ZION CITY ECHO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 14

ZION CITY ECHO.

DOWIE'S WIDOW DIES, FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS. Mrs. Jane Dowie, widow of John Alexander Dowie, founder of Zion City and the Christian Apostolic Church, died in March at the home of Mrs. John Innes in Zion City, Illinois, where she had lived since she was evicted a month previously from Shiloh House, the mansion erected by her husband. After the death of her husband in 1907 and the rise to leadership in the church he founded of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Mrs. Dowie moved away from Zion City. She returned three years ago with her eon, the Rev. A. J. Gladstone Dowie, an Episcopal minister, and Shiloh House. She had announced an intention of winning members of the Voliva Church away from his dominance, but failed in the

attempt. This recalled the quarrel between Dowie and Voliva in 1900, which split the religious colony into two factions. Mrs. Dowie was born in Australia, and was a first cousin of her husband. They went to the United States late in the nineteenth century and to Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair. Dowie established a church there and later preached to huge crowds in the Auditorium. He osganised the religious colony at Zion City in 1596. Mrs. Dowie, who had been an active assistant of her evangelist husband throughout his career, was made an overseer of the newly organised Christian Apostolic Church, in charge of women's activities. In 1905 she accompanied her husband to London 011 a speaking tour. When they returned Voliva had assumed control of the Zion City colony. After their return to Zion, Mrs. Dowie and her son suffered financial reverses and recently were ujiable to keep up payments 011 the mortgage against their home. Foreclosure proceedings wcvj started, and they were forced out. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Dowie suffered a stroke.