Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 75
Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, APRIL 2, 1906 "ZION OUSTS DOWIE”. Wife and Even the Unkissed Son Join New Leader church, was elected in his stead. . Chicago, April 1- At a meeting today of 5,000 adherents of the Christian Catholic Church at Zion. City, of which John Alexander Dowie is the founder and first apostle, Dowie's authority was repudiated and Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who for some time has been conducting the affairs of the 79. Mrs. Dowie also repudiated her husband, and their son, Gladstone Dowie, cast his lot with his mother and the new leader, Voliva. NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1906. RECEIVER FOR ZION. Act to Forestall Dowie's Threatened Fight Against Ouster. Chicago, April 4. It was decided today by. Overseer Voliva of Zion City that in view of the intended return of John Alexander Dowie from. Mexico and Dowie's declared intention of making a fight against the action suspending Dowie from office, the present Overseer shall be appointed receiver of the Church of Zion and of all the public properties standing in the name of the Church. . It was also asserted by the officers of Zion. City that if Dowie returns and begins legal action against the present officers of the church, or attempts to oust them, they will cause his arrest and prosecution on the charge of misuse of funds. . Voliva, acting under the power of attorney he holds from Dowie, filed today in the office of the county recorder of Lake county an assignment to. Deacon Alexander Granger of all the annuities and bequests that have been made to Dowie and are still unpaid. . A message was received today by Deacon. Alexander Granger from Dowie, reading as follows:. You are hereby removed from your office as general financial manager and all other offices. I warn you, should you undertake to exercise any authority as financial manager it will be regarded as criminal. . Deacon Granger declared after reading the message that he would pay no attention to it. . Overseer Voliva and other officers of Zion Cit called today on Deacon Wilhite, the newly appointed representative of Dowie, who was named yesterday as Voliva's successor in a message sent by Dowie from Mexico: Deacon. Wilhite was asked to say whether he proposed to act with them, or in behalf of Dowie. He refused to tell them. . He, however, sent a message to Dowie, saying that legal counsel has advised him that Dowie's revocation of Voliva's power of attorney by wire is illegal. . Soon after the return from Zion City, Ill. , today of Deacon W. D. Yeager, of Cincinnati, there was filed a deed for all property of the. Christian Catholic Church of Zion situated in. Cincinnati, transferring it to Alexander Granger, financial agent. The deed was signed by J. Alexander Dowie, by his attorney, Wilbur G. Voliva. The consideration named was $ 1.