MR DOWIE IN AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8149, 21 April 1887, Page 6

MR DOWIE IN AUCKLAND.

[By Telegraph.] [from our own correspondent.] AUCKLAND, April 20. Something approaching a scene occurred during the progress of the Rev Mr Dowio’s lecture in the Choral Hall on Monday evening. Tbe speaker was referring to probable results that were to lead to the restoration to health of the sick inour hospitals. “ What,” he asked, “ would become of the d actors ? They might go and dig gum. It would be better for them to dig "gum than to be digging into the people’s pockets in the way they are doing. He believed there were many good men in the medical profession, but it must be one of the most miserable professions a man could be in. But God would bless the doctors, who were gradually coming to see him.” He proceeded to relate the case of one doctor in Christchurch who brought a little girl to him, named Elsie Ferguson, after he had failed to do anything for her. A gentleman rose in the body of tbe ball, and asked to be furnished with the name of the doctorMr Dowie to give it, and denounced his questioner as a blasphemous infidel who had been travelling in the Tarawera with him. “ God have mercy on The gentleman in the body of the Hall repeated his request for the name. Again it was refused, and he asserted that the lecturer was a fraud. Another gentleman, sitting in a front seat, called out that he knew the girl Elsie Ferguson, and Mr Dowie expressed his gratitude that there was a dear brother present who was acquainted with her. He could give 4 ’that man” tbe name of the doctor, but for his impudence he would not. The gentleman again rose and denounced the lecturer as a liar. Mr Dowie ordered him to he quiet, or he would be put out. The devil, he said, always brought some people to interrupt their meetings. Than was the kind of thing that happened at Invercargill, and a great fuss was made about it. The gentleman was then persuaded to leave the building. Mr Dowie then prayed for him, and subsequently said he was sorry to see old men with gray hairs blaspheming God as this man did.