ZION'S HOLY WAR AGAINST THE*.*.*.* \HOSTS OF HELL IN > AGO By REV. JOHN ALEX. DOWIE ZION'S HOLY WAR AGAINST THE Hosts of Hell in Chicago A SERIES OF ADDRESSES BY THE REV. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE, ' ( General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion. DELIVERED IN CENTRAL, SOUTH SIDE, WEST SIDE AND NORTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLES, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U. S. A., During the Months of October, November and December, 1899. CHICAGO: ZION PUBLISHING HOUSE 1207 MICHIGAN AVENUE. 1900. M23612 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Prelude A Three Months' Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago, 1-12 Sermon A Swift Witness, 12- 23 Opening of West Side Zion Tabernacle by che General Overseer, 25- 26 Sermon God's Message of War and Peace, 26- 39 Sermon Talmage Junior Lies, 40- 56 Opening of North Side Zion Tabernacle, 57- 58 Prelude Sin is Lawlessness, 58- 59 Sermon The Everlasting Gospel, 59- 67 Prelude Methodism and Its Hatred of Zion 69- 80 Sermon Reap, for the Harvest of the Earth is Overripe, . . . 80- 84 Prelude Some Incidents of the Holy War, 85- 96 Sermon Zion's Witness Against the Adulterers, 96-106 Prelude Welcome to West Side Zion Tabernacle 107 Sermon The Everlasting Gospel, 107-116 Opening of South Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Morning, October 29, 1899 117 Prelude Welcome to South Side Zion Tabernacle, 118-121 Sermon The Beauty, Glory and Power of Jesus Christ, .... 121-128 Sermon The Beautiful Gate of Divine Healing, 129-142 Prelude Welcome to Central Zion Tabernacle, 143-148 Sermon Christ Crucified, Glorified. Sanctified, 148-155 Prelude Remarks Upon Zion's Holy War 157-161 Sermon Zion's Witness Against the Adulterers, 161-173 Prelude Thanksgiving for God's Continued Blessing 175-178 Sermon Zion's Witness Against the False Swearers, 178-197 Sermon A True Baptism a Seal of a True Church 199-212 Sermon Zion's 'Witness Against the Oppressors, 213-227 Prelude Concerning Illness of D wight L. Moody, 229-232 Sermon Zion's Witness Against Those That Oppress the Widow and the Fatherless and That Turn Aside the Stranger From His Right, 232-241 War vi TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Sermon Continuation of Zion's Witness Against Those That Oppress the Widow and the Fatherless and That Turn Aside the Stranger From His Right, 243-542 Sermon Zion's Witness Against Those Who Leave God Out, . . 255-263 Sermon Zion's Cry in the Midnight Hour 265-274 Prelude Zion's Witness Against an Unclean, Ungodly and Crim- inal Press, 275-276 Sermon Zion's Witness Against the Modern Scribes of the Daily Press, 276-278 Sermon Who Controls the Newspapers God or the Devil? . . 278-286 Sermon Christ Against the Vipers of the Press, 286-290 Sermon The Hypocrisy of Many " Religious" Newspapers, . . 290-297 Sermon The Associated Thieves of the Daily Press 297-302 Sermon The Shameful Prostitution of the Daily Press, .... 302-308 Sermon The Need of Press Censorship and of an Honest News- paper, 308-312 Prelude The Messenger of the Covenant, 312-321 Sermon Bad Books and Bad Pictures the Enemies of the Home, Church and State, 321-330 ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Rev. John Alex. Dowie, Frontispiece Zion Reaping the Waiting Harvest, viii Feeding the Flocks 24 Zion Confronts the Modern Pharaoh 68 Zion's Buzz-saw and the Ridiculous Mice, 86 Methodism and the Dowie Teachings Have Nothing in Common, ' 108 Zion's Vision of the Blessed Hope and the Glorious Appear- ing of the Great God and Our Saviour Jesus Christ, . . 116 Zion's Witness Against the Adulterers, 130 Zion's Witness Against Oppressors, 156 Zion's Witness Against the Oppressor of the Widow and Fatherless, . ... 174 Zion's Witness Against False Swearers, 228 Zion's Witness Against Those Who Leave God Out. ... 256 God's Witness Against an Unclean, Ungodly and Criminal Press 314 War vii ZION'S HOLY WAR. PRELUDE A THREE MONTHS' HOLY WAR AGAINST THE HOSTS OF HELL IN CHICAGO. SERMON A SWIFT WITNESS. IORD'S DAY, October I, 1899, marked the beginning of a _^ special Onward Movement in Zion which will, by the Grace of God, be one of the most important religious events which ever occurred in Chicago. On this day the General Over- seer made the opening declarations in the Three Months' Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago. From the platform to the rear of the immense ground floor, and from that floor to the highest seat in the topmost gallery, Zion Tabernacle's magnificent interior displayed the serried ranks of an audience of over three thousand persons. As the man of God, with simple, direct, but powerful eloquence, set forth the great principles for which Zion was to fight in this War, now opening, the listening thousands were inspired by the mighty words of faith and courage. The fearless denunci- ations of sin were sent home to many a heart which cried to God in penitence and, confessing its wrong, vowed a greater faithfulness and more implicit obedience, especially in the matter of dealing honestly with God, and of ceasing to "rob God" by withholding the "tithes and offerings," which, under every Dispensation, were His due. Then the hallowed hour came when, nearly one hundred new members having been received, and two Overseers, three Elders, and a Deacon having been ordained, over two thousand of God's children gathered around the Lord's Table and in the sweet calm of the autumn evening supped with their Lord. Central Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Afternoon, October i, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 116: There's a royal banner given for display To the soldiers of the King ; As an ensign fair we lift it up today, While as ransomed ones we sing. CHORUS Marching on ! Marching on! For Christ count everything but loss; And to crown Him King, we'll toil and sing, Neath the banner of the cross. 2 ZIOX'S HOLY WAR. Dv, Dowie ihon read from the third and fourth chapters of the Book of Malachi: Behold, I send My Messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple; and the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, and they shall offer unto the Lord offerings in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a Swift Witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers ; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith Jehovah of hosts. For I the Lord change not ; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordi- nances, and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? yet ye rob Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse ; for ye rob Me, even this whole nation. Bring ye the whole tithe into the Storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts. And all nations shall call you happy: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts. There is not a land beneath the sun, with but few exceptions, where we have not a representative. TWO COME TO ZION FROM FARAWAY JAPAN. I am glad to tell you that two Japanese have just arrived from Japan within the last hour or two. They have come to Zion College; one of them the brother of Evangelist Inouye, and the other his son. Others are coming. Evangelist Inouye's son is only a little boy, but his mother has sent him all the way from Japan for the purpose of entering Zion College and being thoroughly trained from the very beginning. It is a good thing to catch them young. I want the nations to call Zion blessed, and may God grant it. I want to have the great joy of seeing Zion blessed to the perishing and the poor and those who are far from God. That is a great promise connected with the fulfilment of our duty in dealing honestly with God. Your words have been stout against Me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against Thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? There are a great many Christians who walk mournfully, and they are an awful nuisance. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 3 You would think that they imagine that it was written some- where in Scripture, "Thou shalt not laugh." They obey that commandment of their own making. Oh why do so many Christians walk mournfully? Why do they not walk joyfully? That is the way for people who are going to a good place in a happy spirit, a people who walk with God. He wants them to be happy. A religion which makes men unhappy surely cannot be a true religion. What is the use of it? We have no use for a religion which makes you unhappy. God is the source of all happiness, and the word blessed simply means happy. And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered. That is the cry of the poor miserable religionist who has ordinances, but has no power. He has no possession of the things he talks about. Then they that feared the Lord spake one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His Name. And they shall be Mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the Day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure ; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return and discern between the right- eous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. For behold the Day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the Day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves in the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the Day that I do make, saith Jehovah of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible Day of Jehovah come. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. May God bless His Word. Dr. Dowie then said : I ask you to pray for the entire Plan of the Campaign of the Three Months' Holy War, that God may greatly bless this great city. We are looking forward to a time of wonderful blessing, such as we have never seen before. But you know as well as I do that GOD WILL NOT GIVE BLESSING TO AN UNFAITHFUL PEOPLE. You who are thieves and robbers are a curse to this Church. You are a curse to the earth that you burden with your presence. You are a curse to the Christ whose Name you bear. To be a thief of another man's property is a terrible thing, but to be a thief of God's property is an infinitely more terrible thing. 4 ZION'S HOLY WAR. God has given you life, and everything else, and to steal from Him His own portion, and to use it for yourselves, for the gratification of your vanity, or for the satisfaction of your belly, is a disgusting and shameful thing. You who rob God in tithes and offerings are thieves and robbers, and I cannot see how you can imagine that you are Christians at all. I consider you on a par with the malefactor in the county jail. I do not want your company in the Church of God, be- cause you will be a curse to us. God's Word has said, plainly: Ye are cursed with a curse : for ye rob Me. We do not want people who are cursed with God's curse to be in our company as a Church. We do not mind your coming into Zion Tabernacle, as sinners seeking salvation, but you have no right to call yourselves Christians. You know very well who of you are thieves and robbers, who of you have been keeping back God's tithes. You know it in your own hearts. I beseech of you that you confess your sin to your God, and vow that you will sin no more. Make the vow this very day, that you will restore to God as much as you can, and that you will in the future see that God gets His tithe, even if you have to go with a hungry belly and a naked back. I say that boldly because THE CHURCH MUST BE BROUGHT UP TO THE STANDARD. I am not going to bring the Standard down to the Church. "Bring back that standard!" cried one in a battle. The standard-bearer was going too far ahead. The standard-bearer turned around and said, "You cowards, come up to the standard!" The Standard must go upward and forward. If you do not come up to the Standard of God's Word, quit calling yourselves Christians. You are a pack of thieves and robbers, and I do not want to have anything to do with you in fellowship. I would rather you would get out, because you bring a curse upon us. You have a curse upon you, and you will curse the Church with your presence, just as Achan cursed the army of Israel. He kept back that which* belonged to God, and you know the army was beaten, shamefully beaten. Joshua did not under- stand it, and fell on his face before God, saying: Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? The answer from God to Joshua was: Get thee up ; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face? Israel hath sinned. Joshua did not pray any more. He set to work to discovei who was the sinner. He cast the lot, believing that God would Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 5 guide him, and all the tribes were set apart but one. It was in that tribe. Then he cast the lot and it fell upon one particular branch. He ran that down and it fell upon one man Achan, and Joshua said tc him, "What hast thou done, my son?" You know the story who know the Word of God. Achan said, "I have sinned. I have taken a part of the spoil that belongs to God. In my tent, hidden below the soil, I have a Babylonish garment. I have a wedge of gold, and other things which belong to God." "Bring it out," said Joshua. It was God's portion he had stolen. It was brought out, and Joshua wept over this culprit, but he said, "There must be execution. Take him; take his wife; take his children; take his family; take his cattle; take his sheep; take his oxen ; take this Babylonish garment and the other stolen property. Take it all, and burn it with fire. Clean this thing out of Israel." They were all burned with fire, and stoned with stones, and a great heap of stones covers their ashes in the Valley of Achor (Valley of Trouble) unto this day. I feel like saying, "Oh God, if it is necessary, BURN A DOZEN FAMILIES, BUT SAVE ZION. "Save Zion, and help us to win the victory over the foes of God and Israel. If there are any cowards or Achans in this army, Oh God, take them out." (Amen.) I will do my part. If I find them out, they will surely go. That is what you think I ought to do, is it not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Now you know, each of you in your own heart, whether or not you are an Achan, although we may not know it any more than Joshua did. You are a thief who have been keeping back God's portion and burying it in your tent. God knows, and we shall find out surely. We shall find out, and the day we find out, I feel like praying, "Oh God, burn up the whole outfit." You say that is hard. Well, it is pretty hard. It was ;\ hard thing to do, and Joshua was a tender-hearted man, but he- was determined to have the Army of God clean. Says somebody, "That is Old Testament talk. It is not the God of the New Testament and the New Testament dis pensation." That shows how little you know. Very shortly after the Holy Ghost came at Pentecost, the people began to come to the apostles and lay at their feet thj price of their land. Among them there was a fine Christian man named Ananias, who said, "Oh blessed apostles, what joy it gives to my heart to lay at your feet the price of the land that I have sold. Take the money. Spread the Gospel 6 ZION'S HOLY WAR. throughout the world. Blessed apostles of the risen Christ, here it is, the price of my land." No doubt he made some such speech as that. Peter was looking at him, and he saw that he was a hypocrite and liar to the heart's core notwithstanding his speech. He said : Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? . . . How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. Ananias was found out. The shame and horror of his dis- covery went back upon his heart, and in a moment that heart burst and he fell down there and died. The young men took his body out and buried it. When Ananias's wife came in Peter said: Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much. He looked at her and said: How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? She did not know that her husband was dead, but Peter said : The feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out. She fell dead, too. And they carried her out. And if all the Ananias's and Sapphiras in the churches today were to fall dead, how many funerals would there be" tomorrow? Perhaps there might be some in the Christian Catholic Church in Zion. You must remember that the death of these two was a New Testament judgment, and occurred right at the beginning of the Apostolic Church. As the General Overseer of the Chris- tian Catholic Church, I say, MAY GOD TAKE EVERY ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA OUT OF ZION, and keep them out, if they have to die for it. I do not mind whether the Lord gives me a small army or a large one, but it must be thorough. We must be clean. God will not give you any blessing, if you vow to God that you are going to give to Him a tithe as you have in Zion and then not pay it. Whether you vowed it or not, you ought to have paid it because it is God's law. One said the other day, "Doctor, that is just the question: is it God's law?" There the quibbler begins. "Is it God's law? Hath God said?" And that is the way the fall of man started. The Devil said, "Hath God said?" A man said the other day, " Dr. Dowie knows perfectly well that Malachi commanded tithing for the rebuilding of the Temple." ZlON'S HOLY WAR. 7 That is the most ridiculous thing in the world. There is not a word about the rebuilding of the Temple in the Book of Malachi. It was the law of God for the whole nation, and for every generation. It was not for the Jewish dispensation alone, I am going to ask you to pray a particular prayer today when I am on my knees. If you do not pray it, I do not want to see you at the Lord's Table. I am going to "fence the Table" today on that matter. In Scotland they used to "fence the Table" at the Lord's Supper with words of warning and with naked swords. The chronological tables in your Bibles show you that Abraham lived about the year 1911 B. C., and that Moses lived about 1490 B. C. In round numbers there were more than four hundred years between Abraham and Moses. Four hun- dred years before Moses or Aaron were born, before Israel received the law of God at Mount Horeb, this happened. Abraham found a wonderful man at Salem; afterwards called Jeru-Salem, Jerusalem, the City of the Great King. His name was Melchizedek. He found that he was the High Priest of God; that he was the King of Salem, the King of Righteousness, the King of Peace, and that he was the High Priest of God. Now I cannot enter into the discussion as to who he was. I do not know. I only know that there is no character in all the Scriptures more mysterious, in some respects, than Mel- chizedek. What did Abraham give to Melchizedek? There is the plain statement. Not only in the Book of Genesis, but for several chapters it is argued upon in the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely, that ABRAHAM PAID HIS TITHE TO MELCHIZEDEK, GOD'S HIQH PRIEST AND KING, upon His holy hill of Zion at Jeru-Salem. I desire to point out to you something which some of you have never noticed. You fancy that our Lord Jesus Christ is a High Priest after the order of Aaron. He is no such thing. The one hundred and tenth Psalm says: Thou art a Priest forever After the order of Melchizedek. Aaron paid tithes to Melchisedec. Aaron was in the loins of Abraham. Aaron himself, the High Priest of God in the Mosaic dispensation, it is argued by the writer to the Hebrews, paid tithes to Melchizedek by his father Abraham. The Lord Jesus Christ became, therefore, a High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, Is He still that High Priest? Voices "Yes." 8 2 ION'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie If Abraham paid Him tithes, dare we refuse to pay Him tithes? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Shall we pay Him less? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie If you do, are you not deliberately sinning against God, and are you not thieves and robbers? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie What right has any robber to expect that God is going to bless him or the Church with which he is asso- ciated, if he steals from God? Now, I say this in all love. I say it because many are afflicted with leanness of spirit, soul and body, because they do not give to God what they honestly owe to Him. "Do you do it yourself, Doctor?" Why should I answer that which would only seem to be making me sound my own trumpet? I do not want to, but that question has been asked. I HAVE GIVEN TO GOD'S WORK NINETY-SEVEN AND ONE-HALF PER CENT OF MY INCOME FOR ELEVEN YEARS. Between June 9, 1888, and June, 9, 1899, I received more than a million dollars, the absolute disposal of which was in my own hands. I declare before the ever-living God that I gave at least nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars of that sum to God's work. I did not keep two and one-half per cent out of that vast sum of money. What I kept I used for the necessary expenses of my family, according to my light; for the education of my chil- dren, for traveling expenses, and in my home. I gave the rest to God's work in a thousand forms: to the poor, to the printing, to the establishment of missions, to the sustaining of the Elders, and to many other things. I have hitherto mentioned May 1st, last, as the end of that period, yet if I extend it to June 9th, making it exactly eleven years, I will still be within the truth. I would have had a right under the ancient dispensation to keep the Levitical tithe: for God said to Aaron: All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the corn, the first fruits of them which they give unto the Lord, to thee have I given them. . . . And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve. But up to June 9th I never took so large a portion. Since June 9th I have set apart for the fund of the General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church a certain proportion of the money that comes into my hands. I asked God to give me a token as to whether He was pleased with that. He must ZION'S HOLY WAR. Q have been pleased, for I have had more money to give to the Church than I ever had before. WITH THE GENERAL' OVERSEER'S FUND I DO MANY THINGS. It is a charity fund for helping weak and sorrowing people. It is the fund out of which I pay what I think is right in con- nection with my own personal and family expenses. It is a fund out of which I pay a great many little things that are specially connected with my office; a fund out of which I make certain allowances beyond the regular allowances of Elders when special occasions arise. It is a fund out of which I some times pay money to help other funds. I paid one hundred and forty dollars out of that fund last night to help to send thou- sands of copies of LEAVES OF HEALING to India. I am very thankful that God permits me to handle that fund, and it has been very useful. You will all say I have a right to set aside that fund, will you not? Voices" Yes." Dr. Dowie Is there one in Zion who says No? I would be glad to hear why. It is a tremendous responsibility, but my hands are clean of everything that is improper in connection with the manage- ment of funds at any time. Does it matter what the papers say? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie We have settled that again and again in Con- ferences, at one of which recently there were two thousand members present. Another was attended by more than a thousand, and there was a special Conference at which there were five hundred, all in one week. That has been settled in Zion. It is a very good thing I had that General Overseer's fund in connection with the Three Months' Holy War, because it enabled me to do a number of things quickly that I could not have done otherwise. We are at the opening of our Three Months' Holy War. We have always been at war, but this a special arrangement of forces. At this time I intend to pray A PRAYER WHICH GOD WILL ANSWER I am going to ask God Almighty, on my knees, to take every Achan out of this camp and burn him with fire, if it is neces- sary. I am going to say a blunt thing. It may seem a hard thing. I would not be at all sorry if the house of every Achan, every Ananias and every Sapphira took fire tonight and burned up all their goods and their children. I think that breed of 10 ZION'S HOLY WAR. children, if they lived, would be a bad one, and I know that the innocent would go to heaven. It would be a good thing for the world if a great many chil- dren that are born were never born. There are bad breeds. Their mothers and fathers eat swine's flesh and drink liquor and smoke tobacco and live like devils, and they give their accursed filthy blood and their dirty passions to their progeny. They bring them up just like devils. It would be better if they had never been born. Still worse than these are the children of the hypocrites, who know that their fathers and mothers are hypocrites and liars. Jesus said, "The tares are the children of the Evil One," and He has decreed that they shall be burned. I do not hesitate to say as Joshua said: "Oh God, rid us of the whole breed." I do not want them in Zion. God does not want them. Keep out of Zion, if you are going to trifle with a buzz-saw. (Laughter.) It does not pay to trifle with a buzz-saw. Zion is very much like a buzz-saw. You had better keep your fingers off, else you will have no fingers to fool with. "Doctor, what kind of a Church is this?" It is a sharp threshing instrument having teeth; the Bible said it would be. Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth : thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. There are some people who do not like sharp threshing instruments having teeth. They like molasses. MOLASSES NEVER REAPED A CROP YET. You cannot reap with molasses. A man said the other day: "Dr. Dowie talks so sharply." That is the only way. I am sharpening up my threshing instru- ment, sharpening up the knives. That is the way a man does before he goes reaping. I want to gather in the garner of the Lord a great big harvest, and I cannot do it with molasses. When Mr. Moody was challenged for giving money to the Church of Rome at Northfield, Massachusetts, he said, "Well, I sometimes give Rome molasses." Rome will take all the molasses you like to give her. She will purr over you as John Ireland does, but underneath that velvet paw there is the claw of the "beast." That "molasses" helped to build up a Church where the Virgin Mary is worshiped, where the Pope is held infallible, and where a piece of bread is worshiped as God. Chicago is through with molasses. If it is not, it ought to be. The world is tired of molasses. Even the enemies of Zion will think more of us if we do not feed them with molasses. ZION'S HOLY WAR. II It does not matter what the world thinks, anyhow. The only thing that matters is what God thinks. Any one who differs with me in the matter of tithing and will not do right, had better go home and sup with the Devil to whom they belong : for God a says they "are cursed with a curse." I do not want you to stay here and sup with God. You will find that THE DEVIL WILL ENTER INTO YOU WITH THE BREAD if you stay here and make a mock at the Lord's Table. Do you know when Satan entered into Judas Iscariot? It was when he took the sop from the Lord's hand. When Judas Iscariot took the sop, he acknowledged thereby his guilt. He saw that the Lord knew all about the way that he had been bargaining to sell Him, and with a mock and a sneer he swallowed the sop. Then Satan entered into him. If you sit down at the Lord's Table and take this bread, when you are a pack of hypocrites, the Devil may enter into you and take possession of you, and you may die the death of Judas Iscariot. I do not want anything to do with a hypocrite or a liar here today. They are dangerous company. I am not careful whether I build up a large Church or not. I am careful that there shall be a pure Church built up, whether it is big or little. Now that is my mind, and I believe it is in accordance with the mind of God. I know it is. I am talking to my own people. If there are strangers here who came in for something else, why they have got some- thing that they did not expect. (Laughter and applause.) God's people in Zion must obey God or get out. God is greatly blessing this people in giving their tithes. I was very much surprised a few days ago, to get from two persons tithes amounting to over three hundred dollars. Thanks be to God that He had specially blessed them and enabled them to do it. Zion is getting the blessing from God. He is opening the windows of heaven and pouring us out a great blessing, and when every Achan, and Ananias, and Sapphira has gone out there will not be room enough to receive it. Let us pray. PRAYER BY THE GENERAL OVERSEER. Our Father who art in the heavens, we hallow Thy Name. We beseech Thee, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, to grant this afternoon that Thy dear people who have been cleansed by Thy grace from their sins, and many of them from their sicknesses, and are on the way to Zion above, shall be faithful and true to their vows ; that they shall repent of their past transgressions against their fellowmen and against their God, and that in this matter, of which we have spoken, they shall especially make their vows today to God. Hear us, our Heavenly Father, and compassionate our past ignorance that we did not see Thy word and understand Thy will. Many of us have lost many precious years, and have lost much blessing because we have robbed God. Oh God, forgive us the robbery that we can 12 Z ION'S HOLY WAR. never repay, and in Thy grace give us grace to amend our sinful lives that we may walk before Thee with more perfect heart, and do those things that are right in Thy sight. Now we thank Thee for every one of us who has been for years past enjoying the blessing that comes from giving. Oh, how Thou hast given to us. Lord, give to us more abundantly. The more we have given of what Thou hast given, the more Thou hast increased us, until today in the midst of persecutions and trial Zion we bless Thee for it is stronger than it ever was at any time in its history. Now, Father in Heaven, grant Thy blessing upon this enterprise, upon all the new Zion Tabernacles, and all the new Elders, upon all the old Elders, Evangelists, Deacons, Deaconesses. Grant, oh God, that our glorious band of workers, the Seventies, shall be reenforced until we stand at least a thousand men and women to carry out Thy command. Oh God, bless this great company of workers. And now we ask Thee, for Jesus' sake, to be with us as we pray. All repeat together, clause by clause, the following words after Dr. Dowie: My God and Father, in Jesus' Name, by the Holy Spirit's power, I vow unto Thee that I will pay my tithe and give my offerings to Thy dear Son; that I will bring them into the Storehouse of Zion that there may be meat in this house and power to send forth the Gospel to every part of this great city, and to every part of the world. Give me strength to keep this vow for Jesus' sake, and help me to pay not only my present tithe but as much of the past as I can. Forgive my past in Thy mercy, and help me to keep this vow until I pass away from this earth, for Jesus' sake. Amen. Now, did you mean it? Voices" Yes." Dr. Dowie By the grace of God will you keep it? