Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — PEOPLE SPURN DOWIE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE SPURN DOWIE.

“Elijah” Knrase.l When Multitude Leaves Hl* Service lit New York. Dowie's invasion of New York, judging by “Elijah’s” reception at Madison Square Garden, has been a failure. Half of the audience that filled the big hall

scrambled for the doors before the service was well begun.- Dowie, on the platform, in his white robes, surrounded by tlie Zion choir similarly garbed, pleaded, stormed and wept in an effort to hold the people, but in vain. He appealed to the police to lock the doors and keep the crowd in, but the only response made by an inspector was: “There’s no law to make people stay where they don’t 'want. This Isn’t Zion. This is New York.” Young women Dowleites begged the crowds to go back and list eh to the healer, but nobody yielded. “It doesn’t take much to stir up Chicngo,” said one man, who did not stay long, “if this man could make any impression there.” “Bluff,” “Faker” and “Pious fraud” were among tjje comments of the outgoing crowd. The guard outside on the avenue were disappointed. They had great hopes of New York when the crowd was pouring in before the services began. Dowie’s elaborate program was interrupted by the coming and going of people, to his great annoyance.