Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — TO BUILD A MODERN ZION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO BUILD A MODERN ZION.

Great ReUsbMta City Near Chic*** Where AU WHI Be Parc. A great religious city, where the commerce of the world will center a*4 where there will be no wickedness. will, if the present plans of, the promoters are carried out,%mon be built up in the suburbs of Chicago. The leaders of the peculiar sect who are to be founders of the new Zion are so firm in their belief that destruction is soon to overtake Chicago because of the wickedness, of its inhabitants that they have bought. or have an option on. <*.«!«» acres of land near Waukegan, a suburb of Chicago. on the lake shore, and here the future city, where ail is to be pure and good. is to rise. John Alexander Dvwie and his wife

are the leading pnmtoters. Ground is to be broken for a temple eariy iu May. with most impressive ceremonies. The ill are to he healed. Dowie declares, and the world is to receive its first revelation of what a mod* ru Zion is to be. Later, building of two factories, the industrial beginnings of the city, is tn begin. One is to be for the making of shoes, and the other is to be a lare factory. Next on the program will be the laying of the corner stone for the Temide

of Zion, aud then there are to he portents in the heavens, which may be read by all men except those enclosed in the Chicago streets. letter Dowie is to make a triumphal tour to- the Holy I-aud. On the lake front will he situated 32«» acres of the tract, and there Itowie promises the commerce of the world is to be centered. Dowie. who rails himself general overseer of the Christian Catholic Church, was born iu Scotland about sixty-six years ago. He was educated for the ministry in the Edinburgh Seminary. He appeared in Australia about' eighteen years ago and start*d a grocery store. He was elected to the Common Council

of Melbourne and then opened a tahernade. Becoming violent in bis language against the Council he was giveu thirty days to leave, and came to San Francisco, where he o|*encd a church. Going to Chicago the year before the World's Fair, he started a tcut service on what later became the Midway Plaisance. He is now the lessee of a church with a seating capacity of 3,309. and also of a hall where he has a printing establishment, with a perfecting press, three duplex presses aud mauy job presses, 118 stands and a chapel of sixty union print era. The building is also the home of the Zion Bank, a wealthy institution, and the Ziou City Ijsnd and Investment Association.

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF ZION CITY.

MRS. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.