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Now, our Father, we have felt that this must be done, and we are so thankful to Thee for that unanimity of spirit in Zion which has made in the midst of trial and temptation this work such a blessing, made it possible for us to do it. Give us, oh God, grace now to pray with one heart and voice in the words that our Lord taught us when He said : " After this manner pray ye." The Lord's Prayer was then chanted by the choir and con- gregation, led by the General Overseer. The announcements were then made, after which the tithes and offerings were received. A SWIFT WITNESS. INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight and profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, in this and all the coming time, till Jesus come, for His sake. Amen. The portion of Scripture from which I shall speak this afternoon is in the third chapter of the Book of Malachi, and in the fifth and sixth verses: Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 13 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a Swift Witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I the Lord change not ; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. I need not inform those who are well read in the Word of God that this is a part of the wonderful passage concerning the Messenger of the Covenant. I will enter into no questions as to that matter this afternoon. It will become necessary in time to say a good many things that it is best that I should not say now. But I am clearly within my right in any case in saying to you that God herein sets forth that which we in this Holy War make a fundamental principle, namely: that is the defini- tion which God Himself gives of what the Kingdom of God is, the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but is Righteous- ness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost. This is the witness of the Holy Ghost, that THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS THREE GREAT DIVISIONS, RIGHT- EOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY. There is no Peace except there first be Righteousness, and there can be no real Divine Joy without Divine Peace. We desire, in Zion, to realize God within us, individually and col- lectively, as the King of Righteousness, as the King of Peace, and as the King of Everlasting Joy. For the Joy that is set before us, we may well endure the cross, we may well despise the shame as the Master Himself did. Oh what a joy it is to know that we know where to find Jesus. Not in circling height, Nor depth, but in the conscious breast, Present to faith, though hid from sight, There doth His Spirit rest. All scenes alike engaging prove To hearts impressed with Thine own love, Where'er they dwell, they dwell with Thee: At home, abroad, or on the sea. Could we be cast where Thou art not, That were indeed a dreadful lot; But regions none remote we call: Secure of finding God in all. There is no place where we cannot find God. There is no place where God cannot find us. If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there. There is no place where God cannot find us. It is impossi- ble for me to conceive of any place in this boundless universe 14 ZION'S HOLY WAR. where God is not; to the deepest depths of the deepest hell His hand can reach. Were it not so, it would be from a broken heart that I would be speaking to you this afternoon ; a heart broken beyond pos- sibility of mending. I could not believe in the hopelessness, for all eternity, of any man born of woman. I never have believed it. I never have taught it. I never shall. I believe that for His banished ones God hath provided a way that they may return to Him. I believe what God hath said: that THE MERCY OF GOD ENDURETH FOREVER. I believe what the Holy Ghost has witnessed as it is writ- ten: For God hath shut up all unto disobedience that He might have mercy upon all. I believe what Jesus said: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself. I believe what the Holy Ghost witnesses again: God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe. I believe in the depth of the riches of His grace. My joy and delight is to think that there never will be a time, until the last miserable spirit throughout all eternity is won to God, in which we shall not have an opportunity of preaching the Gospel that shall at last conquer all. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. I believe in that time when Christ . . . shall deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be abolished is death. For He hath put all things in subjection under His feet. When death and hell shall have been cast into the lake of fire, when our Lord triumphant shall place the Universal King- dom at the feet of His Father, then God shall be All and in all. My conviction is deep, strong, abiding in the ultimate triumph of good. It cannot be now; it must be hereafter. Multitudes have died who never knew of Christ. They never rejected the Christ, for they never heard of Him. They cannot be damned forever for a crime which they never com- mitted. It is impossible to believe it. Thank God, it finds no place it my heart. Much as I love to preach the Gospel now, how much more delightful it will be when, free from the flesh and the limita- tions of our environments, we are able to carry the Everlasting Gospel to those who have perished without Christ. To lead bands of men and women all over these lands, to seek the poor and perishing in depths of sin, is glorious. Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 15 But what will it be, beloved, when we are set free, and have the body of glory; when we shall not be weary and shall not need to sleep and lie down weary, as we do now, but where we shall run and not be weary, and walk and not faint? for we shall change our strength from an earthly into a heavenly, from a human into a Divine. Even now we can begin this glorious life. But I warn all men that is my business that THE GREAT GOD IN THE HEAVENS IS AT WAR. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Logos of Gocl, the Word of God, has come forth to War. That warfare has been raging in the heavens, and now the chariots are sweeping very low. The last days in which the final conflicts will come are not far away. In these conflicts the spiritual Zion will play the mightiest part on earth. It seems today to some to be a day of small things, and it is; but "who hath despised the day of small things"? More rapidly, in proportion, than any other Church organ- ization that has ever been established, has been the rapid, steady, solid growth of Zion. Give us the same continuous proportionate increase and there is not a part of the world that shall not be judged by the Saints of God sent forth from Zion within this generation. The first thing that God gives to the Messenger of His Covenant when his office is fully and clearly established is to make that Messenger as a burning fire, as a refiner of silver, purging the sons of Levi, purging the ministers who profess to be ministers of God. The other day one of our great enemies in the press great in his own estimation, and contemptible in God's writing one of his daily attacks upon myself, said: Dr. Dowie has announced a Holy War against the ministers of Chicago. Yesterday, when riding down south to look at a New Taber- nacle, the Deacon who is Superintendent of Construction in Zion called my attention to that statement in the paper. I remarked to him: "Deacon, you know that I never said any such thing." "No," he said, "you did not say it; but the Daily News understands exactly what you mean, because you said you were going to have a three months' war against the hosts of hell in Chicago, and they know that means the ministers." (Laughter and applause.) Now that was pretty bright of my Deacon. I said : " When I reflect upon it, I have to admit the fact that EVERY ONE OF THE ATTACKS UPON ZION HAS BEEN LED BY A PROFESSED MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. It was the same way nineteen centuries ago when Christ appeared. It was the same way when the Apostles gave wit- ness with great power to His resurrection. 1 6 ZION'S HOLY WAR. It was not the people, it was not the Roman heathen; i was the sacred council of Israel that denied them the right t preach or teach at all in Christ's Name; that denied them th right to pray the prayer of faith that heals the sick. The Messenger of God's Covenant and all the true Churc of God must be God's Swift Witnesses." FIRST AGAINST THE SORCERERS. Please to understand what kind of a witness God is goin to be by means of His people. That is how God is going t witness. There is no question about that fact: for God Word has plainly said: Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I hav chosen. In these latter days the Witnesses must be led on by som servant whom God has chosen. In the latter days the nation shall be gathered together, and the blind people who hav eyes, and the deaf people who have ears, shall be brougF forth. All the Nations shall be assembled, and the questio as to God's manifested power shall be asked publicly of thes witnesses. The statement is made in God's Word that these witnesse are to stand and witness to the fact that God in these latte days is the Healer of His people. Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let thei hear, and say, It is truth. These things are being fulfilled ; they are being fulfille not in the case of a few, but in the case of thousands and ten of thousands of witnesses, If we are to carry out the Divine purpose, WE ARE TO BE, FIRST OF ALL, SWIFT WITNESSES. Every one who has had anything to do with law courl must know that the witness who answers quickly, coolly, co lectedly, with precision and accuracy the questions that ar addressed to him, is a witness that the counsel, the judge, th jury and all connected love to hear. A witness who understands what he is talking about, witness who tells the truth fully and yet compactly, is a Swii Witness. God wants us to be Swift Witnesses. Time is passing s quickly that we have no time for long controversies. The day when men wrote long controversial volume: thank God, is forever past. The theological libraries are fille with treatises which, thank God, no one ever read or means t read. In the great theological libraries of the world there ar vast numbers of ponderous tomes on theology which are neve touched except by the worms. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 1 7 The old Gospel way of settling an argument is being brought forth clearly, emphatically: namely, that the Church of God has become a Witnessing Church. What Christ said when the Father sent the Spirit is true: "Ye shall be My Witnesses." They were not to argue. They were to witness. They were themselves to be the living facts. If anybody disputed Salvation, they were to be bold and say, "It is indisputable; He saved me." When anybody said that Divine Healing was a disputed question, they were to be bold to say, "Thank God, it is not a disputable question; He healed me." When any one said it is impossible for God to keep a man or a woman from certain sins, they could say, "Thank God, He keeps me." When any one said it was impossible for the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse from all sin, they could say, "Thank God, that blood cleanses me." The Church needs Witnesses to solid facts who cannot be disputed. Thank God, IN ZION WE HAVE WITNESSES IN THOUSANDS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS. We are learning in Zion to be Swift Witnesses. There is no use talking with a man or attempting to argue with a man who argues in a circle. The Churches always remind me of that man who had a wooden leg who was intoxicated and started for home, and he wondered that he never got there; for the poor fellow stuck his wooden leg into a hole, and he walked around it all night. (Laughter.) The Church has stuck its wooden theological leg into a hole, and is walking around it all day, and all night. The Methodists are wondering why they lost two thousand members in upper and lower Michigan last year, while all the time they were preaching, praying, and having oyster suppers. (Laughter.) They were going at it tooth and nail. They were walk- ing around their wooden leg, as most of the other denomina- tions were. The fact of the matter is this, humanity is utterly tired of it. It is time for the Messenger of God's Covenant to say, "You must be Swift Witnesses, whose testimony is unimpeach- able, whose testimony destroys the adversary." Against whom is this latter-day witnessing to be first directed? Voices " Sorcerers." 1 8 Z ION'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie Notice that it is not against the drunkards. It is not even against the adulterer. It is not against the thieves. It is not against the murderers. THE FIRST WITNESSING IN THIS LATTER DAY IS TO BE AGAINST THE SORCERER. Do you see it right up there spelled out in castaway medi- cine bottles, on the walls of Zion? Thanks be to God, Zion is witnessing against the sorcerer. The word means the same in Hebrew as in Greek, pharma- cists: makers and venders in deadly poisons sorcerers, mur- derers. In the last chapter of Revelation, amongst those who are on their way to hell to the Lake of Fire are the Sorcerers. In the twenty-second chapter and the fifteenth verse of Revela- tion the word is again used: Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. Next to the dogs come the sorcerers. The same wonderful Word in the previous chapter says: But for the fearful and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. In both these passages the word that is translated sorcerers \spharmakoi (^ap/xaKoi) , pharmacists, the makers and venders of deadly drugs, the poisoners, murderers, sorcerers. That is the word you see on every drug shop in this city. It is remarkable that the great Witness of Zion is, first of all, to be against these accursed poisons to which the Devil's own law endeavors to make every man and every woman completely subservient. The claim is boldly made by doctors that they have a right to control humanity from the cradle to the grave; that the baby shall not be born into this world without their consent, and without their presence, and that the man or woman or baby or child shall not die unless they are there. One of our Elders is under arrest at this moment in Mans- field, Ohio, for what crime, do you think ? For this and he was held, if I remember correctly, for five or seven thousand dollars bonds on this charge that he had interfered with an officer in the execution of his duty. Of what do you think the interference consisted ? The Rev. Cyrus B. Fockler, an Elder of this Church, had been called by the mother and father of a child to see their little one, the mother and father both being members of this Church. Meanwhile an officer of the Board of Health came and prescribed medicine, and when Elder Fockler was asked Z 'ION'S HOLY WAR. ig by the father of that child what his direction or advice would be regarding that medicine, he said, u Do not give it to the child, but trust God." They arrested that Elder and dragged him to prison, saying that his preventing by his advice the giving of medicine to that child was a crime which must be punished: for it was " resisting an officer." The mayor of that city treated him shamefully and held him in at least five thousand dollars bonds. This is no feeble matter. THE WHOLE MATTER IS ONE OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. The question is, Have we the right, or have we not, to accept any kind of a religion we please, or no religion if we please, so far as the law of the land is concerned ? Has the law any right to interfere with our conscience ? ' Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Is it not an inalienable right that you shall take any kind of doctor you please, or trust the Ever-living God who said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee," if you please? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Has the law a right to come in and interfere with your children, and say you have no right to forbid those children receiving medicine ? Can doctors claim the right by law to open your child's mouth and thrust this or that medicine down its throat, whether you like it or whether you do not ? The Sorcerers demand the right by law to take that child and inoculate it with disease, or put poison down its throat. Are you going to yield to that? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Zion stands today a Witness against the Sorcer- ers, and says we shall never yield to that. Never! THE CRAZE FOR INOCULATING. What is the effect of yielding? Inasmuch as today the bacteriological theory of disease is universal; and as all the doctors are hunting for, and every now and then announcing that they have found, the bacillus, the microbe, the miserable parasite that causes this or that disease; and inasmuch as these doctors are announcing that they are compounding lymphs that are antidotes for these things under the present conditions, it is not an exaggeration of the position to say that in order to prevent humanity from having typhus fever, or smallpox, or leprosy, or yellow fever, or jaundice, or any kind of disease you can think of; soon the Sorcerers will claim the right to start inoculating you from the crown of the head to the sole of the feet with these various diseases in order that you shall be free from them. The consequence is that if this principle is accepted there are no limitations to its exercise. Every kind of filthy disease can be by law injected into the blood and jnto the flesh of 20 ZION'S HOLY WAR. humanity. The result of that will be that humanity will rot! Rota ROT!!! That is the Devil's trick to kill off the Church. But, by the Grace of God, he will not succeed. (Amen.) Zion is a Swift Witness. By the way, in regard to Elder Fockler's case: the parents took the advice of the Elder, and refused to give the child medicine. The child is living, and well, and happy today. (Applause.) But the Elder is about to appear before a crim- inal court. A Voice "For what crime, Doctor?" Dr. Dowie For the crime of interfering with the Health Officer in the execution of his duty. The Brother "But the child is not dead." Dr. Dowie But it does not matter whether the child died or not; he interfered with the Sorcerer, and to interfere with a Sorcerer is a crime. (Laughter.) At least the mayor of Mansfield says so. God says: I will be a Swift Witness against the sorcerer. The continual witness of Zion everywhere throughout this world has been, first of all, against the Sorcerer. My own witness in America has been constant and contin- uous. From the moment that I stood upon American soil at the Golden Gate, I have claimed the right to preach the Ever- lasting Gospel; that God in Heaven, our Father, was in Christ, His Son, Saviour of spirit, soul and body here and now; that He had provided by His atoning sacrifice a complete redemp- tion from sin, from disease, from death, from hell, and from all the power of the Devil. I will preach that until I die. (Ap- plause.) Well, I will not die. When the end comes I shall sleep in Jesus. But I will preach that. Thanks be to God, there a quarter of 3 million who have risen up since I came to this country who believe it. (Amen.) This Witness must be continued, and throughout the whole of this Holy War we must continue to witness against the Sorcerer. OUR WITNESS MUST ALSO BE AGAINST THE SORCERER OF THE GROGSHOP. The druggist is not the only Sorcerer. There is another Sorcerer who is establishing his horrid dens on all sides the saloonkeeper. He gets a license from the State to sell liquid fire and distilled damnation. He gets a license to destroy every virtue and promote every vice. He gets a license to destroy food and create a famine. He gets a license to destroy Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 21 all that is good, and cultivate all that is evil; a license that only the Devil in hell can approve. We must stand as Witnesses against the infernal Liquor Traffic. (Amen. Applause.) It is a Sorcerer that changes a beautiful youth into a maud- lin devil; who changes a virtuous man into a foolish debauchee; who changes an honest man into a thief. The accursed wine- cup changes the virtuous wife into a despised harlot. We must Witness against it; it is sorcery. We must witness against the Sorcerers who are selling the nicotine poison, which is changing the beautiful boy into the miserable shadow of a dirty little devil; that makes him a cigarette fiend; that makes him wise in iniquity beyond his years; that sharpens his intellect, for the moment, for evil; and makes him the poor miserable plaything of hell. This Sorcerer sweeps them in multitudes into the grave. WE SHALL BE GOD'S WITNESSES AGAINST EVERY FORM OF SORCERY. We shall witness against the Sorcerer of so-called Christian Science. We shall witness against the Sorcerer of Spiritualism and fortune-telling and magic. We shall witness against all the sorceries of that mother of harlots, Rome, whose cup is filled with abominations. We shall witness against the sor- ceries of the apostate Protestant Churches, who, failing to find the Gospel within the leaves of the Bible, are preaching upon the "Sorrows of Satan," and upon the Scarlet Letter of Haw- thorne, and upon any old thing except the Gospel. We shall witness against the sorceries of those who are preaching a false philosophy. We shall witness against the sorceries of those who tell us that the way to preach the Ever- lasting Gospel is not to strike with the Sword of the Spirit, but to cover over with the mantle of love every kind of deformity and filth, and to bring people into the Church with all their sins. We shall fight against the sorceries of Secretism: for the intoxication of that cup of devils has made this continent a hell to millions. They are trying to tell us that they are full of charities, and that they hold their banquets and their dances in the sacred cause of charity. It is a lie. It imposes upon nobody, and they know it well. A Masonic paper in my hand today stated that the Masonic Order in all its branches in this country gave no less than $10,000,000 a year to charity. There are no less than one million of members of the Masonic Order in America, and ten millions of dollars would only be less than three cents per day for each member a sum 22 Z ION'S HOLY WAR. utterly insufficient to pay for Masonic cigars, and that is what I think it amounts to. (Laughter.) Is it charity? Is it charity for the Masonic Order to pay back only a little of the money that has been paid in? It is all a lie. We shall protest against the Sorcery of Secretism. Under this wide-sweeping word of Sorcery there is no dev- iltry which we will not be able to get a stroke at. Zion will also be God's Swift Witness "against the adul- terers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless; that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith Jehovah of hosts. For I the Lord change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed." OUR GOD IS AN UNCHANGING GOD. If God were a changing God, we might doubt whether His Word is true, when He said: "I am the Lord that saveth thee." But His Word is true. If our God were a changeable God, we might doubt His Word when He says: "I am the Lord that healeth thee." But we know His Word is true, do we not, Zion? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie If we had a changing God, we might well doubt His Covenant, Jehova-Nissi, "I am the Lord that defendeth thee." Has He not defended us, Zion? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will we not trust Him, this unchanging Pro- vider, Jehova-Jireh, "I am the Lord that provideth for thee"? Can we get a better Provider, Saviour, Healer, Cleanser, Keeper, or Guide? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Shall we exchange Him for the sorcerers, adul- terers and false swearers; those that oppress the hireling in his wages; the robber of the widow and the fatherless; those that turn aside the stranger from his rights, or for these unjust judges and filthy men in high places who fear not God nor regard man? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie yerily no. We shall witness for God, and by God's own grace that witness in this city will reach into every street and every lane and every home, and bring hope to mul- titudes that are now sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death. (Amen.) THIS IS ZION'S PROCLAMATION AS WE ENTER UPON THIS WAR. All who desire to stand with God's people and witness against all these evils, stand to your feet. (The audience arose, with few exceptions.) Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 23 My brothers and sisters, will you, by the Grace of God, wit- ness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the false swearers, against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, that turn the stranger from his right? Voices" Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you witness against men who do not fear God nor regard man? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you witness not only against sin, but will you witness for God? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Then pray. PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right, no matter what it costs. Give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may be a Swift Witness for Thee against all these forms of evil, and a Swift Witness for Thee, that Thou art the Saviour, the Healer, the Cleanser, the Keeper, the Deliverer of Thy people. Help me to help others. Cleanse me, that I may know in my spirit I am free from sin. Heal me, that I may know that my body is free from every disease; that I may be Thy Witness for Jesus' sake in Chicago and throughout America and to the uttermost ends of the earth, until Jesus come, for His sake. