DR. DOWIE LEAVES ZION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8279, 5 November 1906, Page 3

DR. DOWIE LEAVES ZION.

EEIURNING TO MEXICO. A report from Chicago, dated September 23rd. says:—John Alexander Dowie to-day bade farewell to about 200 Zionisrs, the remnant of his numerous adherents. He will, on October Ist, start for Mexico, where lie hopes to regain bis health, but there are very few even of his most ardent followers who believe that he will even reach there alive. A mere shadow of the once fiery "Prophet,*" Dowie was to-day oarried into the spacious parlour of Sbiloh House by his two giant negro attendants, aad in weak, trembling tones said to hia assembled friends:— "1 am going away, but 1 will return again to triumph over my enemies. I am a sick man, but the sickness is not of the body. lam suffering from a broken heait. My wife and aon have left lie, and. you are the only ones who remain faithful. Zion Will become the greatest oentre in the world/' Thßn with quivering voice he closed hia short address by starting bis favourite hymn, "God Be With You Dili We Meet Again." The closing scene in the active life of his one-time aokrowledged leader of a peculiar sect was pathetic in the extreme. Women buried their faops in their hands and sobbed aloud, whilo tears rolled down the cheeks of a majority of the bronzed men. Dowie was carried to the head of the stairs, whero he pronounced the apostolio bleß&ine, and thus ended his career in Zibn City.