Dowie!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3630, 29 March 1906, Page 3

Dowie!

Elijah 11. has come to grief, The wings of the prophet < art broken off short; . there, lsn’l enough left to flap with, let alone to fly. The deacons have assn med control of the declining City, and the portly fraud has retired to the Caribbean Sea to recruit his shattered nerve. For nerve was the whole stock-in-trade of this greatest of modern chorlatans. By liis colossal nerve he was able to impose on the credulous and pose before the incredulous. Nerve kept him in opulence for most of his life. Nerve attracted dupes by the thousand, and if his nerve hadn’t succumbed to the terrific strain in the end, Dowie might have been lording it in Zion yet. But high living and extravagant habits and increasing carelessness made Dowie unpopular even with his dupes, and when he failed to apply his Christian Science to his own over-fed carcase, the Dowie ites grew suspicious, and it was all up with Elijah the Prophet. Dowie is a fine Illustration of the amazing folly of the public and a standing example to humanity. He is the most colossal fraud who ever sold gold bricks to mankind—the greatest humbug iu history.— Christchurch Truth.