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Did you mean it, oh Zion? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you live it? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie If you will witness to this every hour of every day, what will the harvest be? It will be a glorious harvest? We shall go in to reap, for I believe that the harvest of the earth is over-ripe. May God make us reapers. (Amen.) After the hymn "Sin No More" had been sung, the serv- ices were closed by. Dr. Dowie pronouncing the following BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil, and may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. . ^ - FEEDING^THE FLOCK. ZION'S HOLY WAR. OPENING OF THE WEST SIDE ZION TABERNACLE BY THE GENERAL OVERSEER. SERMON: GOD'S MESSAGE OF WAR AND PEACE. THE foolish enemies of Zion who had been loudly proclaim- ing that their attacks had so injured the General Over- seer and Zion that he was about to leave Chicago defeated, were at a loss to explain the fact that, just in the midst of a fusilade of attacks, Zion leased two large public halls and reno- vated and refurnished them for Zion Tabernacles. In their eagerness to make the ridiculous assertion that this Onward Movement was but the last desperate plunge of a ruined man, the newspapers incidentally advertised the opening of these new Zion Tabernacles, so that they could not contain the crowds which came. On the morning of Lord's Day, October 8, 1899, the Gen- eral Overseer opened the West Side Zion Tabernacle, at the corner of West Madison and Paulina Streets, under the most auspicious circumstances. An audience of one thousand of the most intelligent people of that portion of the city listened with attention and, in many cases, with approval to the words of truth. A. w. N. West Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Morning, October 8, 1899. As Dr. Dowie appeared upon the platform he said: I welcome you all to Zion Tabernacle. May God bless the West Side Zion Tabernacle. (Amen.) The services were then opened by singing Hymn No. 151: Come, we that love the Lord, And let your joys be known, Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne. Dr. Dowie then said: Now we shall repeat together, as we are accustomed to do in Central Zion Tabernacle, the thirty-fifth chapter of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah: the Song of Salvation, Healing, Holiness, and of Triumphant Entry into the Zion above. War 25 26 ZION'S HOLY WAR. After repeating this wonderful chapter, Dr. Dowie read from the third and fourth chapters of the book of the Prophet Mal- achi, adding the following prayer: May God bless His Word. The announcements were then made, after which Dr. Dowie made the following remarks: WELCOME TO WEST SIDE ZION TABERNACLE. Good friends, I want once more to say how glad I am to see every seat in this Tabernacle filled today. As there are a thousand seats, there must be that many of you. That is a nice beginning, especially as we are a " poor, decay- ing people," on our "last legs." (Laughter.) That is what the papers say. I am glad to see so many faces which I do not know, as well as many which I do know. I am better pleased to see you whom I do not know than those whom I know. I told the people at Zion Home this morning that there was no use coming to the West Side, that they would not get in. I said I did not want to see their faces, because I wanted to leave every seat for the people on the West Side. I told the people generally that I should be obliged if they would go to Central Zion Tabernacle, and not come here today. I wanted the West Side people to get an opportunity of filling this place. I am glad that one-half or two-thirds of this audience seems to me to be unfamiliar. I welcome you in the Name of the Lord, and in the name of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, to our second Zion Tabernacle on the West Side, the little Sionski Stan (Bo- hemian Zion Tabernacle) being the first on this side of Chicago. GOD'S MESSAGE OF WAR AND PEACE. Dr. Dowie then delivered the following address: INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight and profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, in this and all the coming time, till Jesus corne, for His sake. Amen. As the friends who are gathered here this morning know, Zion is engaged in a Three Months' Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago. The Daily News says that I am engaged in a Holy War against the ministers of Chicago. I said to a friend, "I never said that." "That is true," he said, "but the Daily News knows where to find the hosts of hell. (Laughter.) ZION'S HOLY WAR. 27 It seemed a hard thing for my friend to say, that the minis- ters are leading the hosts of hell. There are but few ministers in this city who have exer- cised even the commonest courtesy and good sense toward Zion. The exceptions are so few that except in our own min- istry, one might say, one can number them on one hand. The vast majority are to be found fighting Zion. This warfare is a very real one. I have been engaged in it for some time. This is simply a special series of attacks upon the enemy to carry the war into Africa, as they say. My subject this morning is an introductory. It is a part of that which I am going on with in this Tabernacle and else- where all over the city. I desire to make the series of discourses harmonious, although Satan will not love the music. The discourse .this morning is on: God's Message of War and Peace by God's Messenger in Zion. Now our Lord Jesus Christ came to Zion long ago, and this Gospel was His Message of war and peace. I will read two extracts, one from Matthew, and one from John, and I desire you all to attentively consider them. A great many people think that Christ came to bring Peace. They make a great mistake about that. They do not under- stand the peace of Jesus. HE CAME NOT TO BRING PEACE, BUT A SWORD. These are His own words: Think not that I came to send peace on the earth : I came not to send peace, but a Sword. In the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, at the twenty-seventh verse, among the last words which Jesus spoke to His disciples after He had eaten with them the Last Supper, are these: Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. These two passages do not seem to harmonize. In the proclamation of War and Peace which it is my duty to constantly make, and at this time especially to make in Chicago, I tell you the great purpose of Christ in coming to this earth was to give to His people a Sword, and to give them the power to use it, so that they might be armed in such a manner that, standing shoulder to shoulder, they might push the battle to the gates of hell and drive the enemy out of earth back into hell. 28 ZION'S HOLY WAR. That is the purpose of the Kingdom of God. That purpose our Lord made plain to us in this Church of the Living God as reconstructed by Himself. THE ARMOR OF A SOLDIER IN GOD'S ARMY. The individual equipment of every soldier in the great Army of the Lord is, first, a helmet, which is called Salvation. The loins are girt about with a girdle called Truth. A breastplate which is called Righteousness is worn, and the feet are shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. The shield of Faith, which is able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, is held in one hand, and in the other the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. So armed, the man of God is stronger than all the powers of earth or hell. If he takes his proper place in the Army, and marches, each one in his rank, straight forward, then the Army of Zion must go on to victory. (Amen.) Our Lord Jesus Christ came not to send peace first, but a Sword, and that Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. That Word of God witnesses: Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith Jehovah of Hosts. That Sword of the Spirit which God has placed in the hands of those who are extending the Kingdom of God is, first, Righteousness, then Peace, and then Joy in the Holy Ghost. The first condition of the Kingdom of God is righteousness. It does not matter what man's conception of righteousness may be. It is the Divine conception of righteousness that you and I have to do with. If you do not think as God thinks, you will get into trouble. Obey God's law. It does not matter what I say, if I am not telling you that which is Eternal Truth. If I do show you an Eternal Truth, and if you obey it, you will be blessed, and if you do not obey it, you will be damned. Now you cannot trifle with God. THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH GOD HAS SENT, IS NOT A SWORD OF PEACE. It is a two-edged sword of heavenly temper keen, And grievous are the wounds it makes where'er it glides between. Tis death to sin, Tis life to him that mourns for sin; It maketh and it endeth strife. Makes war and peace within. When the Word of God enters, it enters to kill, but to kill only that which is evil. It enters to give life, for it is that ZION'S HOLY WAR. 29 entrance of God's Word which brings life and love and perfect liberty. It is only God's Word that can let you into God's heaven; that can enable you to see God's will; that can enable you to do that which is right in His sight. The proclamation which I make to you this morning is that the Lord Jesus Christ in coming to this earth sent a Sword. The proclamation further is that Zion has that Sword. The procla- mation is, further, that we will put that Sword into every stinkpot and beerpot and transgressor of every kind among you. We mean to put that Sword into the heart of every one of you who is not obeying God, no matter who you are. The power of the Sword of the Spirit is that it never destroys the Divine. It destroys only the diabolical. It is like the Fire of God: it burns up the unclean and the filthy, and refines and purifies from it the dross. The purpose of God in this matter is that His messengers shall bring a Message which shall be like a fire beneath the pot, and shall keep it boiling all the time, and shall refine and purge the sons of Levi until they have been so perfectly refined that they will reflect the image of Christ the Refiner Himself. The great purpose, then, of Zion is to carry, first, this Mes- sage of War, War with sin, War with Satan, War with disease, War with the powers of death, War with the powers of hell. We are not at peace. We cannot be at peace with any who are at peace with the Devil, for to be at peace with the Devil is to be at war with God. We shall not be at peace with those who serve the Devil. We shall love them. We shall serve them. We shall try to win them. We shall try to break down their enmity, but we shall never be at peace with them until they are at peace with God. Peace! Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near; but There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. They are like the troubled seas which cast up mire and dirt continually. There is no peace for them on earth; no peace in hell. THERE IS NO PEACE FOR ANY ONE WHO DOES NOT UNCONDITION- ALLY SURRENDER TO GOD. The policy of this country today in dealing with the Fili- pinos, be it right or wrong, is based upon the principle that the, sovereign power can never make any other terms with a rebel than that of unconditional surrender. The government would lose its power, its authority, its supremacy, if it made any other terms with a rebel. 30 ZION'S HOLY WAR. God sends His servant here to witness for Him. We are ambassadors of Christ. I tell you in Christ's Name today that God has no other terms with you rebels than that of immediate and unconditional surrender. A man says, "Can I not think as I like?" No. You must think as God thinks. "Can I not do what I like?" No. You must do what God tells you. "Can I not say what I please?" No. You have to say what God tells you. "Can I not use my money as I choose?" No. It is God's money, and you are to use it as He tells you. "Can I not conduct my business as I please?" No. You are God's creation, and you must conduct business in such a way as to enable you to stand before the judgment seat of God and give a good account to God of it. There is no place in this universe except in hell for the man who will do wrong. That is a plain word, but it must be true. There can be no other place. Zion's Message is not one of peace here. We are not at peace with the apostate denominational churches. We are not at peace with the Church of Rome, for the Church of Rome is not at peace with God. We dare not be at peace with that blasphemer who sits upon the seven hills at Rome, with his triple tiara, and dares to tell mankind that he is an infallible being. There is but one infallible Being. That is God. When a man declares, "I am infallible," he must be the "man of sin revealed." That, we say, is the proper title for the Pope. Zion has no fears about this matter. It does not matter what the Roman Catholics do, think or threaten. Zion com- ing forward in the Name of Christ is Catholic, but it is not Roman Catholic. It denounces Rome. Rome has been the betrayer of Christianity. We also denounce, whether it is in Rome, or whether it is in the Lutheran Church, the accursed doctrine that man can be made a Christian by having water sprinkled upon his nose when he is a baby. That is a lie. YOU CANNOT MAKE A MAN A CHRISTIAN BY SPRINKLING WATER ON HIS FACE. That cannot change his heart. The Lutheran dogma and the Roman Catholic dogma of baptismal regeneration is false. It is false in your own experience. I ask you who were sprinkled when you were babies, did that change your hearts? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Did it make you Christians? Voices" No." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 31 Dr. Dowie Baptismal regeneration is a lie. It is absurd. It is no Baptism at all. The only Baptism the Bible knows anything about is the Baptism of those who repent and believe, and a baby can neither repent nor believe. Hence we fight that doctrine which is responsible for so much wickedness; that lie which has kept such multitudes in darkness, who have believed that by some hocus-pocus process they were made Christians when they were sprinkled as babies. That is false. It is not in the Word of God. It is not in accordance with the Word of God. It is not in accordance with the facts. Zion is also here to denounce the accursed dogma of transubstantiation. How any man dares to stand up in this city today and tell you that a little piece of wet flour, molded between his fingers, and stamped with a stamp, becomes the body, blood and bones of our Lord Jesus Christ, is more than I can understand. It is an infernal lie. It comes from the deepest depths of hell. It is blasphemy. When men bow down and worship that piece of bread, they are idolaters. May God enable Zion to smash that idolatry. (Applause.) Now you are getting it hot. (Laughter.) I have seen, I should think, about ten Roman Catholics and ten Lutherans go out. (Laughter.) However, there are plenty eager to take your places. That is the way with people who cannot stand the truth. Nevertheless, God will follow them and bring them back. He brought back some of you, did He not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie "You were Roman Catholics, some of you, were you not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie And some of you were Lutherans? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie And some of you were nothing at all. (Laughter.) Zion is here to denounce false doctrine, and destroy it. Zion loves all mankind. We would not be God's children if we did not. But Love must speak the Truth, and the whole truth; and, if men and women are really wise, they will listen. They will bring every word that is said from this platform to the test of the Word of God. If it is in accordance with the Word of God, it is right, is it not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie ZION HAS COME, ALSO, TO SMASH THE APOSTATE PROTESTANT CHURCHES, which have the form of godliness and deny the power. I especially feel that it is time that the Baptist Church was utterly smashed. 32 ZION'S HOLY WAR. The Lord have mercy on you miserable Baptists. (Laugh- ter.) You have just enough water to turn the Congregational dust into mud. (Laughter.) The Lord have mercy on you Congregationalists, for you have no water at all, and you are living upon the Pilgrim Fathers' dust; the brains of a dead theology. May the good Lord take you up out of that Valley of Dry Bones. And as for you Presbyterians, the Lord have mercy upon you, for, if there is a hard, miserable people on God Almighty's earth, it is you. (Laughter.) I know all about you. I was born in Presbyterian Scotland. I was educated there. I have seen the Elder selling whisky all the week and standing in the vestibule of the church on Sunday with a spotless white shirt and a white cravat, looking like a saint. He had been living six days of the week like a devil. (Laughter.) In the Presbyterian Church it does not matter, so long as you are willing to subscribe to the creed, and to give a little, and to be a little bit decent in the outward life. You can go on sinning. So it is with many churches. As for the Methodist Church, it has gone to the Devil. It is not going to the Devil; it has gone. "What do you mean, Doctor? Was John Wesley a devil?" No. When I want good reading I take down John Wesley's Journals. I read them, and thank God for them. I praise God for that apostolic man. Then I think HOW FAR THE METHODIST CHURCH OF TODAY IS FROM JOHN WESLEY. John Wesley knew. He was right when he said that the day would come when people instead of being poor would become rich, and in that day that they would take unto them- selves teachers having itching ears; men whom they would place in their pulpits for their eloquence, and for their con- formity to the world. In that day when learning and eloquence would take the place of piety in the Methodist body, he declared the decay of Methodism in these prophetic words, "write Ichabod over the doors of the Methodist Society, for the glory will have departed." That day has come. Today the Methodist Church is ruled by Worldly Policy and by Secret Societies, and it no longer fights for God. I make the charge here bluntly, plainly, boldly, and I will not take it back. I will fight it out on that line with the Methodist Church: that the Methodist Church has gone to the Devil, because it has gone into the Masonic Order. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 33 It has gone where Ballington Booth has gone. I have an extract from a paper here which says: General Ballington Booth, of the Volunteers of America, is now a third degree Master Mason. He was inducted into this rank on Thursday night in the presence of the leading members of McClellan Lodge, New Jersey. He afterwards paid this tribute to the degrees: "1 previously had under- stood that there was much in Masonry which was commendable, but I had no conception that its principles were so noble and its work so instructive." I have no difficulty now in understanding how it is that, according to the statistics published in the New York Inde- pendent of January 7th of this year, the Volunteers of America have lost in one year five thousand of their members. Their own statistics showed a decrease in one year from ten thou- sand to five thousand. I shall not be surprised if they vanish away altogether. I say to Ballington Booth, to the bishops of the Methodist Church, to the ministers of the Methodist Church, to the mem- bers of the Methodist Church: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO BE A FREEMASON AND BE A CHRISTIAN. When you enter the Masonic Lodge, you must leave Jesus Christ behind you. I say, without fear of contradiction, that the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ is not to be found in all the so-called sacred and beautiful work of the first three degrees of the Blue Lodge. In the first three degrees of Freemasonry the Name of Jesus is cut out of all the quotations from the Bible, where it rightfully occurs. There is no room for Jesus in a Masonic Lodge: for Baal, the heathen sun-god, dwells in the darkness there. Freemasonry is Christless from the first degree to the thirty- third degree, in straight Scottish Rite Masonry. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is not in it. A bogus story of Hiram Abiff, the son of the widow of Tyre, being murdered, his body being hid beneath the rubbish of the temple, and afterward being buried and after fifteen days resurrected by King Solomon, is substituted. That story is a lie from start to finish. Freemasonry is unchristian. It is antichristian. I therefore say that when a Church's bishops, and ministers, and presiding elders, and its leading members have gone over to a system where from the first degree to the thirty-third there is no Christ, that Church has ceased to be a Christian Church. The proper name henceforth for that Church is Masonic Episcopal Church. The Christian Catholic Church bears witness for God in this matter. We defy the powers of hell. They tell us that we cannot say this in Chicago without being made to bite the dust. 34 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Very well, let me bite the dust in death, but out of my blood will arise ten thousand times ten thousand to smash this accursed system. (Loud applause.) Bishops, ministers, leading members of the Methodist Church who belong to the Masonic Order, you know that you betrayed your Lord and sold Him fora mess of dirty secretism pottage. Zion stands against these things. What does Zion stand in friendship with? Zion stands in friendship with every honest man, and every honest woman, who is prepared to say, "Christ is Lord of all, and the Word of God is the absolute and infallible rule of faith and practice." (Amen.) Zion stands against every form of hypocrisy and every form of false doctrine. We love our fellowmen too much to be afraid of them. May God grant that the fear of man which bringeth a snare shall never be in the heart of any man or women, or child, in Zion. (Amen.) ZION IS AGAINST SECRETISM IN EVERY FORM. Zion says you must have no fellowship with the infernal works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Zion has nothing in common with secrecy. Jesus said: For every one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God. What do we want with Secret Societies when we have God? What do we want with peeping and muttering, and all kinds of silly and foolish things, taking up time and money, taking you away from God? Have we not enough to do in taking care of our wives and our families, and our business, and doing our work in the Church of God, and living honest, upright lives, without going into these Secret Societies? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie ZION DENOUNCES EVERY FORM OF SENSUAL PASSION. Zion wants you to follow Jesus and do good; to love God, and to have happy homes, and be healthy. Zion says you shall not defile your body, for God has said: If any man destroyeth the Temple of God, him shall God destroy. Your bodies were created to be the Temples of God. When you put nicotine poison into your body, you are defil- ing it and destroying it. You are creating paralysis, which will affect the eye, and every part of the body. You are creating amaurosis. You are ZION'S HOLY WAR. 35 creating disease of the stomach, and of the bowels. When you eat swine's flesh in connection with tobacco and liquor, you have the three things which will make cancer almost a cer- tainty for you. That cancer will take you out of this world. It will make you smell the Devil, if you did not smell him before. We do not believe that a man who is wilfully and continu- ously defiling the Temple of .God can be a Christian. He may be a Christian in your opinion, but in mine he smells like a devil. Oh you stinkpots! (Laughter.) You unmitigated stink- pots! You fellows that chew and smoke and squirt! (Laugh- ter.) You spewing buzzards! (Laughter.) You call your- selves Christians. Is there one of you who would dare to bring up your quid, your cigarette, your cigar, and kneel down here and pray, "Oh God, my Heavenly Father, help me to chew for Thy glory (laughter); to smoke for Thy glory. For Jesus' sake, help my wife and dear children to follow my good exam- ple. Make them all chew as soon as they can suck. (Laugh- ter.) Make them all smoke. (Laughter.) Bless my dear wife and help her to smoke, and chew too." (Laughter.) Will you pray that, you stinkpots; you dirty dogs? Do you want your wife to smoke? Why do you not bring her home a box of cigars? Do you want your children to chew? No. You want to have a monopoly of all the muck yourself, you stinkpot! (Laughter.) You Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians who sell tobacco, are selling amaurosis, paralysis, dyspepsia, and cancer. ZION PROTESTS AGAINST THE ACCURSED ALCOHOLIC POISON. Zion says that the man who drinks liquid fire and distilled damnation, and the man who makes it, and the man who puts a bottle to his neighbor's mouth and causes him also to be drunken, earns the damnation of God, and the contempt of all good and true men upon earth. What! You, a Christian, and sell that which destroys food and creates famine? You, a Christian, and sell that which destroys the home, destroys every virtue, and promotes every vice? You, a Christian, when you help to fill the jails with criminals and the houses of shame with devotees? My God, you are not a Christian. You are the high priest of the Devil. Then consider the chemist at the corner. You say, "What about him? " Do you think the man who keeps a saloon the Hinky Dinks, you know (laughter), and that kind of thing do you think that man is going to heaven? Voices" No." 36 ZSON'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie Do you think that he is promoting the welfare of his fellowmen? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie If a man is going to hell because he sells one poison, alcohol, where is the druggist going who sells alcohol, cocaine, nux vomica, ajsenica, strychnia, morphine, and a hun- dred other poisons which are destroying men? Zion tells you that the Word of God says that they are going to hell. In the Book of Revelation, in the twenty-first chapter and the eighth verse: But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, ;md fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. The word Sorcerers there is pharmacists. The Greek word pharmakoi(a.piJua.Kol}, means the makers, sellers and vendors of deadly poisons; sorcerers, murderers. The word of God says: I will be a Swift Witness against the Sorcerer. We do now witness for God against the poisoner. In this sin-cursed city there is no place which is cursed more than the druggist's shop. In the drug store you can get every kind of poison and every kind of dirt and deviltry. Zion fights the Sorcerer. What is it that Zion does not fight? you say. You show us something which Zion is not fighting which is wrong, and if it lifts its head, we will take a stroke at it. Zion will take a stroke at everything evil. The Wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness. Zion has a pretty big contract on hand. ZION HAS TO FIGHT THE PRESS. Of all the dirty things upon God Almighty's earth, the newspaper press is one of the filthiest. (Laughter.) The only thing that can be done with it is to let it lie on. It is no use attempting to answer the liars. They multiply like the lice in Egypt. (Laughter.) You filthy fellows! You scoundrels who lie! You fellows who go about and smoke and drink and stink, and do everything but think and tell the truth. Do you think we are afraid of you? Do you think we are afraid of your infernal lying? Are we afraid of the whole of you put together? Thank God, Zion is not afraid of all the hosts of hell in Chicago. I mean to have a good hard hit at the Press in this Three Months' Holy War. I mean to show its "record." I mean to ZION'S HOLY WAR. 37 show its "daily news." I mean to show it in the "tribune" of truth. I mean to show it, not only in the "inter ocean," but from ocean to ocean. What I say will live, and what these wretches say will die. Truth will live, for truth is of God. We have no fear of you with all the hosts of hell behind you, for the lie must die. Zion is therefore going to proclaim that Jesus Christ is the same Saviour, Healer, Cleanser and Keeper. If any man says otherwise, then let him be Anathema. Maranatha! The Lord has come! It is time to hurl out the Anathema to those who lie, and say that Jesus Christ is not the same. Zion is therefore bringing Peace when there is uncondi- tional surrender to God. