Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 70
74. Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. DOWIE'S TRIP TO NEW YORK. PREPARATION DETAILS FOR THE NEW YORK SHOW AS DESCRIBED. BY VARIOUS AUTHORS:. Arthur Newcomb writes in his book, Dowie, Anointed of the Lord, as follows: << "Zion Printing and publishing House, for which a building had been put up a few hundred feet east of the railroad station, began the printing of a million colored cards of Holman Hunt's. Christ Knocking at the Door". The reverse bore an invitation to the meetings in Madison Square. Garden, in a reproduction of Dr. Dowie's handwriting. These were for distribution in New. York by Zion Restoration Host. . . . All summer long members of Zion Restoration Host throughout the world were being urged to register for the New York visitation and begin payment of their tickets. So great was the advertising value of this migration that Dr. Dowie was able to wheedle and bully out of railroad companies a roundtrip fare of $15 for each person" (p. 243). . Rolvix Harlan in his dissertation on Dowie, published in 1906, writes: "Mr. Dowie says: I will give you an illustration: These three thousand of Zion. Restoration Hosts were trained very carefully for the 1903 visitation. I had a map of New York made as large as the wall of this room and I hung it at Shiloh Tabernacle at the Zion City, and marked upon railroads and streets, and car lines of the city of New York, including Brooklyn. Then we trained our people in seventies. They had covered Chicago eight times in one year, visiting almost every house in it eight times. So we trained them by calling upon a captain of a ten and asking him how he would reach and work a certain district. Then he would explain how would he reach a district from our Headquarters in Madison. Square Garden. . . . The consequences was that in fourteen days, these three thousand, and perhaps a thousand more that joined them in New York, visited every house, business place, every ship and every section of New York, and delivered 4,200,000 little printed messages with kind words given by Christ Peace be to this house. " (p. 103-104)