ZION CITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 27 February 1907, Page 4

ZION CITY.

EVERYTHING TO HE LEFT TO Till' CREDITORS.

CHICAGO, December 3. Zion C.Ly is to lie abandoned. Tin '"Restoration llost," wh eh was buiit by John Alexander Dowie, after years of strenuous ell'ort, will soon be left to its creditors by the overseer. William Ulenn Voliva, who will lead liis people forth fi|oni Idle g;tU(i t>> found another Zion.

Announcement of the approaching liegira was made yesterday by Voliva before aw audience of move than Mbb persons in the Zion Church, at .Sixteenth Street and Michigan Avenue. It was marked by his assumption ot Divine authority," At the .same time in* outlined his plans for a new e ty, to be conducted along Socialist lint's, with himself as supreme sp'ritual and temporal head. Couplojtl with 'tlio (loimcoment of his plans were vehement denunciations of unworthy members ot the church, who, he declared, were respons ble for its fall.

The new Zion, into which 110 unworthy member shall be allowed to enter will form the nucleus of a most ener getic crusade against the wck. duos of the world and that of Chicago ii' particular. Autocratic Soc'al sin is t< lie the government of the new community. No more debts, no mon holding of the land or property by individuals, but a sublime condition ol brotherly love and primitive Christ ian tv is to preva 1. At the same tiun Voliva is to be supreme.

The nucleus of the new Zion is to consist of ten chosen families which will be selected by Voliva. These families will bo chosen tor tlie'r implicit faith in the guidance of the newprophet and their preparedness to sacrifice all at his bidding. As to Hie location of the new Zion, Voliva was silent, content ng himself with the dec larationj that lie would have several announcements to make within two weeks. Jn preparation, however, for the crusade which he proposes to start in Chicago, ]to stated that to a certain extent headquarters would be located in the "Great Devil's Kingdom,' as he calls this e tv.