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, for God has taken away our sins. Being justified by faith, we have healing from God, for God takes away our diseases. Being justified by faith, we have cleansing- from God, for God takes away uncleanness. We can now walk in the light of Salvation and Healing and Holiness, if we will do what God tells us. THE COWARD LEADS THE PROCESSION TO HELL. If you are a coward, you will go to hell quicker than any- body else. No one will go quicker to hell than you. No Methodist will go quicker to hell than you. No Roman Cath- olic will go quicker to hell than you. No Presbyterian will go quicker to hell than you, if you are a coward. That passage says that the fearful and the unbelieving lead the procession to hell. Oh may God grant unto us a Divine courage. (Amen.) My brothers and sisters, time would fail me to tell all my Message. I have told a little of it. May God help me to tell the whole before I pass away. (Amen.) I have no fight with my fellowmen, unless they have a fight with the Kingdom of God. If you are rebels, I will pound you, I will fire into you, I will strike you, I will starve you, and I will run you down until you surrender. "Oh, Doctor, that is not like the Gospel." You say that because you do not know the Gospel. I came not to send peace on earth, but a Sword. A DIFFICULTY IN A FAMILY WHICH WAS THE FORERUNNER OF A GREAT BLESSING. "But, Doctor, your doctrine makes difficulties in families/' I know it does. Sometimes it separates a man and his wife. A man said the other day, "I came out of the Roman Catholic Church. I am married to a Roman Catholic wife, ami she said, ' If you go to Dr. Dowie's, I will break your head.' " That was a genteel lady, you know. (Laughter.) 38 ZION'S HOLY WAR. He went to Dowie's and got salvation. He was sick and he got healing, and she saw he got healing, for he was able to do twice as much work as before. She said, "That is all right. I am glad you got healing, but don't you go any more (laughter), for if you go any more, you will be sure to become a Dowieite, and a Zionite; become a member of the Christian Catholic Church. If you do, I will break your neck." One night he said to her, "Biddy, I am going to be bap- tized tonight, and I love you so." She slapped his face and told him he had better not. That night he was baptized, and when he went home he went gently in. As he did so he received a tremendous blow on the back of his head from a rolling pin, which knocked him insensible. He received other blows upon his body which awoke him, and in the dim light he could see that it was Biddy. She had literally broken his head. The blood was running all over him. He arose and put his arms around her and said, "Biddy, I love you. A week ago I would have killed you for this." She threw him from her and ran away. He went to a neighbor's, where his wounds were tied up. Then he came over to see me, and told me his story. I said, " Now go back to Biddy and treat her very kindly. Do not enter any action against her. Do not arrest her, and tell her that we will stand by her, and that we will pray for her." He went back that afternoon, but there was no Biddy there. She had gone with every stick of furniture that the poor work- man had in the world. I said, " Go on with your work, and pray." He trusted God for his body, and within a day or so he was at his work again. He went on working. One day he came home from his work, and behold he found Biddy and all the furniture there. She said, "O Billy, I have been so unhappy every moment since I struck you. I have not had a moment's peace. I have come back to do right. You can go where you like, and I will go with you." (Laughter.) Biddy is in this house today, thank God. (Amen. Applause.) She broke his head, but in that blow God broke her heart. Zion divides and yet unites. Zion destroys and yet revives. Beloved friends, after all the fierce things I have said, understand me that ZION HAS NO HATRED, EXCEPT A HATRED FOR SIN. That we hate with all our hearts. We shall go on telling people the Everlasting Gospel. There are good people in all the churches. I have had the joy of baptizing nearly two thousand persons who have been ZION'S HOLY WAR. 39 Roman Catholics. I have had the joy of baptizing thousands who have been Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists, and they were good Christian people. Here is my Brother Mason from China. He was a mis- sionary for nearly twenty years in China. LEAVES OF HEALING reached him there and brought him to Zion. I have had the joy of baptizing him. Here is another brother who came out of the miserable Dunkards. Here is a miserable Methodist; I won him. t Here is another Presbyterian, and I won her. Here is a Congre- gationalist, and I won him. And here is a Disciple, and I won him. Here is a Baptist, and I won him. Here is a Presby- terian, and I won him. Here is a Reformed Episcopalian, and God reformed him still more. (Laughter.) Here is a Meth- odist, and I won him. Here is a Presbyterian, and I won him. There are good people where you came from. There are more fish in the sea than we ever took out of it. Now let us go into the sea, and let us fish for souls, and let us take nice bait for souis, and when we come along to a minis- terial "wabagong," let us go for it. A wabagong is a ground shark which eats up the fish. The wabagong is four-fifths head and mouth, and the rest tail. (Laughter.) Ugh ! That wabagong. May God help us to kill the waba- gong and become more and more successful fishers of men. CALL. Now, every one in this meeting who wants to be wholly God's, stand. Let all who want to follow God, spirit, soul and body, stand to their feet. PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, soul and body. Give me power to do right, no matter what it costs. Give me thy Holy Spirit, that I may trust Thee, and love Thee, and serve Thee, and be a blessing to my fellowman, for Jesus' sake. Amen. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) The meeting was then closed by the following BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil, and may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the Grace of our Lord Jesus, the Love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. A REPLY TO THE ATTACK OF REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. ON the second Lord's Day of the Three Months' Holy War, October 8, 1899, Zion in Chicago had a Glorious Victory all along the line. In the morning the General Overseer opened the new West Side Zion Tabernacle at the corner of West Mad- ison and Paulina Streets, and in the evening the new North Side Zion Tabernacle at the corner of Lincoln and Belden Avenues. At both services there were audiences which taxed to their utmost the seating capacities of these large public halls. The interest manifested was intense and augured splendid results. In the afternoon, at Central Zion Tabernacle, the General Overseer turned his attention and that of his great audience, for a few moments, to the ridiculously false and shametully wicked attack of the Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage. This very unwise young man had, by his own words, digged his ecclesiastical grave, and it required but a few masterly strokes by the General Overseer to send him and his silly attack into it and bury them under the contempt of honest, thinking people. The man of God then quickly proved, by God's Word, the utter defenselessness of the position taken in the matter of Divine Healing, by the Rev. Dwight L. Moody, during his recent visit to Chicago. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 195. The Scripture lesson was read from the fourteenth chapter of Rev- elation. Prayer was then offered by Dr. Dowie, after which he made reference to the opening of the West Side and North Side Zion Tabernacles. The announcements were then made. TALMAGE JUNIOR LIES. The following prelude was delivered by Dr. Dowie: I will say a few words concerning the contemptible attack of that windbag, Frank Talmage. (Laughter.) I have entitled my few remarks, "Talmage Junior Lies." I think when we are through we will write the inscription on the ZION'S HOLY WAR. 41 tombstone over his ecclesiastical grave " Here Lies Talmage Junior, Who Lied." I am perfectly sure that the effect of his foolish utterances will be simply to bury him beneath the contempt of every honest, thinking man. (Applause.) TALMAGE JUNIOR IS ALMOST TOO SMALL TO NOTICE. I am feeling a little sorry that I have to touch him, because the creature is not in my class, as the pugilist would say. He is too small. But, for the sake of those who do not know, I may be permitted to speak of this man, whom even the Chi- cago Chronicle calls "A clerical barbarian." Is there one in Zion who thinks I need to answer him? Audience" No." Dr. Dowie I take the report of Mr. Talmage's sermon as printed in the Inter Ocean. He has declared that to be official, although the sermon he preached was somewhat different. In his talk Mr. Talmage speaks of the many charlatans in Chicago, and is kind enough to say that I am chief "Among the royal family of Scapins." I do not know whether you know who Scapin was unless you are familiar with Moliere, the writer of a set of vile French plays. The reference here is to a man of the most degraded character, who brought about, in the midst of a great deal of vice, the marriage of four people under shameful circumstances. I want to know what I have done that I should be put in the category with that dirty fellow out of Moliere. It is a dis- gusting and disgraceful simile, and has no rightful application to me. However, he says: Amid the royal family of Scapins we find the very king himself, John Alexander Dowie, the most monumental fraud of the latter part of the Nineteenth Century; the imposter whom all the newspapers are against Did you ever read, you miserable man, the question which was once put when Jesus was on earth: Have any of the rulers believed on Him? Was there a single scribe in Jerusalem who wrote in His favor? Audience " No." Dr. Dowie I am in excellent company. (Applause.) EMPTINESS OF NEWSPAPER OPPOSITION IN CHICAGO. Everybody in Chicago knows that the way for a man to win a big fight in Chicago is to have all the newspapers on the other side. (Laughter. Applause.) That has been proved again and again. Harrison, Sr., and Harrison, Jr., are both illustrations of it. The people take no stock in the newspapers. I often think that the Devil owns them all. (Laughter.) 42 ZION'S HOLY WAR. the imposter whom aJ the newspapers are against, all decent people are against, all honesty and purity and truth are against, yet who, as a blood- thirsty vampire, has fastened himself upon this municipal body, and intends to stay, against all protests, until he has sucked his fill. Is that not a disgraceful characterization? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie He says that I attacked Dr. Henson; I attacked Bishop Fowler; I attacked the great editor of the Chicago Interior, Dr. Gray, and I attacked Dwight L. Moody. He knows that he lies when he says that. He knows per- fectly well that I never attacked any one of these persons. Did they not each and all attack me first? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie I simply replied to attacks, and, of course, when I did so, I spanked them properly. If they were hurt in the fight, they have no right to complain, have they? Audience "No." Dr. Dowie I was defending not merely myself, but Zion. I was defending the doctrine which God has committed to me. If I had not done it, I should have been a coward and a recreant. Who was to defend Divine Healing if I did not? I simply stood on the defensive, and waited patiently. After they had repeatedly attacked Zion I went out and I well, we had a first-class funeral at the end of it. (Laughter.) They are buried. So far as their attack is concerned they are all settled. When we are through with Talmage he will be settled too. (Applause.) He says : " I am not afraid of Dowie." His remark reminds me of a boy whistling to keep his courage up. TALMAGE'S STILETTO TURNS OUT TO BE A WINDBAG. When I read the next thing, I laughed. I have had lots of fun out of this. It is too ridiculous, almost, to treat seriously. He says that he is going to take my verbal stiletto in his hands that stiletto which I have recklessly wielded amongst his brother ministers and drive it into my own sacred body clear up the hilt! I waited to see where the stiletto came in, and found it was only a bladder full of wind. (Laughter.) I have not met the stiletto yet. He does not know a stil- etto from a windbag. (Laughter and applause.) He says he is not afraid to enter this controversy even though "My holy brother does spell the name Dowie with a big ' D ' and God with a little ' g.' " Is there a word of truth in that? Have I ever treated the sacred Name of God other than reverently? Audience" No." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 43 Dr. Bowie He knows it. That is one of his impudent lies. Again he says: In the first place, I brand the imposter of Zion's Tabernacle as the most dangerous of Satanic hypnotists. HYPNOTISM COMES FROM A GREEK WORD MEANING SLEEP. I wonder if he knows the meaning of the word hypnotist. I wonder if he has Greek enough to know that hypnos (VTTVOS) means sleep. Did I ever send you who have sat under my ministry long, to sleep? Voices "No." (Laughter and applause.) Dr. Dowie You seem wide awake now. (Laughter.) I have done my best to keep you wide awake, and I have suc- ceeded, I think, tolerably well. I know very well that I can get any Methodist, Baptist or Mah-hah-bone awake in about a minute. (Laughter.) You have only to stir up the stinking bones of the bogus Hiram of Tyre, the Son of the Widow, whose mythical murder is reenacted in the Masonic Lodge- room every night. If Mr. Frank Talmage knows anything about hypnotism, he knows that hypnotism means that a man exercises all his power to get another to sleep. Then when he is asleep he can do anything with him. He knows he lies when he talks of me as a hypnotist. It is a very serious matter when a minister of Christ, or one who professes to be one, insults a Christian brother by saying that he is a personification of Satan himself. He says: The great mistake of Bowie's enemies is this: They have never recog- nized this devil's power. They sneer at him, treat him as an upstart, an irritating gadfly, a harmless pretender, whose absurd pretentons will soon wear out. I tell you that John Alexander Dowie has power. The power a poisonous snake has over a little helpless bird. He fixes that evil eye upon a person who can be victimized and he never lets up. He ^ gathers these bewitched and helpless dupes into Zion's Home and Zion's schools and Zion's Bank and Zion's Tabernacle. He buries them under snowbanks of Divine Healing literature. They give to him far more than money. They surrender to him their honor and their life. What does that mean, you scoundrel? Who has ever sur- rendered to me their honor, you dirty dog? My hands are clean. My heart is clean. My life is clean. Have I asked any woman or man to surrender their honor or their life? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie You dirty dog! The man is not born who can truthfully say that I ever spoke or acted in my ministry a sin- gle word or act of impurity to a woman yet, and women have trusted me in tens and hundreds of thousands. I have laid my hands upon them and God has healed them. (Amen. Applause.) 44 ZION'S HOLY WAR. You disgraceful dog! How dare you tell such lies, and utter such vile insinuations? He says I am a devil and not a minister of God. TWO THOUSAND TESTIFY THAT DR. DOWIE's MINISTRY IS OF GOD. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, every one in this house who has been spiritually and physically blessed through my means, stand to your feet. (About two thousand arose.) I ask you all, have I been used to you spiritually and phys- ically? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Did I make any bargain with you or ask you for money? Witnesses" No." Dr. Dowie Were you treated all alike? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Have I ever asked you to come to me by any promises that I would do this or that for you? Witnesses "No." Dr. Dowie Did I heal you? Witnesses" No." Dr. Dowie Who healed you? Witnesses "God." Dr. Dowie Did I in any way endeavor to bring your minds under subjection to myself, or did I ask you to be subject to God? Witnesses "To God." Dr. Dowie Have you been free to come and go as you please? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie What you have given to this Church you have given freely, have you not? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Are you content with my stewardship? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Then why does this scoundrel insinuate that I am a thief? Have I stolen anything belonging to you? Witnesses" No." Dr. Dowie I have given money, time, talent, toil. I have poured out my life like water, and I am glad I have. (Amen.) When our Lord Jesus was here on earth He said that the sin against the Holy Ghost was that they said that He had an unclean devil, and that He did these works through Beelzebub, the prince of devils. Now, if our Master was so careful to defend His own min- istry as to say that those who said that the work of God through Him was the work of an unclean devil had sinned against the Holy Ghost, He will defend His ministry still, by ZION'S HOLY WAR. 45 pronouncing the doom of such blasphemers. Was my work the work of the Devil or of God? Audience "God." Dr. Dowie God knows that I have kept my heart, by His grace, pure before Him, and that I have prayed and toiled and lived and loved and served. I warn this miserable fellow that HE IS PERILOUSLY NEAR COMMITTING THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST by attributing the work of God to Satan. He will have to answer for that before the judgment seat of God. and if he does not repent, he will be damned. He made a cry about demanding that the mayor and the police step in and break up this unlicensed infamy and com- mand the arch-instigator to stop in the name of the law. Why didn't the mayor obey him? It was like his impu- dence to tell the mayor what he had to do. Zion stands open to all without any fear. These doors are open. The Divine Healing Home is open to every Christian. That scoundrel who impersonated a Christian, and was sent by the Daily News as a spy to Zion, had no difficulty in getting in when he said that he was a sick lumberman from Wisconsin and was seeking the Lord for healing. He saw everything that any guest can see, and when he got through could say nothing against us. Why did this dirty, little, low scoundrel, this low black- guard in the Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, have the audacity to say that Zion was a place that the police ought to break up? It was like his impudence. If we have broken the law, we are ready to be indicted. We have defended ourselves against every attack, and I think it is recorded on the pages of the city's history that we came out on top every time. (Amen. Applause.) Of course the mayor and the police treated Talmage with the contempt he merited. TALMAGE HANGS A LARGE PART OF HIS ATTACK UPON MY WEARING GLASSES. He read from a pamphlet which was written in 1888, eleven years ago. If a man cannot learn something in eleven years, he is a very big fool. I am not prepared to say that I am going to say again today every word I said eleven years ago. A man once rose up in the British House of Commons and challenged the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone with being inconsistent, and quoted from a speech of his that 4$ ZION'S HOLY WAR. had been delivered a number of years before. Mr. Gladstone was then premier. He arose in the House and said: "I admit that I said, and I admit that I wrote, what the honorable gen- tleman on the other side has read. I say boldly that I have changed my opinion, and a man who can live so many years and never learn anything is a fool." I have not much to take back in all my teaching, but a man who has spoken for a great many years, and has been treading in unfamiliar fields and blazing out a track, might be forgiven if he did not make a perfectly straight path the first time. It has been a somewhat hard task for me to undertake to find the old path, which has been unused for nearly nineteen centuries. If, sometimes, I have given the path a slight curve or two, is it to be wondered at? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie I do not say that I am infallible. I leave that to the Pope and Talmage Junior. (Laughter and Applause.) All that I said, from which he quoted, is true, and I do not take back a word of it. I WAS SPEAKING REGARDING PERSONS WHO HAD DISEASE IN THEIR EYES. They had been healed, and had handed in a great many spectacles, and I said a few words about it. He goes away and gets a picture which has recently been published in one of the daily papers of Chicago, the Record. It represented myself and Mrs. Dowie and my son and my daughter wearing specta- cles. If we did wear spectacles, that was not a mortal sin, was it? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie There is the true picture of myself and family. You will find it as a frontispiece to Number I of Volume I of LEAVES OF HEALING, published on August 31, 1894. Mr. Tal- mage held up this picture, and said: Look at it. Dr. Dowie has on spectacles; Mrs. Dowie has, Miss Dowie has, and Master Dowie has. I will ask you to look at the picture, not as it appeared in the Record, but as it appeared in 1894, when not one of us wore spectacles. And now there is the picture which Talmage Junior exhib- ited with spectacles upon every one of us, and large spectacles at that. Who put the spectacles there? The Daily Recorder of Lies. (Applause.) See, you men who belong to the daily press. (Dr. Dowie hands the volume to two representatives of the press present.) Now, that was a neat little trick of the Record. Mr. Talmage says, "Behold the spectacled family." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 47 I do not desire to say anything I ought not to say about this matter. First of all, the remarks which he has quoted I spoke eleven years ago. The picture he has presented as evidence was printed in 1894, over five years ago, and at that time there was not a single spectacle on any of us. I am glad to have this opportunity to tell you that MY EYES ARE AS SHARP, CLEAR, STRONG AND WELL TODAY AS EVER THEY WERE. There is no disease in them. I have learned as the years have gone on something which I could not know except by experience. When a man who has worked with his eyes as much as I have reaches a certain age, the lens flattens, and he begins to get a little difficulty in looking at the very smallest type. There is a strain, and presently there is a little depres- sion; a concavity where there was a convexity in his youth. The consequence is that, while there is no disease in either eye, there is an alteration in its structural formation, which, if he is to read very small type, requires that he shall have a correction in the way of a convex glass, which will give to his eye the proper convexity. That is not disease. Because I wear, as I do, a very low-power glass, am I to be branded as a thief and a fraud? I have not done it secretly. I have done it openly. There have been a number of things altered since I came to this country. When I came to this country in 1888, like the song, "John Anderson, My Jo," my "locks were like the raven." If I have gray hairs now, I believe it is these wretched min- isters and newspaper men that have brought them. (Laughter and applause). I have had a continuous fight with them. Yet they will admit that I have whipped them every time. (Ap- plause.) We will whip them again. Mr. Talmage is at perfect liberty to make all he can out of the fact that what I wrote in 1888 I have modified in 1899. I am not taking back one word of what I have said : for, thanks be to God, many who were blind have received their sight while I have been wearing these glasses; many who have had diseased eyes have received healing, and many thousands have been healed while I have been wearing these glasses. If Frank Talmage is not pleased, God Almighty is, and that pleases me, (Applause. Amen.) He says he has a letter from Dr. L. C. H. E. Zeigler. I would just as soon think of soiling my hands with a skunk in the woods as with this man Zeigler. He knows nothing of Zion, and his statements as to our using sulphur or drugs of any kind are absolutely false. He has never had any connec- 48 ZION'S HOLY WAR. tion with Zion, except that he was once engaged by me as a stenographer to report one of my Sunday lectures at the Auditorium in 1894. He failed to get the report and never came near me to tell me why he failed. I have never seen him since. But he is well known. He then says something of R. A. Studd. Has that not all been made clear to Zion in LEAVES OF HEALING for September 2, 1899, pages 878-880? Audience " Yes." TALMAGE'S LIE CONCERNING PAUPERISM OF DR. DOWIE WHEN HE CAME TO AMERICA. Dr. Dowie He attempts to make it appear that I came to this country as a pauper. "A poor, wandering adventurer landed in this country a very few years ago. He had not one cent. His very railroad fare was paid to this city by the Black sisters of Rockford, Illinois," and so on. I brand that as an infamous lie made out of whole cloth. You have seen upon this platform men from Australia who have known me well-nigh all my life there. Did they speak of me as a pauper or an adventurer? Audience" No." Dr. Dowie I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. I went out to Australia with my father in 1860. I won the "Dux" silver medal of my academy, I had won it fairly before I was four- teen years old, and there was no better school there than the one I had left. I went into business and made money rapidly. I understood business, and understand business still, thank God. (Amen.) I arose until I was the resident partner's con- fidential clerk in a firm doing several millions of dollars' worth of business a year. I then secured an interest in a large hard- ware business, and was very successful. I helped to develop that business, so that we did a great deal of contracting for government and railway supplies. Though I had known nothing of water or gas, we supplied hundreds of miles of pipes, and lit large numbers of houses; and once when the gas supply failed we lit up the whole city with kerosene. I GAVE UP A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS CAREER TO BECOME A MINISTER. I consecrated the money and the talent which God had given to me to His service. I did not give God that which cost me nothing. I had money enough to carry me to the old country; to study in Edinburgh University; to bring me back, and to enter the ministry. I received salary enough to maintain me. Within two years of my entering the ministry I was pastor of one of the largest churches of Australia, the Newtown Con- ZION'S HOLY WAR. 49 gregational Church, collegiate charge of the Congregational Body. Camden College was under my ministry. I took a large part in public affairs, as I always had done, and was offered, by the late Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Government of New South Wales, the portfolio of Minister for Education, if I would stand for a certain constituency. There was no doubt whatever I could have won the seat, but I never cared for office. My interest in politics was simply in the matter of social reform. That I studied and worked at. I was powerful enough once to say to a premier in the executive Council Chamber, "If you do not do what we tell you, you will be out of office within a week." He laughed and said, "It cannot be done." Within a week he was out of office. One of his most trusted ministers crossed the floor of the House and moved a motion of no confidence in that government. We backed him up, and he went in and continued in power for three years. He helped us to close every saloon throughout the whole colony on the Sabbath Day. (Applause.) DR. BOWIE'S UNDENOMINATIONAL MINISTRY IN AUSTRALIA. After I withdrew from the Congregational Body I built a large Tabernacle in Melbourne. I had enormous crowds and several times I had to leave the Tabernacle and address them on the streets, on one occasion talking to twenty thousand people. At last I prepared to leave Australia. Talmage can find the record of the honor shown me then. I have the engraved and engrossed address with which I was presented on behalf of thousands of persons in Australasia to this day. They gave me also a very large sum of money in gold just as I was about to leave Melbourne. At Sydney and in several cities in New Zealand I received addresses and presents of gold. When I stepped on board ship to come to America, I had expended my gold so largely in my work in New Zealand that I had but a few hundred dollars in my pocket, but I landed on this Continent with some money. I came to San Francisco with my wife and family as first-class passengers on board the steamship " Mariposa," arriving there on June 9, 1888. Paupers do not travel many thousands of miles at their own cost, as first-class passengers. I went to the Palace Hotel, which I made my headquarters, when in San Francisco, for the greater part of the two years which I spent on the Pacific Coast, and I always paid my way honestly. I had the blessing of God, and was no pauper I could never have been a pauper. I would not be a pauper. I would go out into the street, and would make you buy LEAVES OF HEALING. SO Z ION'S HOLY WAR. "LEAVES OF HEALING! All about what Dowie says of Talmage!" (Applause and laughter.) I would make you buy. But I have given my money, my time, my talent, and poured it out, and if, after eleven years of work, God crowns my efforts and builds up Zion, and makes its institutions rich and strong and powerful, I thank God for it. (Applause.) TALMAGE'S CONTEMPTIBLE AND UNGENTLEMANLY ATTACK UPON MRS. DOWIE. There are no words severe enough to characterize this wretch for what he now says: His wife, his co-laborer in this stupendous fraud, is besilked, bedia- monded, and bewagoned ad infinitum, ad nauseam. What language could adequately punish this scoundrel for speaking regarding Mrs. Dowie as my co-laborer in a stupen- dous fraud? Why did he not have the manliness to at least keep my wife out of it, the low, dirty dog that he is? What has Mrs. Dowie, with her tenderness and her sympa- thy and her love, done to merit being thrown into the street and covered with this dirty fellow's mud? Shame to him! Has not Mrs. Dowie been kind, gentle and loving? