Discredited Dowie.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8199, 28 May 1906, Page 5

Discredited Dowie.

A Comprehensive Resolution. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Per Press Association. Received May 28, at 10.22 a.m. MELBOURNE. This Day. A meeting was held in Zion Hall last night, at which the Rev. J. S. McCullagh moved the following resolution :-r----"Whereas John Alexander Dowie, of Zion City 3 has been found guilty of the violation of every one of the ten commandments, and whereas the overseers of Zion City have found him guilty of hypocrisy, criminal extravagance, embezzlement, misrepresentation, tyranny, dastardly contempt for the sufferings of those he has pauperised, and of the blasphemous claim to Divine authority to cloak his villainies, therefore it is "resolved that we, the members of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion in Melbourne, renounce his leadership for ever, and dissociate ourselves absolutely from his personal or his delegated authority; further, that we support the Rev. McCullagh in laying these facts before the people of Australasia and that we will further support him in his attempt to secure for Australasian investors in Zion City their just dues." Deacon Smith rose and tried to speak. He was a supporter of Dowie, but the Rev. McCullagh declined to hear him. There was a considerable uproar, but the choir suddenly rose and. sang the Doxology, and the proceedings ended, the motion being declared carried.