Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — TRIUMVIRATE RULE IN ZION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRIUMVIRATE RULE IN ZION.

Three Men Are to Control While Dowle Recnperat es. John Alexander Dowie has abdicated. The patriarchal founder and First Apostle of the Christian Catholic church in Zion transferred the reins of power Sunday to a triumvirate composed of' trust-

ed church officials. In an affecting message to his people at Zion City, be bads them “good-by for n little while.” He will leave shortly on a four months’ search for health in the smiling islands of the Caribbean sea. The announcement of Dr. Dowie's appointment of the triumvirate and his intended flight from the rigors of a northern winter was made at the afternoon service in Shiloh tabernacle by Overseer Speicher. The First Apostle was not present. He waa confined to his home, Shiloh house, by the attack of bronchitis which followed the stroke o’ paralysis from which he only recently i covered.

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWI[?].