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Today she is not dressed any more than a lady in her position ought to be, is she? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Mrs. Dowie is completely beyond all suspicion of being a worker in any fraud, and so am I, you scoundrel, you liar, you defiler of good people's names. How dare you? TALMAGE JUNIOR ON THE WITNESS STAND. ' He asks that I should go into the witness box. He went through the farce of a supposed examination. I will put him on the stand. Frank Talmage, stand up. Raise your hand and swear (or affirm) that you will tell the truth. What is your name? "Frank Talmage." (Laughter.) What is your business? "Presbyterian minister." Ah! Frank Talmage, I want to ask a little about you. Where did you come from? " Pittsburg." Why did you leave? "Because I had to." (Laughter.) Frank Talmage, did you offer yourself as a chaplain for the Second Illinois Regiment of Chicago? "I did." Did you not make a great display of it, saying you were going to the war to cover the boys with the Flag of the Cross? "Yes." Did you go with them? "I did." How far did you go? "To Jacksonville." (Laughter.) Where did your regiment go? "To Cuba," Z 'ION'S HOLY WAR. 5* Why didn't you go? "Because I was a coward." Frank Talmage, do you know a man named Ohneth? "I do." Was he a member of your Church? "Yes." His child was very sick, and you received a message asking you to come and see the child and pray for it? "Yes." Why did you not go? "Oh, I told Ohneth I didn't have time." * You hadn't time, but you had time to get up a lawn party, a masquerade, where they were all dressed in the follies of the time? "Yes." Has Ohneth left your Church? "Yes." Why? "Because he became a member of your Church." Why is he a member of Zion? "Because he was saved and healed in Zion when he was dying." So then, Frank Talmage, that is the reason you are howling, because your members are leaving and coming to Zion? MR. TALMAGE'S FOOLISH INTERFERENCE IN MR. TORREY'S AFFAIRS. He devotes the rest of his attack to Mr. Torrey and to M*r. Moody. Now, I have been quite interested in that attack. I have been watching it very closely. Mr. Torrey does not deny a single line of the letter which I printed. He also admits that he invited me to read that letter publicly. Mr. Torrey is too thorough a gentleman and too true a Christian to deny a single word he has written. (Applause.) This attack upon Mr. Torrey and Mr. Moody is really a matter with which I, properly speaking, have no concern. The Chronicle, which took up the cudgels the other day for Mr. Torrey, was kind enough to say that it did not need to take up the cudgels for me, because I was quite able to take care of myself. (Applause and laughter.) I will leave these gentlemen to take care of themselves. But I do not think that either of them is prepared to obey Talmage Junior's impudent directions. It was a sad blow to him to find that Mr. Torrey, Superintendent of the Moody Institute, was a believer in Divine Healing as a present day reality. But I desire to speak of Mr. Moody's strange actions this last week. I am aware of the fact that in the dark days of Chicago Mr. Moody was, on the North Side of this city and elsewhere, a very bright and shining light. That he did much good I have no doubt at all. It was with great reluctance that I replied to Mr. Moody's repeated and very ignorant attacks upon myself and upon Zion. You can find that reply in LEAVES OF HEALING for March 12, 1899, pages 457-462. 52 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I do not wish now, especially as Mr. Moody is suffering, to say anything ungentlemanly or unchristlike, although I hold that Mr. Moody has done very wrong. Mr. Moody, I fear, has gotten to the point where many men get, where perhaps I shall be in danger of getting some day and may God help me then to remember this lesson from Mr. Moody where a man who has done much good undoes much of it by being unprogressive, and unwilling to acknowl- edge the good that others do. God forbid that I should ever stand there. Mr. Moody and the churches are confronted with Zion. They do not know what to make of Zion. Many have spoken very foolishly by not understanding what they were attacking, Mr. Moody amongst them. Mr. Moody knows that in the two years and seven months since we entered this Tabernacle, Zion has baptized five thousand two hundred persons. In, three years and seven months Zion has grown from lessthen five hundred members to, as near as we can tell, thirty thousand. For this we thank God. Zion has planted her flag upon every Continent. In some of the States we have as many as seventy, eighty and one hundred and fifty points where we have members, in large or small gatherings. Zion stands before the world as a body of men and women who know what they are about, and are going at it in a thoroughly businesslike manner. Mr. Moody planted the Chicago Avenue Church more than thirty years ago. Today his Tabernacle could not contain the three thousand persons who are in Zion Tabernacle now. Mr. Moody's Church is not as large as Zion in Chicago. Sometimes we sit at the Lord's Table in this Tabernacle with two thousand five hundred communicants, ninety-five per cent of whom are members of this Church. MR. MOODY SAYS DISEASE IS NOT OF THE DEVIL. THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS. It was reported in several of the papers, and Mr. Moody does not dispute it, that he said: When we talk of disease being the Devil's work, that is downright nonsense. Now I am glad that I can take this matter for a moment from the region of personality to the region of doctrine. Did the Lord Jesus Christ talk nonsense? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Did He not say in the synagogue that day, when the rabbi was angry with Him because He healed the woman who had been bowed down for eighteen years: Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, To, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath? ZION'S HOLY WAR. 53 Was the Lord Jesus Christ talking nonsense when He said that Satan had bound her? Mr. Moody, Mr. Moody, have you ever thought how you are insulting the Lord Jesus Christ, for He said that woman was bound by the Devil? Was the Apostle Peter a fool when at the house of Cornelius he said : Jesus of Nazareth, how that God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and with the power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil ; for God was with Him? Was the Apostle Peter, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, a fool when he said that all whom Jesus had healed, " every sickness and every disease among the people," were made sick by the Devil? Was he a fool, or was Mr. Mo"ody a fool? Voices "Mr. Moody." Dr. Dowie Mr. Moody did not offer you any Scripture for his opinion, but said that if he were to get sick, he would send for the best doctor in Chicago, and do what he told him, and then trust the Lord, and he would get well. WHO IS THE BEST DOCTOR IN CHICAGO ? Mr. Moody, the words were scarcely out of your lips before you fell sick. Overseer Wilhide prayed, on the morning of Thursday, the 5th day of October, that if you would not speak the truth, God might permit your mouth to be closed in Chicago. God answered that prayer by permitting the Devil to afflict you. Where is the best doctor in Chicago now? He could not help you and so you left Chicago, because you could neither trust the Chicago doctor nor the Lord. (Applause.) The best Chicago doctor was tried, and he did not do any- thing. Then the Lord would not answer, so Mr. Moody packed up his portmanteau, and went home again. (Laughter.) Mr. Moody, you are flattered by the press, because you are not brave enough to smite the sins of the churches; you are not brave enough to denounce Secretism ; you are not brave enough to denounce the liquor traffic as you used to do; you are not brave enough to denounce tobacco; you are not brave enough to denounce the hypocrisy of the churches. You are not brave: for you are afraid of losing the friendship of the apostate denominational churches. Mr. Moody, you are not only wrong in your theology in saying that disease is not the work of the Devil, but you are wrong in your theology regarding the healing of the sick. DOES MR. MOODY SET HIMSELF UP AS GREATER AUTHORITY THAN THE APOSTLE JAMES? The Apostle James, an apostle whom the Lord Himself ordained, wrote to the Church at large in one of the Catholic epistles: "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the best doctor in the town?" (Laughter.) 54 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Audience u< The Elders of the Church.'" Dr. Dowie " and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins it shall be forgiven him." Mr. Moody, you say you call upon the Lord after you get through with the doctor. The doctor will never get through with you while you have a dollar. He will say, "While there is life, there if hope for dollars." (Laughter.) If you happen to be poor, he will be candid and say nothing can be done for you. Mr. Moody, you have talked nonsense. God has permitted you to be put to shame, and where are you? On your back in Northfield, Massachusetts, suffering from a severe cold, with symptoms of pneumonia, leaving your engagements in Chicago and elsewhere. I will do my duty. In the reply which I made to you, on the platform of Zion Tabernacle on March I2th of this year, I said: Dwight L. Moody cannot lie about this work and live. Dwight L. Moody, God Almighty is tired of your hatred of Zion, and of your fooling with the Roman Catholic Church. I tell Dwight L. Moody today that God is against him in this battle against Divine Healing. MR. MOODY MUST ADMIT THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD, which declared, away back at the waters of Marah, "I am the Lord that healeth th'ee." (Amen.) He must admit the truth declared by Malachi a thousand years later: "I am the Lord, I change not," and declared by the Apostle Matthew in the eighth chapter and the seventeenth verse, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases." God's Word declares in Hebrews, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and forever." When you say He is not, Mr. Moody, you have lied. You have denied the Word of God. You have not lied unto man, you have lied unto God. Christ is the Healer still. God says that Jesus Christ is still the same. Mr. Moody, you defended the doctors; they ought to be very much obliged to you. They have no good opinion of themselves. Dr. Belfield's opinion, when they discussed the question as to whether or not medicine was a science, a few years ago at the Sunset Club, was put into these words: The 'doctors of Chicago are divisible into three classes : The first are liars; the second are damned liars, and the third are expert liars. Dr. Belfield knew what he was talking about much better than you did. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 55 The doctors themselves who are candid will tell you that five-sixths of the doctors of Chicago are defilers of women in hundreds and in thousands of cases; that they are murderers of the unborn babes; that they are a disgusting and brutal set of men covered over with the veneer of intellectuality. They are in my judgment the filthiest and most degraded class in this community. A STORY OF PHYSICIANS' FIENDISH BRUTALITY. I do not forget, if you do, how they brought that dear girl, Anna Shafer, from the Cook County Hospital, flung her upon the floor, and stripped her naked before sixty or seventy men in the Masonic Temple. She was suffering from a very myste- rious kind of disease: a form of rheumatism which might be called idiopathic muscular atrophy, and the consequence was that not one single joint would hold together. Drs. Sanger Brown and Magrew took her in a carriage at night from what was supposed to be a dying bed in Ward Number 24, Cot Number 2 of the Cook County Hospital. She was a poor, friendless German girl. She was examined in an almost naked condition by over sixty doctors for an evening's amusement, and then, broken hearted, she was taken back to die and so furnish an interesting corpse for the dissecting room. But, thanks be to God, one day Zion went into that Cook County Hospital and took her out, and Anna Shafer, whom they expected to die, was perfectly healed. (Applause. Amen.) Her story and picture can be found in LEAVES OF HEALING, Volume I, Number 30, April 26, 1895, pages 465-467. Do you want me to repeat my lecture on Doctors, Drugs and Devils? You can have it; another edition of it. In one way or another the newspapers are paid by these men who would like to see my body six feet below the soil. But I will live until my work is done. (Applause.) If there is any one here, saint or sinner, who desires to challenge what I have said, challenge it now. I will hear you and I will answer you. No; you won't talk, but you will still do your lying. There Frank Talmage lies. Let us leave him lying there, until he repents. God will decide, God does decide, between us now. I am ready to meet my enemies at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Pray for me. CALL. All who desire to serve God fully, stand. (The greater part of the audience arose.) Now pray. PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me 56 ZION *S HOL Y WA R. power to do right, no matter what it costs; and help me in all things to glorify Thee, for Jesus' sake. Amen. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Did you mean it? Audience" Yes." After the hymn "Sin No More" had been sung, the meet- ing was closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil, and may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. OPENING OF NORTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLE. PRELUDE: SIN IS LAWLESSNESS. SERMON: THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. ON the evening of Lord's Day, October 8, 1899, the General Overseer conducted the services at the opening of the North Side Zion Tabernacle, at the corner of Lincoln and Belden Avenues. The services were announced to begin at eight o'clock, but long before that time every seat and all the standing room in the Tabernacle had been occupied. The audience was very orderly and attentive, although so many were compelled to stand throughout the services. Many who heard the General Overseer for the first time at this meeting were convinced of the truth of the glorious Gospel which he proclaimed, and Zion won many new friends. North Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Evening, October 8, 1899. The services were opened by the congregation singing Hymn No. 44: Oh, wondrous Name, by prophets heard Long years before His birth; They saw Him coming from afar, The Prince of Peace on earth. CHORUS The Wonderful! The Counsellor! The Great and Mighty Lord ! The everlnsting Prince of Peace! The King, the Son of God. After which all repeated together the thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, that beautiful hymn of Salvation, Healing and Holi- ness which is so often repeated in Zion, the sentiments of which so vividly describe the work which God is doing in and through Zion. Dr. Dowie then introduced REV. WILBUR G. VOLIVA, ELDER-IN-CHARGE, NORTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLE. Elder Voliva spoke as follows: "I assure you, beloved friends, that I am glad to meet you upon this occasion. I shall be very happy to meet you in the future at our services. We come to you not in our own strength, but in the strength of Jehovah. We come to you War-57 58 ZION'S HOLY WAR. bringing glad tidings of a Full Gospel a Gospel that will save the spirit, the soul and the body. We know that, leaning upon the Everlasting Arm, and so conducting ourselves that God can work through us, we shall be a blessing to you. We heartily invite you to come, and to listen to the Word of God. That is all we expect to teach the Word of God. "May the Lord bless you tonight." ELDER JAMES R. ADAMS, ASSISTANT AT NORTH SIDE ZION TAB- ERNACLE, then spoke for a short time. During the course of his remarks he said : "You laughed at me a few minutes ago when that stove- pipe fell down and gave me a black eye. Well, soot is very easily washed off, and while I was out there washing it off I thought of something else, and that was sin, which stains the hearts of men." A Voice "What is sin?" Dr. Dowie The transgression of law. Elder Adams "And I thought that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin, but not before we have done our part. We must first repent and go to God, confessing our sins. "Zion comes to you with a Message of a Full Gospel and free Salvation, and may God bless all the people here tonight." SIN IS LAWLESSNESS. Dr. Dowie then delivered the following prelude: A brother asked just now, "What is sin?" My answer was, "The transgression of law." Every violation of God's law is sin. Every one who in word, or thought, or deed violates God's law is a sinner, and only God Himself can forgive our past sins, and give us the power to no longer trangress, but to keep His law. The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul ; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. I am so glad the friend asked that question. I give you the answer, "Sin is the transgression of law," or, as the Revised Version of John 3:4 puts it, "Sin is Lawlessness." The Voice "Well, I don't know what the law is." Dr. Dowie Let me tell you, then, what the law is. The law is contained in the Word of the Living God. You can get it, first of all, in the Ten Commandments. You can get it in the Everlasting Gospel, and especially in the Eleventh Commandment which Jesus gave: A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 59 The other commandments never rose higher than that you should love your neighbor as yourself. This commandment requires that you should do for your neighbor what you would never expect your neighbor to do for you. Prayer was then offered by Elder Reiff, the announcements made and the tithes and offerings received. THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. Dr. Dowie then delivered the following discourse: INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight and profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, in this and all the coming time, till Jesus come, for His sake. Amen. The first chapter of the Gospel according to St. Mark: The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send My messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare the way; The Voice of one crying in the wilderness; Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight; John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the country of Judea, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins. Now after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preach- ing the Gospel of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel. I desire to speak to you about the Everlasting Gospel. The foundation of that Gospel is not Faith. If you wish to send a man to hell, tell him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Some may say, " Dr. Dowie, we know you are wrong." Why? "Because Paul and Silas in the jail of Philippi said to the Philippian jailer, ' Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' That shows you that to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is the first thing." It shows no such thing. Had not that Philippian jailer repented? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie He had beaten them and put their feet fast in the stocks, and put them in the inner prison. At midnight Paul and Silas sang praises and the prisoners heard them, and God heard them. The earthquake came, and the drunken jailer jumped out of his miserable den, no matter how beauti- ful it was, and drew his sword, saying, "It's no use, they are all gone; I may as well kill myself." 60 ZION'S HOLY WAR. He was about to plunge his sword into his heart when from the innermost prison there came a cry: " Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." What voice was that? It was the voice of the man whom he had beaten, whom he had tried to kill, whom he had dis- honored, whom he had put in prison because he had cast a devil out of a woman, because he had wrought mighty works of healing. Because the newspapers were against him. The Philippian Tribune, the Philippian Record, and the Philippian Daily News, or their ancient equivalents, were all against him. The voice of Paul was heard, "Do thyself no harm." When that voice went to that jailer's heart where his sword would have been but for that voice he then saw himself as God saw him. It took an earthquake to make him see. It takes about an earthquake to make some people see their real condition spiritually. The Apostle Paul had a God who heard his cry, who answered by the thunders, and the lightning, and the earth- quake, and the fire. A God who answers by fire is Zion's God in every age. (Amen.) The conviction came to his heart that the true God was Paul's God. He called for a light, and sprang in and fell at his prisoners' feet. He besought their mercy. He told them how sorry he was, how penitent he was. In his penitence, in his repentance, he cried, "What must I do to be saved?" To such a man the answer came rightly, "Believe." But if you tell a man to believe who has not repented, you will curse him ; you will, perhaps, send him to hell, by deceiving him into thinking that saying "I believe" is the beginning of the Gospel. The churches are full of people who have said, " Credo, I believe," but they have never repented. REPENTANCE IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL. Repentance was what John the Baptist preached; it was what Jesus preached. He said, "Repent ye, and believe the Gospel." The tremendous blunders of the molasses minister is this wretched cry, " Believe, believe, believe. Only say you believe, and you will be saved. Everything is settled with God and man when you say, I believe." You can say that as much as you please, and you can believe with your intellect and be damned by your practices. Are there not multitudes in this city who say, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth"? Are they any better? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie It is easy to say I believe. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 6 1 But the first thing is not " I believe," but " I repent. Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in Thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called Thy son: make me as one of Thy hired servants." That is the place to begin. Repentance. Jesus said : I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jesus said: Except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish. The Apostle Paul preached Repentance toward God and Faith in in our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance! Repentance! You thieves, you must give back what you stole! You liars, you must confess the lies you have told! If everybody in Chicago who had stolen repented tonight, there would be a great deal of money change hands tomorrow morning. (Applause and laughter.) If every Ananias and Sapphira in the Church were to fall dead for telling a lie, how many funerals would there be tomorrow? Repentance is the first thing. That goes deep. Do you desire to put your foundation upon the Eternal Rock? Dig deep! Digdeep! Get up the muck of your past lives. Dig deep! Dig deep! Get to the Rock. THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO THE ROCK IS TO DIG DEEP. Go back into your lives. If they went back into their lives, doubtless there are many husbands here who would have a sad tale of sin and deception to unfold, tonight, to the listening ears of their patient and deceived wives. You women are not all angels, either. (Laughter.) There are some of you who were liars from the very start. You had such a beautiful complexion, and a lovely form, when your lover saw you! When he married you he found that you had bought your complexion in a paint-shop, and found your lovely form was all stuffing. (Laughter.) You wretches! You mis- erable liars! You seemed to have such sweet tempers, and how sweet you were! You turned out vixens, and constant naggers. You are not all angels, although for the most part you are a great deal better than these men who said, when they mar- ried you : " Bessie, be my wife. Oh, be my wife ! (Laughter.) Be my wife, Bessie; be my wife, and your society will be the object of my life." You scoundrel! You are a member of every society in town except the Home Society. (Laughter and applause.) Oh, you liars! 