Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — An Editor at Zion City. [ARTICLE]

An Editor at Zion City.

Editor Simons, of the Montioello Democrat, visited Dr. Dowie’s Zion City recently and sat dcring a three hours service in the midst of the worshipers of the modern Elijah. The editor was Impressed with the apparent earnestness of the Dowie oonverts but is unable to see how intelligent people can accept the Dowie belief after listening to his expressions. He quotes from Dowie what he himself heard, and among the statements are the following: “The devil seeks to kill me. The secret society devils seek it.” “No man shall be in Zion who uses liquor, tobacco or that damning, cursed flesh of the swine.” ‘‘No man shall stay in Zion who sells that slimy scavenger of the sea, the dirty, stinking oyster.” “The doctors and newspaper men are a pack of hypocrites.” “The ministers are against aid. Caa it be that the ministers know that I am a messenger of God? They do know it but are afraid to own it. Their churches would go to pieoes like a house of cards.” “The people thought they knew all about Christ, they thought they knew all about John the Baptist, and you think you know all about me, but you don’t.” “When Igo that is a signal for the great and terrible day of the Lord. My mission lasts up the day of God’s terrible vengence.”