RIOTOUS SCENES AT DOWIE'S
New York, March 15.
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed to-day at the funeral of John Alexander Dowie at Zion City. Thousands of Dowieites knelt along the routes of the funeral procession, imping that the ill and crippled would be miraculously healed, but they were disappointed, and many of the devout caught cold instead.
Howie's followers believed that he would rise from his coffin as he had redicied many times, and they crowded round the hearse in order to have an unobstructed view of the resume'ion. There were many severe light- with the police in consequence, and some of the mourners were clubbed. The main gateway at the cemetery was broken, presumably by workmen who were constructing the Dowie vault. The cemetery authorities held Or (Hailstone Dowie, the "imkissed sou" of the
"prophet." responsible, and threatened to arrest him at the grave unless he guaranteed to make good the damage.
Dowie had written his own funeral sermon, but his representatives would not permit it to be read at the graveside, for fear of provoking disturbances.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 4
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177RIOTOUS SCENES AT DOWIE'S Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 4
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