62 ZION'S HOLY WAR. What confessions you have to make! You belong to the Elks and the Buffalos, the Red Men and the Odd Fellows, and you are a Mason and a Woodman. You are splendid joiners. You join everything. You wretched liars! You are nice husbands. You must repent! You must leave the Secret Lodge, and all "the unfruitful works of darkness," and seek to "walk in the light." Some of you women belong to the Eastern Star and the Maccabees. You women who neglect your homes and neglect your God, and neglect your duties to go to what? To these wretched Secret Societies which dig the grave of happiness, and dig the grave of home, and dig the grave of justice, and dig the grave of the Nation. May God smite Secretism. (Ap- plause.) Zion will make it hot for the Maccabees, and every other kind of secret society wasp: for they are not honey bees, but hornets. I will vex the soul of you Mah-hah-bones, you Masons, who weep over Hiram Abiff, the son of the widow, and smell his stinking body every night! (Applause and laughter.) You miserables, you are talking about the resurrection of Hiram Abiff by King Solomon! Hiram Abiff never lived, and King Solomon never resurrected him. You have all that hum- bug in your hearts, and think you are Christians, do you? You Masons think you are Christians, and yet you dare not name His Name within your Lodge. How can you be so hypo- critical? MASONRY IS UNCHRISTIAN AND ANTICHRISTIAN. You know it to be true, that in all the thirty-three degrees of straight Masonry in the Scottish Rite the Name of Jesus is not once mentioned. You know it to be true that in the three degrees of the Blue Lodge, which are the fundamentals of everything in Masonry, the Name of Jesus is not mentioned. You know that every place where there is a quotation from the Bible in which His Name should occur, it is cut out. Yet you have been fooling them with the lie that Masonry is founded on the Bible. You know perfectly well that Jesus Christ dare not be mentioned in a Lodge. His Name is tabooed; for the infidel and the Jew and those who deny His Divinity are your "brothers." What does Zion mean by repentance? Zion means exactly what God means: that you must con- fess and make right your wrongs. If you have lied, you must make it right. You must confess it if you have lied to wife or husband, or to employer or fellow employee. If you have defrauded, you must restore. Zion demands a real Repentance, full confession and resti- tution. You have no right to say you have a spark of faith unless you have repented. Repent! Repent! ZION'S HOLY WAR. 63 Repent ye and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. If you truly repent, you will quickly be baptized. " Doctor, I was baptized when I was a baby." Do you call the sprinkling of a little water on a baby's nose baptism? Where do you find that in the Bible? There is no such thing in the New Testament. Those who are baptized are those who repent. A baby cannot repent, and a baby cannot believe. Is a baby, therefore, a subject of baptism? Voices" No." THE BAPTISM WHICH CHRIST GAVE IS A TRIUNE BAPTISM. Dr. Dowie Repent and be baptized, every one of you, into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. That is what Christ commands: Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: teach- ing them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Is He the same always? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie The same yesterday, today and forever? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie -Is He the same Saviour, Healer, Cleanser, and Keeper? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is He with us all the time? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is Mr. Moody right in practically saying that Christ is not the same Healer? Audience "No." A Voice "Does he say so?" Dr. Dowie Of course he says so. He says you have to go to the doctor first and to the Lord next. That is not putting the Lord as the Healer. It makes Christ a last resort. I go to the Lord first, and to the Lord last, and to the Lord all the time. God said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee," and Mr. Moody says, "Go to the best doctor; trust him, and then trust the Lord." The Bible demands that you shall trust the Lord from the first to the last. It is a most insulting thing to the Lord Jesus Christ to say, "I will trust the doctor, and then I will trust Thee. But I will only seek Thee when I am compelled to do so." Zion says you are to repent of trusting man. Cursed is the "man that trusteth in man, You have to trust God, 64 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Some may say, "Oh, Doctor, those days of healing are long gone by. The Lord does not heal now." Do you wish to see a demonstration? Every one in this room who has been healed through faith in Jesus Christ, stand. (About one hundred arose.) A HUNDRED WITNESSES TO PRESENT-DAY HEALING THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS. Were you healed through faith in Jesus? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Who healed you? Witnesses" God." Dr. Dowie Did He use me as His minister? Witnesses "Yes." Dr. Dowie Did I charge you anything? Witnesses" No." Dr. Dowie A real salvation saves, and a real healing heals. Some may say, "Oh, Doctor, Christ is not the same today." Then the Bible is a lie. I have just shown you those in this room who have been healed. "Nervous disease! Nervous diseases!" says some little whipper-snapper of a student at the Rush Medical College. "The people never were sick. It was all imaginary." Is a cancer imaginary? Not quite. Was that story of Mrs. Ruby imaginary? (LEAVES OF HEALING, Volume V, Number 49.) These infernal newspapers do not tell the truth. They lie all the time. "Oh, Doctor, put it softly," said one to me; "they make mistakes." Make mistakes! The Daily News does not make a mistake. The Record does not make a mistake. The Tribune does not make a mistake. They lie on purpose. They make no mis- takes. The newspaper press of this city is the most accursed thing out of hell. What kind of men are these who seek to control the public mind? Most of them smoke and drink and stink, and do everything but think and pray. They are anonymous assassins stabbing truth and virtue in the darkness and parad- ing falsehood and vice in the attire of their murdered victims. But God will smite and expose those whited sepulchres, even as Christ did in Jerusalem long ago. I HAVE DEFIED THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF CHICAGO. A number of years ago, a number of reporters came to inter- view me in my office, which was then in the Pullman Building in this city. I said, "Boys, is there one of you said your prayers this morning?" They all scratched their heads and ZION'S HOLY WAR. 65 looked at one another. I said, "Would you like your mothers to know where you were last night?" "D d if I would," said one; " Blowed if I would," said another. I said, "Were you not with harlots and gamblers, you dirty young dogs?" They said, "What are you saying?" I said, " I am calling you dirty young dogs. What are you?" "Well, Doctor, you are not polite." I said, "I did not start out to be polite; I started out to be true. What are your editors, who are so angry with me for speaking the truth yesterday in Washington Hall? They are liars. Go back and tell them I care nothing for what they write. Let them curse me! Their praise of my work would be my disgrace. Let them curse me! Let them lie about me as they did about my Master. He said of the writers of His day, ' Ye scribes, ye generation of vipers! How shall ye escape the damnation of hell?' Do you think I care a pin for your threats of vengeance? Not a pin!" I care nothing for the vox popidi. Zion believes in the rule of God, not of the people: for they do not know how to rule themselves. Zion believes in a perfect salvation for spirit, soul and body. Man has a tripartite nature and is not a dual being. Zion believes in the cleansing of spirit and body, a perfect redemp- tion. Was that not what Jesus preached? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Has the Gospel changed? Audience " No." Dr. Dowie That is what Zion teaches, that is what Zion practices, and that is what Zion lives. Zion tells you people you have to believe that or be damned. You have to believe what God says; you have to believe in Divine laws. If you do not fully obey the Divine laws, you will get into trouble. If you do not obey Jesus Christ, He will be, not the Rock upon which you build, but that which falls upon you. He will grind you to powder. You cannot trifle with Jesus Christ. He has all power in heaven and on earth, and you have to obey Him. You have to surrender your spirit, your soul, your body, your time, your talents, and toil for Him, and live for Him, and, if need be, die for Him. That is Christianity. It is not Presbyterianism; it is not Methodism; it is not Baptist religion. Oh no! Theirs consists of oyster suppers and cake walks. (Laughter.) "Doctor, are you not friendly to the churches?" 66 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Oh yes, I am very friendly to the churches. I would like to smash nearly every one of them. I PRAY GOD TO SMASH THE ORGANIZATIONS AND TO SAVE THE PEOPLE. God had to smash the organizations of His own Church to save the people. He had to smash the Jewish Church. Was He not the Founder of the Jewish Church? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Did not God establish the office of High Priest? Audience "Yes." Dr Dowie Did He not establish the whole priestly office? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie When Christ came they said, "Are you going to reform the Church?" Jesus said, "If you put a patch into that old coat, you will make it worse. If you put new wine into that miserable old wine skin, you will burst the bottle." In like manner it has come to pass today. You cannot put the old-time Gospel into the new-time Methodism; it will smash the bottle, because it is only an old miserable goatskin controlled by the Masonic Mah-hah-bones for the most part. Zion does not pretend to be at peace with the churches. Zion is at War with the churches Zion accepts the battle, and Zion will fight it out on this line. It is the good fight of Faith, and a fight for the salvation of all men. May God give victory to those who are right. (Applause.) "Doctor, do you not think God can do something with the churches yet?" No. As organizations they have gone to the Devil. The bishops and the members and the leading ministers of the Methodist Church have gone to Freemasonry, where Christ is not named. The majority of the leaders of other churches no longer preach Repentance; they no longer preach a Living Faith; they no longer demand godly living. They live all kinds of lives. " Doctor, I would like to know who you are." I can only tell you I am God's Messenger, and I have God's Message. I love all men. I never fought a battle for God yet with any malice in my heart. My battles have always been fought for the purpose of win- ning the victory for God and for humanity. I shall stand up and defend the truth. I shall earnestly contend for "the faith once for all delivered to the saints"; for the Everlasting Gos- pel of Salvation, and of Healing, and of Holiness through faith in Jesus Christ, my Lord and God. (Amen.) I shall fight for that. It is the old-time religion whcih tells me Jesus saves me, heals me, cleanses me, keeps me, and will take me safe to heaven. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 67 Hallelujah for the old-time religion! (Amen.) Every one who desires to give his heart to God, stand. (The greater part of the audience arose.) Now, pray. PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right, no matter what it costs ; to repent, to restore, to confess, to do right in Thy sight, and to all men. Give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may have power over all the enemy within me and without me ; that I may walk in wisdom, in love, in purity, in the faith of God, and reach heaven, for Jesus' sake. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie,) Did you mean it? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you live it? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie God help you. After the hymn "Sin No More" had been sung, the services were closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide ; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. 68 Z 'ION'S HOLY \\'AR. \ ZION'S HOLY WAR. PRELUDE: METHODISM AND ITS HATRED OF ZION. SERMON: REAP, FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS OVERRIPE. THE opening of the third week of the Three Months' Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago, on Lord's Day, October 15, 1899, was signalized by unmistakable evi- dences that the fighting had begun in earnest all along the line. Interest and attendances were largely increased; secular and religious press opposition had become more bitter; the denominational ranks had begun to feel the disastrous effect of the heavy cannonading from Zion's artillery, and had set up a howl of bravado, defiance and abuse, which deceived no intelli- gent persons, serving only to show more clearly where the shots had taken effect. After a season of prayer and consecration at the early con- secration meeting in Zion's Hall of Seventies, and another in Zion Home Assembly Room, the General Overseer delivered a stirring address at the North Side Tabernacle, before an audience which filled the place. The weather throughout the whole day was unseasonably hot, reaching ninety degrees, and causing general distress. But it did not seriously affect the throngs who come to Zion. In the afternoon, at Central Zion Tabernacle, with every token of approval from the splendid audience of over two thousand five hundred persons, the General Overseer, in speak- ing of the recent action of a conference in the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, in expelling from fellowship two godly and successful ministers, because they distributed among their people LEAVES OF HEALING and A VOICE FROM ZION, demon- strated the fact that this Sampson among denominations had sold out the last vestige of its power to the Masonic Delilah and had, as an organization, gone wholly to the Devil. This prelude was followed by a striking declaration of Zion's sacred mission in connection with the harvest of the War-69 70 ZION'S HOLY WAR. earth, now overripe, and a warning to the world that the tares, the children of the evil one, were about to be burned with fire, according to the command of the Lord of the Harvest. A. w. N. Central Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Afternoon, October i$, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 159. The Scripture lesson was read with great impressiveness and mighty effect from the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. Prayer was offered by Dr. Dowie, the announcements were made and the tithes and offerings received, after which Dr. Dowie said : I have promised to say something in the way of a prelude before my afternoon address, and the subject which I have announced before my sermon is, as you will see: METHODISM AND ITS HATRED OF ZION. There is no use mincing matters. The longer we live the more we are convinced that it is our duty to use great plain- ness of speech. So long as the truth is spoken in love, we may speak it as plainly as we please. The Methodist Episcopal Church both South and North has been distinguishing itself for a long time by a series of very bitter attacks upon Zion. This began away back in 1889 on the Pacific Coast, when from being friendly to myself the Methodist body suddenly became antagonistic. My first services in San Francisco, when I landed in 1888, were attended by very large numbers of Methodist ministers, who spoke in the kindest manner. Many of them threw open their churches, and earnestly asked us to use them. I had missions in San Francisco and in surrounding cities which were very largely attended by Methodists. The University of the Pacific showed me very much kind- ness and attention, and I remember one of the largest missions I had was held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, San- Jose, in the Santa Clara Valley, not very far away from San Francisco. But within a few months all was changed. CRITICISM OF SECRET SOCIETIES STIRS UP ENMITY OF METHODISTS. It was found that I was a very severe critic of Secret Societies, and especially of Masonry that dark deviltry which is cursing this country; that antichristian abomination which must be destroyed if the Church of God is to be triumphant. ZION'S HOLY WAR. ?I Secretism in every form, and Masonry especially, is abso- lutely opposed to Christianity. No man can be a true and sincere Christian and a Free- mason at the same time. It is simply impossible, because when he enters into a Masonic Lodge, he is forbidden to use the Name of Jesus Christ. The Lodge, although it uses the Bible for a form and a deceit, in its manual, of which we have scores of copies, elimi- nates the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in the Scottish Rite Masonry, in its thirty-three degrees. There are many Masons present who have been through these thirty-two and thirty-three degrees, and they never heard the Name of Jesus Christ once mentioned in the Lodge. The resurrection they talk of is not the resurrection of Jesus, but the bogus resurrection of Hiram Abiff, the son of the widow of Tyre, who never existed, and never was resurrected by King Solomon. When the lodges of the Pacific Coast found that I was antagonistic to Masonry, I very quickly found that the Methdo- dist ministers and bishops, the leading men of the Methodist Church, and their boards of management, who were all Free- masons, began to lie about me, to shut their churches against the Divine Healing Mission, and to unsay all the good things they had said and to say the very opposite. This persecution began, therefore, ten years ago, in 1898. It has continued, and Zion has had to take the place that God compels her to take -a position not of friendship, but of antagonism, direct and bold, against existing apostate Protes- tant institutions, as well as against the apostate churches of Greece and Rome. You who have been readers of LEAVES OF HEALING and attendants on my ministry for five years do not need me to rehearse to you what I have written, what I have spoken, and what I have lived in this matter. During this last week the papers have in Chicago received and published long telegrams from Oakland, California, con- cerning the proceedings of a Methodist Conference which expelled two ministers for heresy. I hold in my hand a series of letters written by ministers who have been expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Oakland, California, which is just across the bay from San Francisco. I will first refer to the printed records, which are officially and exactly given to the papers in San Francisco. 72 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Now the San Francisco Chronicle of this day week, October 8th, contains a long article entitled: EXPELLED FROM THE MINISTRY. TWO METHODIST PASTORS ARE GUILTY OF HERESY. REV. W. D. TAYLOR AND REV. S. T. REEVE FOUND AT FAULT. The Two Clergymen Confess They Circulated Theological Literature That is Deemed to be Heterodox. The annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Oakland yesterday declared W. D. Taylor, pastor of the Methodist Church at Willows, and S. T. Reeve, pastor of the Methodist Church at Orland, guilty of heresy. The charges were made yesterday morning by Presiding Elder J. Emery, of the Colusa District, who called up the matter in the con- ference, and said that he was of the opinion that an investigation should be held. According to Methodist discipline, this suggestion from the Presid- ing Elder was equivalent to a request that an investigation be held, and Bishop Duncan appointed A. Odom, R. F. Allen and W. E. Vaughan to act in the matter. The members of the committee thus appointed went into a secret ses- sion with the accused pastors, after which the following findings were reported to the Bishop : " We, the committee appointed to investigate the complaint against W. D. Taylor, report, after due investigation, a trial necessary, and make the following findings in the charge of distributing publicly and privately doc- trines contrary to our articles of religion: During the summer of 1899 W. D. Taylor circulated in the bounds of the Colusa District, at Willows, Princeton and Colusa, Dowie literature, and he acknowledged the fact to the Presiding Elder, Joseph Emery. " In the case of S. T. Reeve the charges are the same, with specifica- tions as follows: During the month of September, 1899, S. T. Reeve circu- lated in the home of Joseph Emery the Dowie literature, and acknowledged the fact to Joseph Emery. During the month of July, 1899, S. T. Reeve circulated in the home of J. M. Pratt, Dowie literature, and acknowledged the fact to J. M. Pratt. On July 25, 1899, S. T. Reeve wrote a letter to J. M. Pratt advocating heresy. During the session of the Pacific Annual Con- ference, in Oakland, California, on October 7, 1899, S. T. Reeve acknowl- edged in open conference that he had during the conference now closing circulated Dowie literature." A trial committee was then asked for and the Bishop appointed W. J. Mahon, W. A. Booker, I. F. Belts, J. A. Batchelor, D. Booher, F. M. Stanton, W. E. Phillips, C. E. Clark, Z. J. Needham and H. W. Curran. Upon Rev. J. J. N. Kenney was imposed the duty of acting as prosecutor. The com- mittee remained in session all afternoon, and at the evening session of the conference made the following report : " We, the committee of trial in the case of Revs. S. T. Reeve and W. D. Taylor, find each of them guilty as charged in the bill of charges and spec- ifications, they having confessed their guilt, and we recommend that they be expelled from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. (Applause and laughter.) Why, you seem to be happy. (Laughter.) Then it is signed by all the members. The report of the committee was adopted without discussion. The expelled ministers hurriedly left the conference and did no? return. Secre- ZION'S HOLY WAR. 73 tary Renfro, of the conference, is authority for the statement that it is not likely they will ever be seen in a Methodist church again. I think that is right. The charges preferred against the clergymen are that they have circu- lated the literature of Rev. Alexander Dowie, a Chicago religionist, who some years ago made this city his temporary residence. The Dowie the- ology, according to orthodox Methodism, is heterodoxy of the rankest kind. Before the trial committee the accused clergymen admitted that they had circulated the literature, and had accepted its teachings, although they said they had not renounced Methodism; but the committee was not long in coming to the conclusion that there was no place in the Methodist fold for Rev. Mr. Taylor and Rev. Mr. Reeve. Bishop Duncan disliked very much the idea of discussing the affair, and remarked that it was exceedingly painful for him even to think of the incident, which, in a measure, had marred the enjoyment of the conference. While he did not say so in so many words, he gave the impression that he approved of the action of the committee. Presiding Elder Emery gave the findings his approval, and said : "These clergymen knowingly circulated this Dowie literature, which all the members of this conference know to be vicious, heterodox, and a direct blow at the existence of Methodist institutions. I regret that it was my duty to make the charge, but at the same time I know that the belief of Metho- dism" Now, I want you to notice this, for this is the statement of the man who was responsible for the excommunication of these brethren. He says: "the belief of Methodism and the Dowie teachings have nothing in common." I desire you to remember that sentence. "The belief of Methodism and the Dowie teachings have nothing in common. The trial ended in the only manner possible, Tor every effort was made to get the two gentlemen to see the error of their way, and if they could not return to the simple teachings of the Church to withdraw and enter the field to which they believed they were called. They refused to adopt either course, and it remained for the Church to take action." They were accordingly expelled from membership and from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. I think I will place the facts before you still more clearly by reading you Mr. Reeve's own letter concerning this. Would you like to hear it? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie I do not know these brethren at all personally. They simply have been, like thousands of others, readers of LEAVES OF HEALING and of A VOICE FROM ZION. They have written to me previous letters which I should like to read, but they would be too long. These letters give me very interest- ing accounts of their work, and how God was blessing them. LETTER OF REV. S. T. REEVE, EXPELLED FROM METHODIST CON- FERENCE FOR HIS FAITH. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, October 7, 1899. REV. JOHN ALEX. DOWIE. Dear Brother: The conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is in session in this city. It began Oct. 4th. We attended the con- ference. Three ministers of the above mentioned Church brought charges 74 ZION'S HOLY WAR. against Rev. W. D. Taylor and myself for circulating the literature of the Christian Catholic Church, which said that the M. E. Church South was apostate and going to the Devil. These charges were made after I read my report of thirty conversions and a new church being built. Mr. Taylor also gave in an excellent report; in fact, the best one he ever gave in all his ministry. Then the charges were brought in. It seemed as if an explosion had taken place. Friends begged us for the Church's sake and for God's sake to take it all back, for it would ruin the Church; but we said, No. We came before a committee, and there also said, No. Then I showed the committee how it was that the churches were apostate and gone to the Devil. I proved it, too. Then Taylor gave them an outline of the Christian Catholic Church teachings, ft made some of the committee very uneasy, especially the president of the committee, who is an old stinkpot. He just got up and "bucked" and snorted. My, he was mad! God bless the committee. They have turned us out, and we are free, glory to God ! We are trusting and praying that God may open up the way for us to go to Zion to receive her welcome and her teachings. God bless Dowie God bless the Christian Catholic Church. Your BrotherTn Jesus' Name, REV. S. T. REEVE. Freed from bondage October 7, 1899. Glory to God. (Applause and laughter.) Now, you Methodists, you had better sit still and take your medicine nicely. (Applause and laughter.) This conference has said that the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE TEACHINGS OF ZION. What are the teachings of Zion? I will ask this audience, thousands of whom have attended my ministry and read the literature which I have produced, is not the first teaching in Zion that a man must repent of his sins? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is it not demanded that he shall also make restitution to those whom he has wronged? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is it not demanded then that a man shall have faith in God our Father through faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of his sin? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is it not demanded then that he shall trust in God for all things and live a holy life? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Is he not directed to give his spirit, soul and body wholly to God, and to believe what God in the ancient Dispensation said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee " ? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie And that Jesus Christ is the same Saviour, Healer, Cleanser and Keeper? Audience "Yes." