Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — Bowie’s Own Daughter a Victim of Dowieism. [ARTICLE]

Bowie’s Own Daughter a Victim of Dowieism.

I Chicago Post. Death has entered the household of John Alexander Dowie as a result of the faith healer’s teaching against the use of medicine. His daughter, Mrs. Samuel Stevenson, wife of the “deacon"’ who came to Chicago last summer from England, where he - was a lace-maker to help the head of Zion introduce the industry in his La'ke oonnty city, passed away while crossing the ocean. |drs. Stevenson had gone to England with her husband, and last week left her father there and started on the return voyage. She was taken with pneumonia on shipboard; but medical attendance was not given her and she died. She was buried at sea. Her husband has arrived in New York and is on his way to Chicago. Deacon. Stevenson and Dowie’s daughter were married at Zion Tabernacle in Chicago last July, and the ceremony was a areat event among, the followers 1 of the “divine healer ”