Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — “I WILL NEVER DIE!” DECLARED THE “ELIJAH, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“I WILL NEVER DIE!” DECLARED THE “ELIJAH,

John Alexander Dowie, who would uot swear in Judge Tuley’s court at Chicago that he was the second Elijah, loudly proclaimed to his followers on a recent Sunday that as "Elijah restored” he would never die. Speaking of the receivership litigation he said: “We will fight and we will fight until we win. If Zion should be stripped of money to-day, in a week it would be os strong as ever, for there are those who would give up their last dollar. Others have done it.” Dowie, it is said, is about to shake the dust of Chicago from his carriage wheels and go to live in Zion City, Lake County, where taxes are lower. As the preliminary step to his change of residence Dowie has reorganized his church, giving up the old Central Tabernacle in Michigan avenue and establishing fifteen minor tabernacles in different sections of Chicago. "I am tired of this unjust taxation,” shouted Dowie to his followers. "Chi-: cago differentiates between Zion and the other churches of this city, and I will stand it no longer. There is no more reason why Zion is not a church in the legal sense than why the other denominations are so classed. I will not have it taxed to fall the coffers of the county when they go free.”

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.