had a private bath-room, so tlrat in the house were- facilities for, at least, twenty persons bathing at one time. ItlghL hero let the writer say that ho Is with Mr. Macfaddcn In his editorial editor-ial -on "Dowlo and Heroes" In June Physical Culture. 1 have absolutely no sympathy with tlroso who took advantage ad-vantage of Dowlo's Illness and absence to attempt his ruin. The man wrought his own ruin through three sins against physical culture, namely, muscular Inactivity, fear of fresh ah arid over eating. Became Lazy. Dow io was physically la.y. Holding up his gold pen ono day he said to me: "I never handle anything heavier than my pen." It was true. Not even the book lie Has reading would ho handle ITrfrr ' 'H' iHMIluli Mmmiinni.il ii AH through hi- library audoillcesi were reading stands and tests' onl which the book or maga.lne lay while he perused it. Although his resident c and olllcc arc but two blocks apart, I have known him to walk between them only twice in four years. Kven In shaking hands he merely presented his lingers. The other fellow did the shaking. Often "I have heard him object to the heartiness of his friends' handshakes. It was too much for his lllbby muscles. Atone period, he did ; get a little exercise walking about the pulpit platform while preaching. Hut later and at nearly all of his other meetings, he sat in a cushioned chair. As the years went by, he still further eliminated every muscular movement until ho was practically without any natural exercise. He was dressed and undressed by valets, assisted In and out of his carriage by footmen and waited on by nimble pages. It Is an immutable law of God and Nature that the organs which are left unused will gradually weaken and llnally lose all power of action. So, a year ago, at the close of a long meet-! lug, Dr. Howie was stricken by pa-, ralysis along the right side from brain to lingers and toes. He lay unconscl-1 oris for several hours, I hen slowly regained re-gained his senscs.and a little strength, j A few weeks later, another and more' severe stroke fell upon him, leaving him utterly helpless to this hour. Insulted Nature had punished her in-suiter in-suiter Didn't Like Air. Howie, moreover, had a great fear of fresh a'lr especially draughs. Brought up In the scml-lroplcal climate cli-mate of Australia, he dreaded the vigorous bree.es that came tearing across' Lake Michigan's waves from the straits of Mackinaw. So he slitit out the air from his home, from his olllces and from the big Tabernacle, where he often kept (1,000 of us Imprisoned Im-prisoned In the vilest atmosphere. Time after time, I have seen with the naked eye the Impurities tloallng in the air of the Tabernacle, and how dellclously sweet the open alrsmelt on getting outside! Sometimes Sam Nelson, the Janitor, would listen to our entreaties and give us some ventilation. venti-lation. In a few minutes Howie would feel the air on his sensitive bald head and shout out: "Sam, shut the doois and windows! do you want to kill me with draughts?" On one occasion he told me that while conducting a crowded house-meeting house-meeting with Mrs. Howie, she complained com-plained to him of poor ventilation. He paid no heed to her until she fainted. Then he permitted a window to be opened and boasted that he could en-duie en-duie bad air longer than any man or woman he knew Windows Never Opened. Two years ago Mrs. Howie took sick and was nursed by a woman of twenty years hospital training. When this nurse took charge of the case she was amazed to llnd no window In Shlloh House that she could open. Hverr the bedrooms wcie separated from bathrooms bath-rooms only by an arched alcove with no means of ventilation to the outside, although each bathroom contained ti toilet. So the nurse secured the services ser-vices of a carpenter who fixed the windows, win-dows, Dowlo being away at the time! Hut again the law of Nature exacted Its penalty. Continually breathing bad air brought Dowie attack after attack of bronchitis, heart weakness and other maladies which culminated culminat-ed ( In the dreaded dropsy that never lets go. Valvular dlscato of the heart has long ago set In. Time after time, his legs lmo swelled until thoy burst to discontinued dis-continued orr Pago 0.) tfv.jpfjjfc$iitt3fcCJBfcLKmMi I Dovrte, the Fallen. I (Coiitlniifcl from Page-'.) i charge the dropsical water Sores hac appeared for which