Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 65
Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. NEW YORK TIMES, October 21, 1903 "Carrie Nation Halts Abuse from 'Elijah'. He Stops Shouting 'Liar' to be Polite to the Smasher. Great Audience Hisses the Torrent of Vilification That 'Prophet' Pours Out on Preachers and Press. The following is an excerpt of the article: "Amid a storm of hisses, yells, catcalls, and hooting, John Alexander Dowie, 'Elijah III,' gave another of his free shows in Madison Square. Garden last night before an audience of 6,000 New. Yorkers, three-fourths of whom left the hall long before the so-called services were ended. The remainder stayed with the hope of seeing a fight of some sort. Confusion and excitement reigned throughout the evening, despite the fact that for the first time since the 'Restoration Host' has come to town the police were scattered throughout the inside of the building in anticipation of trouble. 69 i. In furnishing amusement for the crowd, Dowie share the first place with Carrie Nation, who several times tried to interrupt the speaker, and was hustled about in lively fashion by the guards of the 'prophet. ' The salon smasher finally left the building, followed by half the remaining audience. . In the body of the hall three rousing cheers and a tiger were given for her while the Doxology was being sung . . NEW YORK TIMES, October 22, 1903 66 'Elijah' Overawed By Angry Multitude". Defiance Gone, He Abruptly Closes Services in Garden. Record-Breaking Throng, in Resentful Mood, Sweeps Away Police and Makes Demonstration. Against 'Prophet'. The following is an excerpt of the article: "Facing a gathering of fully 13,000 persons, including 600 Columbia University students, and with a throng estimated at fully 10,000 surging about the doors of Madison Square Garden, John. Alexander Dowie, leader of the Zion Restoration. The great gathering was full of pent-up excitement and hostility from the very start, and although there were 700 policemen on the scene, it soon became apparent that a demonstration of extraordinary magnitude would follow any attempt to hold the meeting. Even before the services. Host, heeded a quiet suggestion made to him by began there were riotous incidents, in which the police and brought last night's meeting to an abrupt close without having delivered his sermon and without having uttered any of his characteristic tirades, to hear which the enormous crowds had assembled. several men were ejected from the building. . Several personal encounters took place between. Zion Guards and spectators in various parts of the cast amphitheatre. . . 55