Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1899 — Denounced the Dowie Lunacy. [ARTICLE]

Denounced the Dowie Lunacy.

What is considered the most important action of the Logansport Presbytery during its meeting here last week, was the declaration of the Pregbytery in the matter of the defection of one of its oldest members, and concerning the movement conducted by that monumental faker, Dr. Dowie, of Chicago. The action of the Presbytery and the occasion which made it necessary, are found in the following letter from Mr. Jones, and the appending report of the Committee on Credentials. Irvington, Marion County, Ind., Sept. 5,1899. To the Moderator and Members of the Logansport Presbytery: Dear Brethren: —Are the rules

of your body sufficiently elastic to allow you to drop my name from your roll without a letter of dismission or the formalities of a trial? It is with much regret that I ask you to dissolve ties that have existed for more than half a century, but, on the whole, I hope you will see your way to do so without extended discussion. I have quite a number of reasons for this request, but will only say that Christ is more luminous and precious to me than ever before and I find the tokens of His presence and power chiefly in movements outside the great church organizations- Please address! Rev. A. Jones. On this communication the Committee on Credentials reported as follows: In response to this communication and in view of the fact, as the Presbytery is creditably informed, that Mr. Jones has been for some time and is now in affiliation with the Christian Catholic church, commonly known as the Dr. Dowie or Divine. Healing movement of Chicago, therefore in accordance with the spirit of Chapter J, Sec. 53, of the Book of Discipline, the the stated clerk be instructed to erase the name of Rev. Amos Jones from the roll of Presbytery, though we might proceed further and depose him from the ministry. In taking this mildest form of acton upon, the offense of Mr. Jones in joining a denomination deemed heretical, Presbytery feels it incumbent upon itself to bear most emphatic testimony against vagaries es such movements as that in which Mr. Jones has taken part, and must repord, as it now does, its most emphatic protest against his statement about finding “the tokens of Christ’s presence and power chiefly in movements outside the great church organizations.”