there seems no healing One of his personal attendants attend-ants Informs me that his condition Is so loathsome that he can get no white man to wait on him Hoth hlsfcmalc nurses Have up the case long ago Dowir a Glutton. Now about thu third hygienic sin gluttony Of the eight people who composed Duwle's "around the world 'visitation pirty" In loot .1. (5. Etcell wastheonlv one who completed the clicult of the globe without sea or I other sickness. On the ocean, Dow to ato ravenously, but l'wcll tile only what his body rcciihcd and then he stopped. Heine; a M'KCtsirltm. he lived chlelly on grain, nuts, fruits and legumes. le-gumes. Hut of him. Dowle said, "I don't like to have Kxcell to dinner i wltli me. He don't eat. lie only picks hereand there " Yet Kcell N !n biK man keeps hliiiielf In llnecondl-'lion, llnecondl-'lion, and doc-, a lot of wearisome work I An onlarKert abdomeii is a token or k'lnttoni, and Dowle'h;iew larger and lart-er At last he had specl.ill) designed de-signed pie.ielilin; lobes made, which jpartlt hid tlil-, iiiislchtl) defoimltv Ilis meal-, weie often from seven to ten i-iiirses unci frequently the family would lemaiii at the table two or I three hours at a time. Thlrtj pounds uf the choicest chocolate cieams were ordered for the famlli at a time. l.er tiling else was In proportion Up till lat fall, the man who dally visited visit-ed the fresh food maikcts of Chicago to purchase supplies for the Ion City store-, never dated takehls train until un-til furnished with a list of the foods wanted by Dowie the next claj On a tiain I sat beside the buyer, who Miowcd mo a 1st, saying, '"J'hl-. makes me sick. These people (Dowie's)are making gods of their bellies" There was nothing bad on the INt, but so many things of the most expensive va-iletlei. va-iletlei. Yet so much overeating at home was not enough Dowic had a private kitchen and pantry lilted up In the administration building behind his olllces and a m.Ud In constant attention at-tention to serve him with lunches at any hour of the day or night,. An Awful Drinker. One more example of this fatal sin Is over-eating A few weeks ago, ho sat on a pile of cushions to lake part in a brief meeting In his home While so doing he drank three quails of egg-nog and this In addition to regular meals for a sick man who takes no exercise. Think of It! As to his drinking habits. I have seen him drink four large tumblefulls! of bw Iss w hie In one meeting last sum- ( mer. Ills attendant counted 20 to 2.i glasses whic.li he indulged in buiwecn two meals, and again sadly wiii-.peicd i to me that he had served the Doetot with gingerale, pop,selter vvatei.mllk and plain water In one afternoon Turning away he said "It Is disgusting disgust-ing It should be added that tliej Swisswlnecontalnsasmall pcicentagei of alcohol, built is claimed the the' Doctor did not know this Do I need to add that in a recent I couveisallon that lhad with one of Dow ie's advisory physicians he told me that the Doctor was suilcilng from Itrlght's disease of the kidneys, and that the dropsical swelling weie far up on the body V The last time Dow le attempted at-tempted to conduct a meeting he was catrlcd in b two giant negroes He spoke In a faint weak voire a moment or two and then his head (hopped to one side and ho was aslnep or unconscious uncons-cious Again he tiled loi a inomeni and again his head fell Then he was carried out Pitiful vueekoT a once powerful man, hovering on the brink of dissolution and all because of his breaking the three laws of Nature relating re-lating to food, breathing and exercise. The Inevitable End. What more need be said .lust this. Ileware of piosperlty' II Is hard to bear What mattei now Is it that Dowle had a tiemendous capacity for work'r What avail his splendid physique, phys-ique, his phenomenal memory, his marvelous mar-velous genius for oiganilng and pro-moting.hlsnatuie, pro-moting.hlsnatuie, powerof leadership and winsome manner? What helps now to the world all this when his ovei-lndulgfil body has collapsed and diagged him down to a three-fold defeat de-feat and failure spiritually, financial-ly financial-ly and physically' I'oi another thlity or lorty yeais Dowle might have been a powci In the world, moulding millions to his will, had he not ruined himself by breaking these threo simple laws of life. Young man, young woman, watch your bodies and control them " |