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Show Predicts Second j Coming of Christ Alexander Dowie's Successor In Zlon City, III., hues Remarkable Document with Recorder. Tho coming of Jesus Christ to the world In 11(12 for the second time to Jive among the children of men Is j predicted In u icimirknble document I tiled with tho county recorder by II. L. Ilitrnctte, successor to Alexander Dowle, and by .John Taylor, his chief apostle. Accompanying tl'- unique announcement, announ-cement, which was mailed from Zlon City, Lako'eountv, 111., was the $2 filing fee required to make the document docu-ment one of record. According to this declaration of the Dowlcltcs, Jesus first will appear to otght chosen men and later will reveal re-veal himself to the world. The document docu-ment follows: "Ho It known unto nil Israel, nnd unto .Judnh, and unto nil the world: "Ileforo the close of the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twelve (A. I). 1012) .lesuH, tho Christ, the Son of God, who was conceived of tho Holy Spirit nnd born of a virgin, who was crucified and was raised from the tomb, and for nearly nineteen centuries centur-ies hns been our beloved advocate at the right hand of Ood. our Father In heaven, will come forth from the eter mil throne, onco again to teach and prench tho gospel of healing, holy living, liv-ing, nnd Hiilvntlon to every creature, nnd to heal the sick of every (IIsciibo and every affliction. "Jesus' will appear In bodily form flist to eight mon. one a high priest whom Ood will ordain for the occasion, occas-ion, and seven men to whom ho will have committed the Important iirellm limry work In the restoration of Judith Ju-dith and Israel. "Forty-five days later the Messiah of Isreal shall be declared unto the world by the high rlesl chosen of God, even as the Christ was declared ' unto Israel by John the Ilnptlst, at the Jordan, nearly nineteen hundred years ago. "Tho Christ will be revealed In tho city of Zlon, built by God's foretold KHJnh as a iwcparatlon of tho way, unto nil who await his second coming. com-ing. Ken ns It Is written: "I will remove re-move tho iniquity of that land In on is day," so the people of Zlon who were prepared of Ood to receive tho Christ, nnd who shall romaln truo to tho i holy covenant In these 2,300 days of sifting, shall behold their city rise I again In a now glory of righteousness and prosperity. Tho power of tho Assyrian As-syrian shall come, to nought at tho , manifestation of God's word; in, that day shall tho false shepherds bo cut off, and ye shall Invito every man his neighbor under the vine and under the i fig taee "In witness whereof we havo here- i unto set our hands nnd seals this first I day of August. A. I)., 1909. J -H. L. IIUUNKTTB, I "JOHN TAYI.OU." |