Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — Dowieites Defy All Legal Authority. [ARTICLE]

Dowieites Defy All Legal Authority.

“Deacon” Homer Kressler, our own Ex-Union Central Homer, has reached such a dizzy height in Dowieism, that he is getting to be quoted in the Chioago papers. His latest pronouncement is that it is all foolishness for the Chicago authorities to try to make “Elijah” Dowie take out a hospital license for his prayer foundry, and be 00m pelled to employ physicians. “We will never take out a hospital lioense for this place,” says Deacon Kressler, “nor treat our sick in any other was than by prayer.” Dowie’s success in defying all law and authority heretofore makes him and his followers very confident that they will continue in that same line, hereafter.