Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 79
Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. PRESS COVERAGE OF HAZRAT AHMAD'S SUCCESS. IN THE PRAYER DUEL AFTER DOWIE'S DEATH. CHICAGO EVENING AMERICAN, March 9, 1907 "Dowie Dies Unforgiving Wife, Son and Father”. Year By Year Story of Amazing Reversals in the Life of Dowie "When John Alexander Dowie passed away, death ended the most spectacular and remarkable career that modern times have known. Gigantic successes and tragic failures punctuated his life. . Here are some of the remarkable works and reversals that marked Dowie's career:. He built a creed, he was excommunicated. . He built a city; he was exiled from it. 83. He was amassed a fortune of millions; he was reduced to virtual poverty. . He elevated Voliva to great power: Voliva ruined him. . He drew about him thousands who worshiped him: he died deserted by all save a handful of the faithful. ". New York Times, Sunday, March 10, 1907. Dowie dies in the city he founded. Neither wife nor son, whom he had repulsed, was at his bedside. Sings Hymns as end nears. Voliva and the Receiver Announce that his Death will not affect the Future of Zion. Chicago, March 9. - John Alexander Dowie died at 7:40 o'clock this morning at his residence,. Shiloh House, in Zion City. The founder of the. Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, a sect that had its followers in every quarter of the globe, passes away peacefully after a period of unconsciousness. . The end was not unexpected. For hours the old leader, deserted by all except a few faithful followers, had been sinking slowly. Paralysis and a complication of dropsy and other maladies. caused death. No relative was with him at the last. . Repulsed when they made a final effort to see him three months ago, neither his wife Jane nor his son. Gladstone was at his bedside when the end came. . Mrs Dowie and her son arrived late tonight from Ben McDhul, their home in Michigan, which is practically all that remains of the wealth once controlled by Dowie, estimated to have been millions. . Soon after Dowie's death Shiloh House with its furnishings was seized by Receiver John C. . Hartley, in the name of the United States Court, for the benefit of the creditors of Zion City. The house is valued at $50,000 and the furnishings at $80,000. A custodian is now in charge of the rooms where the body of Dowie lies in state. . The future of Zion City, it was declared by. General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Dowie's successor as head of the church, will not be affected by the death of the founder. Receiver. Hartley made the same announcement. parts of hymns were murmured from time to time by the lips of the dying man, whose pallid face and shrunken and emaciated form told plainly of the long and unsuccessful fight with disease. . Dowie, who was just 60 years old, had crowded in his eventful life the experience of a century and apparently the full measure of the years had descended on him. . . .