Mr Bowie, the Faithhealer, in Trouble

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 122, 21 April 1887, Page 3

Mr Bowie, the Faithhealer, in Trouble

(Wanganui Herald's correspondent) . Auckland, April 20. Something approaching a scene occurred during the progress of the Eev. Dowie's lecture in the Choral Hall on Monday evening. The speaker was referring to the probable results if he were to lead to the restoration of the health of the sick in our hospitals. • What he asked would become of the doctors, they might go and dig gum. It would be better for them to dig gum than he digging into people's g>ooketa in the way they are doing. He believed there Were many good W<*» in tha medical profession, but it must be one of the most miserable professions a man could be in, but trod would bios* the doctors . They were gradually coming to see him. Mr Powie proceeded to relate the ease of one doctor in Christchurch. who brought a little girl Elsie i^ergusson. after he had failed to do auything for her. A gentleman rose in tile. te)dy of. the -hall, and asked to be furnished with the name of the doctor. Dowie refused to give it, and denounced his questioner as a blasphemous infidel who had been travelling in the Tarawera with him. " God have mercy on him !" Q,ue«r people were met with when .travelling.- The gentleman in the body of the hall repeated his request for the name, and again it was refused, 'and he asserted that the -lecturer was, a fraud. An•other gentleman sitting in the front seat called put that he knew the girl Fergiisson, and Dowie expressed his gratitude that there was a dear brother present who wad acquainted with her. He could give " that man" the name of the doctor, but, for his impudence, he would not. The gentleman again rose and denounced the lecturer as a liar, and Dowie ordered him to be quiet or he would be put out. The devil, he said, always brought some people to interrupt his meetings. That was the kind of thing that had happened at Invercargill, and a great fuss was made about it. The gentleman was then pursuaded to leave, the building, and Dowie prayed for him, and subsequently said he was sorry to see an old man with grej • hairs blaspheming God as he did.