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 75 Dr. Dowie And the Methodist Episcopal Church has nothing in common with it? Very well, then, the Methodist Church by saying that has proved that it has gone to the Devil. The Methodist Episcopal Church is getting very mad; but this is not the way to prevent the spread of Zion's Doctrines in the Methodist Church. It is the way to increase Zion; it is the way to strengthen Zion; it is the way to make a great landslide in the Methodist Church, which is cracked all through now. (Amen.) THE ROCK RIVER CONFERENCE MAKES A GREAT BOAST OVER A GAIN OF HALF A MEMBER PER CHURCH PER ANNUM. Oh, how they have boasted this last week that at last the tide has turned. At their conference a year ago they reported a loss of one thousand members. At the conference a few days ago they reported a gain of one thousand three hundred, and now they shout, "Look! What a splendid result!" What is the result? If their figures are to believed and I say boldly I do not believe them, and I have good reason for saying so but if the figures are to be believed, they have gained exactly three hun- dred members in two years. That is one hundred and fifty members per annum in the whole conference. I am informed that there are three hundred churches in that conference. Each church, therefore, has gained, on an average, exactly half a member a year, and they are whooping with delight. (Applause and laughter.) Half a member a year! It takes a church, with its board of management, its Epworth League, its "exhausters" (laugh- ter), and all its various agencies, oyster suppers included (laughter), a whole year to make half a member! (Applause and laughter.) Then they finish him off in the second year. (Laughter.) It is ridiculous to call that progress. Here is Zion, despised Zion. In two years and seven months we have baptized five thousand two hundred and thirty. We have baptized more than two thousand a year lately. We have been growing in our fellowship for some time at considerably over one thousand members a month, taking the whole of our various branches throughout the country and the world. When this Church was formed, on February 22, 1896, we had less than five hundred members. Today we have more than thirty thousand. Thank God for that. (Amen.) Now this Methodist Church sets itself up and says it has "nothing in common" with Zion. I believe it. (Laughter.) ZION'S RECORD AS AN INSTRUMENT IN GOD's HANDS. Zion has baptized within the past few years more than two thousand ex-Roman Catholics, thanks be to God, but Metho- dism has "nothing in common " with that. 76 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Zion has brought thousands out of darkness into light, out of sin and Satan to God, out of sickness into health, out of unhappy lives into happy lives, and planted happy homes, has she not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Zion's work has increased the prosperity of the people. Drunkards and harlots have been won to God. We have a Home of Hope, which is constantly filled with from fifteen to twenty women, and a number of their babies. We have baptized more than twenty out of that Home of Hope within the last six months. They were won to God from the deepest depths of sin. We have restored them to their fami- lies and their friends, and their mothers and their fathers, and their God. Methodism has "nothing in common" with that, has it? Audience " No." Dr. Dowie Then where is Methodism? Is it on God's side, or the Devil's side? Audience "On the Devil's." Dr. Dowie I will accept the issue. I will declare that, as an ecclesiastical organism, Methodism has gone to the Devil. A Church which can produce only one member per church in its conference for two years has no right to exist. No man living would invest his capital with a return of one- half of one per cent per annum. He would know that his business had gone to the bow- wows. (Laughter.) I accept the War against apostate Methodism: for "the battle is the Lord's." A sweet little girl came on the platform just now and held a dollar in her hand. She said, " For you, Dr. Dowie." I kissed her and asked what for? She said, "For de Holy War." (Applause.) Even Zion s little children rejoice in this Holy War. We are in this Holy War, and, thanks be to God, we are not in it for three months only. WE ARE IN IT TO THE END OF THE WAR. We are having a special three months before the year ends, but after the year is ended we will carry the War into that apostate Methodist Church, which drives out of its ministry and its membership men against whose moral and spiritual character there is no charge. They were driven out simply because they conscientiously believed what Zion taught, and circulated a few tracts, and a few copies of LEAVES OF HEAL- ING. There is the liberty of Methodism ! What liberty has it? If these men had been Mah-hah-bones and had been to banquets of Masons and gotten drunk and were gluttons, there would have been nothing said about it. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 77 If they had been like a distinguished member of their book concern in Cincinnati, a taker of a bribe of one hundred and eighty dollars, there would have been nothing said about it. If they had been like another taker of a bribe in connection with the publishing of a hymn-book, there would have been nothing said about it. If they had been like another who was recently praised in this city, but was driven out of his Church for immorality, whose wife is living apart from him, who is today prominent in the ministry, there would have been nothing said about it. But these men in California who have been expelled from membership and office for the alleged crime of spreading "Dowie Literature" are living good and holy lives, and yet they are driven out of the ministry, for the Methodist Church has nothing in common with repentance, with faith, with heal- ing, with holiness, with salvation, with anything that belongs to God, unless it will at the same time benefit Methodism. It is no longer the Methodist Episcopal Church. CALL IT THE MASONIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Friends, Zion is at war. Thank God for this opportunity of pouring a little hot shot into that miserable Mah-hah-bone Methodist community. Vast numbers of excellent Christians are still in that Church. May God destroy the organization and save the people. (Amen.) They are wounded and being carried off the battlefield. (Applause and laughter.) They are being wounded in all directions, and the Devil is carrying them out. In the Northwestern Christian Advocate of September 6th, printed in this city, in a bitter article headed "As to Dowie," it says : The world is full of invalids, sickness and suffering. Some people go to ignorant doctors ; some go to utter quacks ; some summon good doctors, but are unwilling to await the gradual cure of diseases which are inherited, or have taken possession of their bodies during years of violation of health- conditions; some suffer from ills which are complicated by this or that manifestation of hysteria, and others have become addicted to the habitual consumption of quack medicines whose advertisement has become a science and whose profits breed millionaires. That cannot apply to me, for I have never had a single advertisement for any of these things in LEAVES OF HEAL- ING. But their own mouthpiece is their own condemnation: for this Masonic Episcopal Methodist paper, which is speaking against quack advertisements, prints many of them. I will read to you some advertisements which appeared on Septem- 7 8 Z ION'S HOLY WAR. her 6th, in this very same issue of the Northwestern Christian Advocate. ADVERTISEMENTS OF QUACK MEDICINES IN A METHODIST PAPER. All listen and see what they advertise: CANCER, SALT RHEUM, RHEUMATISM, PILES, And all blood diseases cured by fluid and solid extract of RED CLOVER BLOSSOMS. D. NEEDHAM'S SONS, 17 Inter Ocean Building, Chicago. Is that not a quack business? CANCERS CURED. The absorption process a conceded success. Scarcely a failure in six- teen years. No knife. No caustic. No blood. No pain. Write Dr. Hess, of Grand Rapids, Mich., for particulars and references. For cancer of the breast, if not broken out, treatment can be sent. TRIAL PACKAGE FREE! If any reader, suffering from rheumatism, will write to me, I will send them (free of cost) a trial package of a simple and harmless remedy which cured me and thousands of others, among them cases of over forty years' standing. This is an honest remedy that you can test before you part with your money. Address JOHN A. SMITH, 204 Summerfield Church Building, Milwaukee, Wis. Red, Rough Hands and Wrists cured and kept soft while you work by SHEGOCKO, or money back, 2$c and 5oc. Trial, loc for postage and package. Live canvassers wanted. SHEGOCKO Co., Sta. P, Chicago, 111. THIS WILL INTEREST MANY. F. W. Parkhurst, the Boston Publisher, says that if any one who is afflicted with rheumatism in any form, or neuralgia, will send their address to him at Box 1501, Boston, Mass., he will direct them to a perfect cure. He has nothing to sell or give, only tells you how he was cured. Hundreds have tested it with success. The next thing is: NO FAITH CURE ABOUT STUART'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS. Then there is a half column of that. Honor is Purchased By Deeds we Do. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. And: PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. SWIFT'S PREMIUM HAMS. . And: Wesley Hospital Curable and non-contagious diseases. SCIENCE OF RELIGION, OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. That is an ungodly and bad book. Just Published. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REASONING. By Alfred Binet. Another bad book. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 79 And then : A sermon on " The Exaltation of Christ," by Dr. So-and-so, and "the members were uplifted." That sermon was preached by a man who had to be removed from an M. E. Church in this city because of his wicked conduct. The fact of the matter is this, they who are saying these things have their papers full of these quack advertisements while they write these foolish articles about Zion. ZION HAS NOT TAKEN FROM THE WORLD ONE SINGLE PENNY. During the whole five years that we have printed LEAVES OF HEALING we have not asked the world to pay us a single cent. We have not advertised a single thing. We have simply told the truth of God, and left the paper to win its own way. The other day we published an edition of twenty thousand of one of our weekly papers, and my assistant manager tells me that he will have to publish practically twenty thousand more very soon. I think we will probably sell forty thousands copies of that one edition, before it is two months old. We thank God that after all, wicked as this city and land is, there are thousands and tens of thousands who are welcom- ing the truth that God is giving in and through Zion. (Amen.) I am glad that the Methodist Church is proving what we have said. If they were not proving it, we would be found false witnesses. " Pity 'tis, 'tis true" ; but it is true that the Methodist Church has gone to the Devil. If there is no more need for prayer and that is what Zion is constantly engaged in and if they are to expel every one who believes in Divine Healing and in prayer to God as the Healer of disease, why do they not begin to cut out of their own hymn-books the hymns which teach Divine Healing? DIVINE HEALING IS TAUGHT IN METHODIST HYMNS. Why do they not throw out of the Methodist hymnal, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul"? Thou, O Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find; Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Charles Wesley was not fit to be a Methodist according to the Methodist Episcopal Church South Conference. He ought to be condemned. His hymn ought to be thrown out, and his memory ought to be blasted by that conference, because he said that Christ was the Healer of His people. They had better throw out their very first hymn, "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing," the last verse of which is: Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, Ye dumb, your loosened tongues employ; Ye blind, behold your Saviour come ; And leap, ye lame, for joy. 80 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Why do they not fling that out of their hymnal? Why do they not cut out of their Bibles the words: I am the Lord that healeth thee. I am the Lord, I change not? Why do they not get a new Bible as well as a new hymn- book? They need it? They had better go to the Freemasons, and they will get their Bible and their hymn-book there. They will not find any Christ in that Bible, and they will not find any Christ in that hymnal. That is where they have gone. That Church is no longer Methodist; it is Masonic. It has gone to the Devil, root and branch, and may God save the people who are in it. (Amen.) REAP, FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS OVERRIPE. INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight, profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, in this and all the coming time, for Jesus' sake. TEXT FROM REVELATION 14:15, l6. And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, say- ing, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth ; for her grapes are fully ripe. And another angel came out from the Temple, crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle and reap : for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is overripe. Friends, the harvest of the earth is not only ripe, but it is overripe. You have seen a harvest where the grain is so ripe that it is falling out on the land, and you have seen the eagerness of the farmers to put in their reapers and reap; for, if they delay, much will be lost. So it is today. We must be Swift Witnesses, and Zion must be a sharp threshing instrument having teeth. A sharp sickle of truth must be used, for the harvest must be fully and quickly gath- ered. May God make Zion to go forth with tens of thousands of sharp sickles. (Amen.) A great many people in this city are saying, "We want peace." If you want Divine peace, you will only get it by a right use of the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Jesus said: I am not come to send peace on earth, but a Sword. The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 8l That is the sickle of truth, and now, with the Word of God, Zion must go forth into the harvest fields, where there are two classes of people to be met. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the passages which I have quoted in connection with the very suggestive cartoon by our Brother Champe in the last issue of LEAVES OF HEALING, said: The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade- sprang up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares? And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he saith, Nay; lest haply while we gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. When the disciples came into the house that night they asked the Lord what this parable of the tares meant, and, in the Revised Version, this is the reading: And He answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil : and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels. I desire to make plain to you what I believe is going to happen. There are just two classes of people in this world. The one class is arrayed with God fighting the Devil and all evil, and the other is arrayed with the Devil fighting God and all good. Which side are you on? Voices "God's." Dr. Dowie THE DUTY OF ZION IS, FIRST OF ALL, TO ROOT UP THESE TARES. These tares are the children of the wicked one. God is determined to have every wicked person either into His King- dom or out of this world. There is one thing certain: the wicked are going to be burned by the fire of their own evil passions. There is another thing certain: Zion must go into this field and take out these tares that the Devil has sown. We have to take these Methodist tares out of the Church. We have to take these false doctrines out of the Church. Every man who, in the Church of God, professes to be a Christian and is not a Christian, has to be taken out and shown to all the world as a humbug, a cheat and a hypocrite, and flung into the fire. That is just what has to be done with him. 82 ZION'S HOLY WAR. It is a very hard thing to say, but that is the mission of Zion. But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; arid ye shall go forth and gambol as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the Day that I do make, saith Jehovah of Hosts. The wicked must be trodden down. We have to tread down the betrayer of the Christ of God in His nominal Church. We have to tear them up as well as tread them down, and fling them into the fire. We have to take every apostasy and fling it into the fire, and then we have to gather in the sons of the Kingdom into the garner of God. The fight is on. It is a fight against evil men. It is a fight against evil women. It is a fight against evil spirits. It is a fight against the powers of evil on earth and every fiend in hell. It is a fight in which every angel in heaven is on our side. It is a fight in which every honest and good man on earth will yet fight with Zion. It is a fight to a finish, because this War is going to come to an end. It is going to come to an end by the establishment of the Kingdom of God amongst the rebellious nations of the earth. May God hasten the day! (Amen.) In this harvest field we have to go forth WITHOUT HATRED TO ANY BUT WITH LOVE FOR ALL. A man does not hate his field, when he tears out the weeds to allow^the grain and the wheat to grow. A m'an does not hate his garden, when he goes into his garden and takes out the weeds and helps the flowers and fruits to grow. The weeds must be taken away. In the orchard every para- site in the tree must be destroyed and everything that would affect the tree must be killed. There is a time to kill as well as to make alive, and the parasites of disease in spiritual, in psychical and in physical life must be destroyed, or else this world will wholly go to hell. This is the work which Zion is about. Zion makes no pre- tenses of being friendly to the World, the Flesh and the Devil. We are at War, and those who are at War destroy the enemy's camp. They destroy the enemy's men. . They destroy the enemy's organization. They set on fire everything that they can. They keep at it until the enemy surrenders or perishes. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 83 In this War of the Hosts of Heaven against Hell, we are at war with the sorcerer, and the adulterer, and the false swearer, and those that oppress the hireling in his wages, and the widow and the fatherless, and they that turn aside the stranger from his right, and that fear not Me, saith the Lord of Hosts. Zion is at war with every form of evil. We must fight it within ourselves; within our homes; within our workshops; within our cities, and within the Nation; and we must tell a rebellious world that they can only get mercy upon one condi- tion, and that is unconditional surrender to God. "Oh, Doctor, I no not like to hear you talk like this. "Doctor, have you not any molasses left? (Laughter.) '. "Doctor, have you not any soft soap? "Doctor, have you not any lollypop? "Doctor, have you not something sweet?" Friends, I am entirely through with theological candy stores. I feel that if many of you who are in Zion today had been told the truth thirty or forty years ago, you would have been working for God all that time instead of serving the Devil. Is not that true? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie I am going right on with this plain talk, because you know that is what is needed in Chicago and everywhere. The harvest of the earth is overripe. Let us go in and reap it. Let us go in and save the sinful, and the sick, and the sorrowful who will repent and turn to God. These are the sons of the Kingdom. Oh God, help us to tear out the tares and throw them in bundles into the fire. (Amen.) I am not the author of this prayer, for it was inspired by Jesus, who said: The good seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom; and the "tares are the sons of the evil one ; and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil. I am not the author of it. I am only giving you the dis- tinct interpretation of Jesus Christ. It seems hard that anybody should perish, but it is better for them to perish now, and for mercy to seek and find them in the hereafter, than for this world to be continually cursed by the presence of those who deliberately reject God and will not serve Him. That man or that nation who will not hear the prophet of God who speaks for God shall perish. The time has come. THE VOICE OF CHRIST IN RINGING THROUGH THE EARTH. Those who are in the graves are hearing His Voice and are coming forth. Many are rising up to praise Him and serve Him, to love Him, who have been in sin and in the bondage of evil all their lives. 84 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I pray you now today to surrender to God your spirits, your souls, and your bodies. All do it this minute. CALL. Every one of you who have already done this, and all who want to do it, stand to your feet and make confession and con- secration. Stand up and give yourselves to your God. (With scarce an exception the entire audience arose.) PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right. Give me power to overcome. Take the evil out of my heart. Take all evil appetite and impure desire away and make me clean. Make me a son of the Kingdom. (Women, say, Make me a daughter of the Kingdom.) Give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may be pure; that I may be a part of the great harvest that is being reaped and taken into the heavenly garner. Give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may do my part in bring- ing in from the fields of sin ^11 I can of the good and honest and true- hearted who receive the Word of God, and are determined to obey it. Help me, Oh God, to live a good life, praising Thee, praising Thy dear Son; obeying Thee in all things, for Jesus' sake. Amen. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Dr. Dowie Did you mean it? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you live it? Voices" Yes." Dr. Dowie Then sing "Sin No More." After the singing of this song the meeting was closed with the following BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will dp it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. PRELUDE SOME INCIDENTS OF THE HOLY WAR. SERMON ZION'S WITNESS AGAINST THE ADULTERERS. THE Three Months' Holy War which Zion is now waging against the concentrated hosts of hell in Chicago is being fought especially along the lines laid down in the fifth verse of the third chapter of the Book of the Prophet Malachi, and is, essentially, aWarfpr God against the "sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and ^against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not the Lord of Hosts." Zion's witnessing against the sorcerer has been continual and unrelenting, during the years of her existence, and the General Overseer, for many years previous to the formation of the Christian Catholic Church, spoke in no uncertain terms against this particular device of the Devil for the damning of mankind. Yet, since the opening of the Holy War, this wit- nessing has been more vigorous and more effective, as the howls of pain in the ranks of the sorcerers indicates. On Lord's Day, October 22, 1899, the opening of the fourth week of the War, the General Overseer began special witness- ing against the Adulterers. The events of the third week of the War had wonderfully supplemented the faithful work of Zion's Seventies in calling the attention of the people of Chicago to Zion's Onward Move- ment, and the splendid audience, which nearly filled the vast Central Zion Tabernacle, gave every indication of the most lively interest. Among those present were about two score of medical students from the West Side Medical Colleges, who, awed no doubt by the unexpected array of the thousands of Zion's members and friends, listened respectfully to the General Overseer's scathing, sarcastic description of the disgraceful rioting which they and their fellows participated in at the War-85 86 ZION'S HOLY WAR. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 87 West Side Zion Tabernacle on the previous Wednesday even- ing, and to his fearless throwing down the gauntlet to fair and gentlemanly debate on the merits of Man's Way of Healing versus God's Way of Healing. It is needless to add that the challenge was not then accepted, nor has it been in the nearly two weeks which have since elapsed. After summarily disposing of the ludicrously impotent froth- ings of a deposed Elder, the General Overseer began the forc- ing home, with tremendous power, of the mighty truths of God's Word concerning the fearful sin of adultery. The burden of this, the first of the series on this subject, was a witnessing against the adulterous sins fostered by the divorce courts. A. w. N. Central Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Afternoon, October 22, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 44. The Scripture lesson was read from Malachi third and from the Gospel of St. John, eighth chapter. Prayer was offered by Dr. Dowie, at the close of which he delivered the following prelude: SOME INCIDENTS OF THE HOLY WAR. I first of all desire to thank God for His goodness to us during the past week. I need not recall to you matters which have been a topic of very widespread interest in the city, and have filled the newspapers to such an extent that I notice fre- quently lately that Dowie and Zion have been placed before the war in South Africa. (Laughter.) It is quite apparent to any mind, I suppose, that the "Holy War 7 ' in Chicago is very much more interesting to the people than the carnal warfare in the Transvaal. First, I hold, before the whole city, and before the whole of America and the world, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois responsible for the recent riotous conduct of students whose colleges are affiliated with both these Uni- versities. I hold the professors and teachers in these colleges guilty of conspiracy in permitting notices to be posted and encourag- ing the young men to act in the riotous manner which has brought down upon them the batons of the police. I charge these professors and doctors with being arrant cowards. They are afraid to deal with this matter in a manner which brave and honest and intelligent men will always adopt. The argu- ments they use are the arguments which they use continually in their professions: namely, filthy drugs. They desire to 88 ZION'S HOLY WAR. stupify the people, even in public meeting places, and to use the murderous knife which is so often in their hands. I give the challenge here today, in the plainest possible way. CHALLENGE TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF CHICAGO. This is a matter not for bludgeons, not for stones, not for iodoform and assafetida. This matter is not to be decided by yells and by whooping. Let the doctors of the medical schools select any professor; or, if they think the professors are not eloquent and bold enough to talk, let them select any parson in the ministry of this city, and let the matter be decided by fair argument before the people. I challenge them to debate this question: Which is the best, Divine Healing or Human Healing? (Applause.) Let them remove this question from the region of disgrace- ful and riotous proceedings, and let them move it to the public platform. In this place, which holds three thousand three hundred persons, they can have the platform. I will give to the man who debates with me an equal length of time. He shall have half an hour or whatever may be decided, and I half an hour. Then we will fight this thing out upon the ground of fact, upon the ground of wise and intellectual conflict; not upon such a base ground as that to which they have taken it the ground of anarchy. Can anything be settled by iodoform or assafetida? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Can it be settled by stones thrown at a Zion Tabernacle. Voices" No." Dr. Dowie If there is anything to be settled, can it not be brought to the test? I am willing, if they will not accept this platform, to pay one-half the cost, and take the Auditorium. You put up your Goliath, and let him come up there with all his armor. (Applause.) You bring all that can be said for medical science, and then let me present the facts. You bring the victories that you have won. You can bring your wit- nesses. Then let me bring my witnesses. (Amen. Applause.) That is fair, is it not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Of course it is. COMMISERATION FOR THE DECEIVED AND MISGUIDED MEDICAL STUDENTS. I am very sorry for any of these young men who came to grief as they did. Nothing grieved me more than that the police, who certainly did their duty excellently and well, should have been compelled to have forced some sense into their heads by breaking them. (Laughter.) I am sorry for ZION'S HOLY WAR. 89 that. I am very sorry, because the mothers, the fathers, of these boys, who have been sent to this city to be educated at much self-sacrifice, will grieve that their sons have been guilty of such shameful conduct. I blame the professors who permitted them to put up these notices, and to hold meetings, and to conspire. For this I blame the faculties of the Universities, as well as the Colleges under their control, for not lifting a finger or saying a word to keep their students back. They rather tacitly helped in these disgraceful, riotous proceedings. I charge them before all America as being disgraceful cowards. We, thank God, went to our work in the West Side Zion Tabernacle and did it. The boys who were inside got on exceedingly well with us, except now and then they would rub their feet upon the floor. When I suggested that all their brains were in their boots, they stopped. (Applause and laughter.) The boys and I got on well. I spoke to them for nearly two hours, and was not interrupted five continuous minutes, was I? A Voice" No." Dr. Dowie I had a capital time with the boys, and when they went away I invited them to come again. I like the boys. I can remember when I was a boy myself, and a student at college, and a member of a university. I can remember a good many things which happened at that time; but I never saw such foolish proceedings upon the part of per- sons who are supposed to have some education and gentleman- liness. When they sneered at that remark of mine the other night, I apologized to them for even having supposed that they had any education or even gentlemanliness. The boys saw the point and had some fun over that. But we got on very well. It was the boys who were not inside, who were not under my what do they call it? hypnotic influence. (Laughter.) These were the rioters. I am perfectly sure that I have never been a speaker to send people asleep, have I? