Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 64
68 i. Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. The New York Times. . NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1903. -SIXTEEN, PÅGES. 1 in, the unsuccessful gehems under ] MORE POSTAL upang GIFT Ïis not qubject to profequllop 47 the desarial y pug, a spuma namus, unnapa i docicued cal 1. "ELIJAH" OVERAWED. BY ANGRY MULTITUDE וי up and left the bullding noisily, and outside gave the college yell, ending with Dowle,. . . Dowle, Dowle. Those boys are young yet," said Dowle, and their brains are in their feet. Now let the decent people sit still and let the. Indecent ones go but". Then Dowle launched into a tirade against the physicians whom he said were mDefiance Gone, He Abruptly Closes nostors and tools and many more people. Services in Garden. . . Record-Breaking Throng, In Resentful. Mood, Sweeps Away Police and Makes. Demonstration Against "Prophet. "" sons, got up and went out. || ! |. Then the prophet called upon eight of his followers to testify to their heaving heen healed of cancer, and they obeyed. |||||At the end of this service there was some busy elsewhere to be present, and there |laying on of hands but Dowle was too were no cures. . The strain of the campaign yesterday was beginning to tell heavily upon Dowie's followers, and forty-three were reported ill. . It was said yesterday that a special train of nine cars will leave the city to-morrow for Zlon City taking back 400 members of. Restoration Host, including the sick and the exhausted. . . When the members of the crusade showed up at the Garden yesterday morning they and halling step, showing the fatigue and presented a pitiful sight with drawn faces privation they have endured within the last few days. There are in the host many women more than sixty years old, and. Facing a gathering of fully 15,000 perincluding 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 Zlon Restoration Host, heeded a quiet suggestion made to him by the police and brought last night's meet-there are also many little children who are ing 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. on the verge of collapsel. Health Commissioner Lederle and Police. Commissioner Groene paid a visit to the. Garden yesterday and found that there were several hundred Zionites sleeping hightly in a number of small rooms connected with the Garden, and that the cots were so crowded that. Ventilation was Impossible The Health, Commissioner deand see to it that only a sufficient number to maintain sanitary precautions be allowed to sleep in each room. . L. The great gathering was full of pent-up. excitement and hostility from the very start, and although there were 700 police-talled two inspectors to measure the rooms men on the acene, it soon became apparent that a demonstration of extraordinary magnitude would follow any, attempt to hold the meeting. Even before the services began there were riotous incidents, in which several men were ejected from the buildIng. Several personal encounters took place between Zion Guards and spectators in various parts of the vast amphitheatre. . It is doubtful if ever th the history of the Garden there has been a gathering of such magnitude as was inside and outside of the building last night. Although the services do not begin in the evening until 7:80 o'clock, last night's crowd began to gather by o'clock, and by 6 there was a solid line four deep lending from the Madison Avenue entrance around into Twentysixth Street, to Fourth Avenue. . Six hundred policemen were on hand at that early hour under command of Inspector. Walsh, and by half-past 6 o'clock a hundred more reserves from the various contiguous precincts were called into service. . It was found impossible to hold the vast crowd in line any longer, and the doors of the Garden were thrown open at 6:30 'anal. CONVERT FOR DOWIE. . New Hampshire Women Bella Her Farm and Sands $1,400;to Elijah HI. | GILFORD, N. Ouf 21. Mrs. Evange"" line Jewett of this town, a convert to the doctrines of John, Alexander Dowie, has sold her farm here for $1,500, and of the proceeds has sent $1,100 to powie. Mrs. Jewett says she believes in Dowle, and declares. . God showed me that it was best to dispose of the farm and send the money,. It was a hard thing to do, as it was the homestead, but I am confident that I have done right. " Mrs Jewett is considering a plan for joining the Dowle community. . TRUST FUNDS DISAPPEAR. . Death of Robert F. Wilkinson Brings. Strange Revelations. . Timan