ZION CITY CLOSED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 40, 16 February 1907, Page 2

ZION CITY CLOSED.

THE NEW "APOSTLE" TO FOUND

ANOTHER ZION

Zion City is to be abandoned. The little community which was built up by John Alexander Dowie, the "first Apostle," after years of strenuous effort, will shortly be dispersed for ever, and Overseer Voliva, the man who deposed the prophet, like a new Moses, will lead the chosen forth from ■the discredited gates to found a new Zion under more favourable auspices, where the work of regeneration of the world may be commenced anew.

The new Zion into which no unworthy member shall be allowed to creep on any pretext whatever, will form the nucleus of a most energetic crusade against the wickedness of the .world, and that of Chicago in particular, a city where there is more devil to the square inch than in any other' place in the wide world." Mr Voliva declared that with twenty-five chosen men he will turn Chicago inside out inside of six months.

Autocratic Socialism is to be the strange creed of the new city. No more debt, no more house rent, no more holding of land or property by individuals, but a sublime condition of brotherly love and primitive Christianity is to prevail. *• At the same time Mr Voliva is to be supreme lord and master, whose will shall b© unquestioned in every matter, spiritual and carnal. Whosoever disobeys shall be excommunicated, so the fiat runs. The power is based on the power declared by him to have been conferred on him by God Almighty.