Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — DOWIE TO INVADE NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

DOWIE TO INVADE NEW YORK.

Holt of 3,000 Zion Workers to He Led Eastward by ‘‘Elijah II.” John Alexander Dowie is about to lead a restoration army in a religious crusade against New York. A following of “the faithful” 3,000 strong has been recruited and when the trumpet is sounded by "Elijah II” tho Zionites will take up the march in the quest of 100,000 convert*. The now movement is the most extensive planned by the Zion leader. It calls for the establishment of a Elon City in the East similar to the settlement near Waukegan. Envoys have been in New York for months laboriously planning the campaign and word has been received by Dowie that an option had been obtained on Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Music Hall and that all was in readiness for the exodus from Chicago. The restoration host has been gathered from members of the church in Chicago and it is to be re-enforced by the Zion ■'seventies.” phalanxes of Dowieites that are closely connected with the colony. The surpliced choir, the robes, the lich vestments and the other insignia of the prophet are ready for the movement. "One hundred thousand souls” will be the rallying cry of the crusade, for Dowie has fixed that ns the minimum of conversions. Daily meetings are to be held by the members of the cult until the whole of New York is brought under the spell of a revival. The fire is to be directed against every class, curbstone services being counted on as the most potent method of spreading the tenets of Dowieism.