THE FALLEN PROPHET.

Evening Star, Issue 13013, 7 January 1907, Page 3

THE FALLEN PROPHET.

REVILES WIFE AND SON. With parting shots at His enemies, fatherly advice to his followers, and bitter; deunciation of his wife and son, John Alexander Dowie yesterday (September 24) bade farewell to his people at Zion City. Tuesday of next week he promises to start for Mexico. He promised to return early next summer strong and well, and to build a house, on Mount Carmet for Jesus, whose early return to earth to rule for a thousand years, first at Zion ; City and then at Jerusalem, he predicted. His listeners thronged erery room, and 'filled the stairways in Shiloh house. Unable to stand unsupported, his-features the hue of death, and his small, white hands tremblings ■Dowie, clad in his gorgeous apostolic robes, was borne in the'arms of two stalwart negroes from his room to the platform in the. bay window. During his talk of half an hour, howover, his voice rose at times to something of its old-time resonance. - "It may be possible," said Bowie, " that the first apostle is looking into the faces of his people for tho last time, but, I do not. think so. When I was in Mexico and learned of the treachery hatched in Zion City—that the wife whom I had taken had maligned me, that my son had cut down my flag and turned the Zion guards against me, and! that the men whom I had trusted and honored had betrayed me—l. wanted to die, but God willed otherwise. I am not a sick man. My disease is a broken heart. For rventy-five years I lived with my wife a broken-hearted man. Her private life was a shame. She abused me every day. She told me I had less sense than my clogs. I forgave her a thousand times. I do not know that I shall ever see her again. The rest of my life'l shall live only for the kingdom of God. I have been asked whether I could forgive my wife. Yes, I forgive. But can I restore her? No. The banker- forgives the cashier who ha; robbed him, but he does not again give him the key to the strong box." " Get all you can honestly. Save all you can get and" give all you can," was Dowie's precept to his auditors after he had made an appeal for financial help, to which all pledged assistance. Then he had those present repeat the precept in chorus. After the consecration prayer, in which God was asked for victory ill the appeal from Judge Landis's decision, he began the hymn ' God be with vou till wo all meet again,' in which the sobbing women and men joined. Then as he was being carried up the stairs he gave the parting " Peace be with you." At the meeting in the Tabernacle Overseer Volivia warned the people against a former Methodist minister named Parsham, from Kansas, who is in Zion City proselyting in tho name of the Apostolic Faith sect.—Chicago ' Herald.'