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie They brought with them iodoform, and things of that kind which put people to sleep. I did not appear in the courts against any of these young men nor any of the older men. I did not ask for any vengeance to be taken upon them. I did nothing whatever in the way of retaliation. I repaired all the windows, a dozen or more, which had been smashed. I had the place cleaned and everything put in order, and we had a most delightful service this morn- ing. 90 Z ION'S HOLY WAR. But Zion has "come to the same conclusion that Inspector John T. Shea has, that the time has come when THE STRONG ARM OF THE LAW MUST BE INVOKED TO PRESERVE PUBLIC PEACE. The right of free speech which is being denied by the uni- versities on the North and West Sides of this city, shall be maintained by the citizens and by their representatives. (Applause.) Once more these universities will have to be taught a lesson that universities have had to be taught so often by the common people: that the cultivated men have to be kept in order by the good, sound common-sense of the people. (Applause.) It was not the Universities of Yale or Harvard which put down slavery. It was not the Universities of Yale or Harvard which found the great man who led and guided the Nation through the stormy years of war and darkness and tempest. It was the common man, the common man taken from this State, Abraham Lincoln (loud applause), the rail-splitter and country lawyer, who never entered a university and never had any scholarship. These young men have to get some sense into their heads, even if they are broken. (Applause.) But may God grant that their hearts may be broken, and that their heads may be enlightened, and that the leaders in the universities may remem- ber that this matter of Divine Healing is not going to be settled by conspiracies against our life and our liberty. (Amen.) If I am wrong, surely they have many on their side. They have had the whole field for all these centuries. Surely, with all the ministers on their side, with all the newspapers on their side; surely, with all the backing of these great and mighty pundits upon both sides of the city, they might leave free speech to one poor, little man. (Applause.) MOB VIOLENCE IS A PRACTICAL CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS. It shows how terrified they are. They feel that their "craft" is in danger. The challenge has gone out. Let me see whether they will accept it. I will be willing to debate that matter on the stage of the Auditorium with any delegate whom they may call to represent them. I will take it for one night, for two nights, for three nights, or for a whole week if they like. When we have gotten through I think I shall have completely routed them. (Applause.) If I do not, if I fail, if I am completely discomfited in that great fight, will they not have a glorious victory? If they want to bring their witnesses to prove how success- ful these gentlemen are in treating the sick, I shall be very happy to give one whole night to their witnesses, and I will ZION'S HOLY WAR. QI take another night to mine, or I will take them the same night. I will take mine now. All who have been healed through faith in Jesus Christ in this meeting, stand. (About two thou- sand arose.) That is a very goodly company. I am quite sure it must be fully two thousand. I will say concerning the challenge I have made, that I am willing to pay one-half the expenses if they will pay the other half. I am willing to take one-half of the tickets and give them away to my friends, and they can give the other half to their friends, or we might charge just enough to cover the cost of the hall. I will be very glad to arrange the matter in any way that they please in that respect. Let them bring forth their Goliath, and let us have a real good old-time fight with the champion of these Philistines. Now concerning another thing. THE FABLE OF THE MICE AND THE BUZZ-SAW. Have you ever seen a great big buzz-saw at work? Voices" Yes." Dr. Dowie Have you ever seen it plow, like a "sharp threshing instrument having teeth," through a great big log of timber? Do you not think that Zion-at-work is something like a buzz-saw? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Did you ever see a lot of little mice running about a saw-bed? Did you ever see some of the mice get upon the log? Did you ever hear one of the mice whose name is Fair say, "Buzz-saw, stop! If you don't stop, I'll bite you"? (Applause and laughter.) Don't you think it might be bad for the mouse? Do you think the General Overseer will stop the buzz-saw? That is all I have to say about Fair. (Laughter and ap- plause.) Any member of the Christian Catholic Church in this build- ing who sympathizes with George Armor Fair, stand to his or her feet. (No one arose.) Any one in this whole house, just speak out and say that you sympathize with him, and we will know just how many sympathizers he has. Any one in this house who is a member of the Christian Catholic Church, stand on your feet and say you sympathize. We would protect you whilst you spoke. We would like to see you. Is there one? All who are absolutely ashamed of his wicked conduct, stand to their feet. (As far as could be seen, no member of the Church remained sitting.) Have you confidence in your leader still? Audience (unanimously) "Yes." 92 ZSON'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie All who say the opposite, say No. (No re- sponse.) The wicked lawyers who are looking on can take note of that. (Loud applause.) All the mice who want to bite the buzz-saw, take note. (Laughter.) I think I shall let the buzz-saw work a little. Some of the mice who are always at it are to be found in the Daily News office. I desire to call your attention to one of the innumerable lies of the week, and let that be AN EXCELLENT CRITERION OF THE DAILY NEWS' VERACITY. I will show just what confidence you can place in the press. Lies innumerable have been told this week. But one of these was told in the greatest detail, and was a very severe attack on Dr. Dowie, according to the enemy. I will be quite fair to the Daily News, and will read their attack from the clippings in my scrap-book. I have such an interesting scrap-book. (Laughter.) You have not any idea how much fun I get out of it. I have a good deal more fun than they have. I have all the fun. The other fellows do not have any. On Tuesday, October I7th, there appeared in the Daily News this attack. I will read to you the attack and then I will read to you something else: GENTRY SCORES DR. DOWIE. PHYSICIAN PROMINENT AMONG "DIVINE HEALERS " CALLS THE LEADER OF ZION A COUNTERFEIT SCHEME IS MAKING OF MONEY. Speaker Declares That Dowie Has Tried to Pile up a Fortune Makes Charges After Full Investigation. A man who stands high in the counsels of " Divine Healers," and who has hitherto refused to criticise " Dr." John Alexander Dowie, has for the first time publicly declared his belief that u Dr." Dowie is a counterfeit and a money-maker. Dr. William D. Gentry, who is familiar with Dowie's methods, and practices "Divine Healing" after a system of his own, having a mission chapel at 6148 Wentworth Avenue, yesterday denounced the methods of " Dr." Dowie as false to all true principles of healing according to the Scrip- tures, as quackery performed under pretense of Divine inspiration, and as inspired wholly by a desire for money-making. FORMERLY A WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR. The force of Dr. Gentry's argument lies in the fact that he is believed to be a sincere "divine healer," and up to the time he began his present work was a well-known physician. About five years ago Dr. Gentry was attracted to a study of Divine Healing in its different phases. He left his profession, and although Dowie tried to bring him under his influence, he refused to have anything to do with the leader of B Zion." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 93 "The Rev. John Alexander Bowie," he said, "does not possess the power of God. He is nothing more or less than a counterfeit. He claims to heal men by direct inspiration from on high, but all the power he pos- sesses is a sort of personal magnetism, a very cheap and common human faculty. There are thousands of men in this country who could influence people just as powerfully as Dowie and gain just as infamously wide repu- tation for inspiration, if they chose to falsify spiritual things in this man- ner. HAS INVESTIGATED DOWIE SYSTEM. " I know these statements to be facts from my own personal knowledge. I investigated the whole Dowie system from top to bottom. I know the system to be rotten. That man is engaged in Divine Healing work solely for personal gains. He is making a fortune out of his operations, religious and otherwise. Any one of sufficient genius for money-making could do the same. He calls great numbers of people together, holds them by the force of his personal magnetism, and then charges them good prices. MONEY-MAKING THE MOTIVE. " It is a counterfeit system all through. It is organized and conducted solely to make a fortune and Dowie has made one, how large I dare not say. And this man pretends to heal through God. The Lord preserve us from all such counterfeits of the truth." The calm and carefully prepared discourse of Dr. Gentry had deep effect upon his audience and expressions such as "That's so!" and "Amen!" were heard at every sentence. After the discourse many came to Dr. Gen- try and expressed their approval of the stand he had taken. That is the Daily News I call it the Daily News Lyre. Here is Dr. Gentry's letter: ALL FOR CHRIST. 6657 WENTWORTH AVENUE, CHICAGO, October 10, 1899. REV. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE. Dear Brother in Christ: My attention has been called to the out- rageous lies published in the evening News of yesterday, representing me as having denounced you as a counterfeit, etc. I feel that it is my duty to inform you that there is not one word of truth in anything published. My remarks were upon an entirely different topic, and I did not refer to you in what I said. Reporters have repeatedly been after me to say something against you, but I have never done so, nor will I ever do so in any antago- nizing spirit. I have never antagonized you or your work. In my preach- ing I have confined myself to the Gospel of Christ, and know nothing but Christ and Him crucified. Very truly yours in Christ, WILLIAM D. GENTRY. A Voice "I was at his meeting this morning, and he said the very same thing." i Dr. Dowie Take that story as an illustration. The whole^ of that alleged discourse was made in the office of the Daily "Lyre." Not one word was said by Dr. Gentry, and that is the fact in hundreds of similar cases. The attack has been made all the time upon Zion's Finan- cial Institutions. I am very thankful to tell you that for every thousand dollars Zion City Bank had a month after it opened, it now has in its possession more than eight thousand dollars. (Applause.) If you can show another bank that has grown at the same rate, I shall be very glad to know it. I tell the ene- 94 ZJON'S HOLY WAR. mies of Zion that all they are doing is but strengthening Zion's Financial Institutions. (Amen. Applause.) DISCONTENTED INVESTORS INVITED TO SELL THEIR STOCK AT PAR WITH SIX PER CENT INTEREST. Mr. Fair has publicly made the statement that he regretted that he had made an investment in Zion Land and Investment Association of seven hundred dollars, and he spoke disrespect- fully and falsely of its probable value. The moment I saw that, I directed the Cashier of the Bank to write this letter on my behalf: ZION CITY BANK. 1300 MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, October 20, 1899. MR. GEORGE ARMOR FAIR, No. 1344 Somerset Street, Philadelphia, Penn. Dear Sir : Having read in today's Inter Ocean your reported state- ment concerning certain investments in Zion Land and Investment Asso- ciation by yourself and others whom you represented, I am instructed by the General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church to inform you that he desires me to purchase for him your stock; also the others, whom you represent, if they so desire it, and will pay the par value for same, together with six per cent interest added from date of issue, provided certificates are presented properly assigned to him. Hoping this will meet with an immediate response, I am, Respectfully yours, (Signed) CHAS. J. BARNARD, Cashier. This letter was sent to him in this city, but he had left, and it has been sent after him. Some of these miserable liars say that they may begin suit against us to recover the money which has been invested in stock. If there is a single investor in Zion Land and Invest- ment Association who is discontented with his investment, I will buy in his stock at par value with six per cent interest added. (Applause.) Do you see the fun of that thing, Mr. Lawyer? (Laughter.) I will ask another question. This is a large audience of friends, and, of course, I know there are some foes. I will ask if there is a single holder of Zion Land and Investment Asso- ciation stock, or Zion City Bank stock, who wants to sell his stock or her stock, will you please to arise and say so? (No one arose.) THERE ARE NO DISCONTENTED INVESTORS IN THIS AUDIENCE. The offer I have made to Mr. Fair will remain open for a week to every shareholder in Zion City Bank or Zion Land and Investment Association; I will buy every dollar of their stock. (Applause.) That is no bluff. You can come and get it at Zion City Bank. I do not say that I will leave that open all the time, for this reason and now I am going to give myself away after ZION'S HOLY WAR. 95 this week I shall be using the money that has been placed in my hands for the purchase of Zion City Land, thank God. (Applause.) Is that true, Deacon Judd? Deacon Judd" That is true." Dr. Dowie Is that true, Deacon Sloan? Deacon Sloan "That is true." Dr. Dowie Is that true, Deacon Barnard? Deacon Barnard "That is true." Dr. Dowie I leave that offer open for a week. Let it be telegraphed now by the associated liars to all the country. (Applause.) I want them to telegraph that Dr. Dowie said upon the platform of Zion Tabernacle that he would buy over the counter of Zion City Bank every share of stock, and pay one hundred cents on the dollar for it at six per cent interest. I ask again, is there one in Zion who wants to sell his stock? There has not been a single application made by a discon- tented shareholder for the return of his money. I am glad to be able to leave this offer open for a week. That settles you fellows as a business proposition, and it knocks out every cunning lawyer. (Applause and laughter.) IF DISCONTENT EXISTED AT PHILADELPHIA, IT WAS NOT KNOWN AT HEADQUARTERS. If there is any discontent in the Church in Philadelphia, it was never made known to us, not even' by Mr. Fair, until he appeared and told the buzz-saw to slop working or he would bite it. Poor young man! I said to my good wife, who is on the platform today for the first time for some months ancj may God bless her (Amen) I said to her, "What do you think of this?" She said, "You know, John, the first time he made application some two years ago, when you refused to receive him, I told you I was very glad, because I thought he was top- heavy." (Laughter.) The poor young man's head has been swollen tremendously since I inaugurated him, less than three months ago, into the charge at Philadelphia. I am afraid I am responsible for giv- ing the Devil an opportunity to swell his head. The young man does not seem to have any sense at all. I am so sorry for him. I am so sorry for them all. If there has been a single discontented member, Head- quarters does not know it. Deacon Anderson, you are the General Recorder of the Christian Catholic Church ; has there been one single resigna- tion from Philadelphia? Deacon Anderson " No, Doctor, there has not." Dr. Dowie Has there been any expression of discontent, so far as you know? Deacon Anderson " Not that I have heard of." 96 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie I do not believe he was really the delegate of anybody but himself. But if he were the delegate of any who had been deceived by him, we have sent down our delegates; we have taken him from his position, and we have placed the Church under exceedingly good care, thank God. (Ame. The hatred to Zion of the officials of the Methodist Episcopal Church has been intensifying year by year On October 7, 1899, the Annual Conference *eld in Oakland. Cal. expelled from the ministry and membership ot the Methodist Episcopal Church South " two of its best ministers against *hom there was no other charge than distributing Dowie literature namely LEAVES OF HEALING, and A VOICE FROM ZION. which they declared to be contrary to our articles ot religion." This was a falsehood tor there is not a line In their -articles of religion" contrary to Zion teaching But although there are large numbers ot true Christians m their Churches, yet as Organizations the Methodist Episcopal phurches (North and South) have departed from God. and are gone- to the Devil denying Wesley's teachings and God's Wor protecting the abominable things shown In this cartoon. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 109 I am to speak to you tonight concerning the Everlasting Gospel, and I read to you these words in the fourteenth chap- ter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and the sixth and seventh verses: TEXT. And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an Eternal Gos- pel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people; and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give Him glory; for the hour of His judgment is come: and wor- ship Him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. At the Cathedral of Milan in Italy there is a wonderful entrance. That entrance is beneath three great arches, on which there are three most beautiful carvings and suggestive inscriptions. Under these three great arches, as you pass, you see, first, an angel bending over you as you enter. He bears in his hand a full-blown rose, the petals of which are falling, falling, fall- ing. With a deep, far-insight he looks at you, and out of his mouth there come the words: So significant is the suggestion of the falling of the petals of the full-blown rose. Its beauty is passing away. It has pleased but for a mo- ment. It is the symbol of this passing life. "All that pleases is but for a moment." Then you pass under the next arch. There an angel holds out a cross, the emblem of sorrow and shame and of a bleeding Sacrifice, of a sinless Christ. As the angel looks at you there is a smile on his face: for he is pointing to another angel,' and he is saying, as he shows you the cross and bids you to take it: "ALL THAT GRIEVES us is BUT FOR A MOMENT." How true Brief life is here our portion Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. "All that grieves us is but for a moment." Then you pass under the third arch. There with triumph an angel is holding out to you a crown, as if he would place it upon your brow, and he is saying: "THAT ONLY ENDURES WHICH is ETERNAL." The crown he holds out is the Crown of Everlasting Life. My brothers and my sisters, these three emblems are before us. The passing vanities of earth, the pleasures of this life, are but for a moment. The sorrows of this life to the Chris- tian who bears the cross and endures the shame are but for a 1 10 ZION'S HOLY WAR. moment. The Crown which the Everlasting Gospel brings, the Crown of God's loving kindness and tender mercy, the Crown of His forgiveness, the Crown of Eternal Life which endures forever, that Crown tonight I bring you in the Name of my Lord. It is within your grasp, and I bid you who are, with the muck-rake of life, pulling together the sticks and straw and counting it a wonderful thing that you can rake in some gold or silver, or some dross of life, look up! The angel is standing over you tonight and saying: "Take the Crown of Life; the Everlasting Gospel brings it to you." And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an Eternal Gos- pel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people; and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give Him glory; for the hour of His judgment is come: and wor- ship Him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. This is the Gospel. Oh, what a wondrous Gospel it is, and how certain it is to triumph. The night seems long, and it is often very dark, but it is not starless; for God is still God, and His love never fails us. Christ is Eternal, and the faith and the hope and the love of this Eternal Gospel are with us tonight. Let me tell you what that Gospel is. Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. The command of God, as His own Son trod this earth when He uttered this Gospel, was, first of all, in one word, REPENT! There are two words which stand forever in the front of the Gospel: Repent! Believe! Repent, turn from sin, turn from folly, turn from self, turn from the madness of supposing that you can climb your way to heaven, or that you can ever satisfy yourself by drinking of the naphthaline river of accursed passion. Remember that you must repent and turn to God. STORY OF THE RABBI ELIEZER's ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN ON REPENTANCE. " Rabbi," said one of the disciples of the great Rabbi Eliezer one day; "Rabbi, thou hast spoken so that thou hast stirred my heart; tell me how long before he dies must a man repent in order to get into heaven." The rabbi looked at the eager young face, and said, " My son, one day; only one day." Oh, the young man was so happy, He went away and began to go into his folly and into his sin. He thought, as the rabbi had said, that only one day of repentance was needed. He ZION'S HOLY WAR. Ill began to think after he had passed a few days in folly, " I wonder what the rabbi meant? One day before I die I am to repent." Suddenly, by his side, one day, a companion fell dead in a drunken fit in the midst of a carousal. He stood and looked at that companion's pale face, and the blood that had oozed from his heart dead! dead! That companion who had come with him into that place so full of life, dead! dead! "Oh, he is dead, and he did not repent! There was not one day given to him. Oh, suppose that I die tonight! I have not repented." He came back to the rabbi the next day and said, "Rabbi, tell me how I shall know the day before I die." "My son," said the rabbi, "no man can tell thee." "Then how is it that thou sayest I can be saved if I repent one day before I die? Thou hast tormented me. I do not know which day it is." "Then, my son," said the rabbi, "repent now, lest it should be today." Oh, what a folly it is to prepare for everything except the judgment seat of God! What a folly it is to pre- pare for everything which may be except death and the judgment, which mustbel PHILIP DE-NERl'S HEARTSEARCHING QUESTION AND WHAT THEN? Philip De-Neri was one of the wisest men who ever lived in the Christian Church, albeit he lived in the Church of Rome. That Church, while there is much in it which is sinful, has had many glorious saints of God. Philip De-Neri was famous for the good counsel he gave to young men. One day there came, from one of the Italian provinces, such a lovely, handsome, noble-looking youth. He bore letters from men of high rank and great learning and of great wealth and noble station. He presented himself to the great Father De-Neri. The father looked at him and said, "Young man, I am so glad to get these good letters telling me what a good youth and student you have been. Tell me what thou hast come to Rome for." The young man, pleased to get the interview, looked at the good man and said, "I have come to Rome to study law." "That is good that is a good profession. Well, what dost thou expect if thou dost study law industriously? What suc- cess dost thou expect?" The young man replied, "Well, father, if I study law suc- cessfully, I may become a counselor." "Very good, that is true." "I may argue cases and win them, and help the oppressed." "That is very good, my son a noble ambition and what then? Suppose thou dost succeed and art a good counselor, what then?" 112 ZION'S HOLY WAR. "Then," he said, "I may become a judge, if I am good and acceptable to my king." "That is true, and it is very likely that a young man like you will make a very successful pleader and perhaps become a judge. But what then, my son?" "Then I will be getting old, and I might become a king's counselor and take high rank." "That is good, and that is a right and good ambition and what then, my son?" "Oh, then I should be a very old man, and I hope I should live with my family in peace and comfort all the rest of my life." "Very good, young man and what then?" "Then I should just live on like that." "And what then?" "Well, father, I suppose I must die then." "And what then? After death, what then?" After the joys of earth, After its songs of mirth, After its hours of light, After its dreams so bright What then? Only an empty name, Only a weary frame, Only an aching heart, Only a conscience smart. After that empty name, After that weary frame, After that aching heart, After that conscience smart What then? Only a sad farewell To a world loved too well; Only a silent bed With the forgotten dead. After that sad farewell To a world loved too well ; After that silent bed With the forgotten dead What then? Oh, then the Judgment Throne ; Oh, then the last hope gone ; Oh, then the Day of Wrath Oh, then the Second Death. Lord God of truth and grace, Help us that wrath to shun, Lest we be banished from Thy face, Lest we be all undone. IS THERE NO WAY TO SHUN THE DAY OF WRATH? Is there no way by which I may live so that the judgment seat shall be, of all places in the Universe, the place. I to be? ZION'S HOLY WAR. 113 "Yes, there is." "How?" By receiving and obeying the Everlasting Gospel. By accepting and living the Gospel which bids you tonight to repent of your sins you have committed against your own bodies, your own souls, your own spirits, as well as those against your God and your fellowman. Repent! Repent of the wasted life! Repent of the wasted hours! Repent of the hatred for good ! Repent of the association with evil! Repent of the evil things which you have committed! Remember that God who made you sees you; that His eye strikes through the darkest shades of night, and that all your hearts and actions lie all open to His sight. Turn to God, and turn to good, for your God and Father is a God of Infinite Love, and the Christ who brought this Gospel bids you to believe Him, to trust Him. Was there ever so safe a Guide? Was there ever so kind a friend? Was there ever so wise a Counselor? Was there ever so mighty a Saviour, Healer, Cleanser or Keeper? Is the Christ dead? Are His bones or His dust in the Syrian tomb, or does He live? If He is dead, the light has gone out of life, and there is no hope, no help, no light; nothing anywhere but one great chasm of horror and darkness, without one single ray of light through all eternity. But He lives! He lives, He ever lives! Christ hath opened up the way by which we may shun the Day of Wrath. Because He lives we shall live. I desire to tell you tonight of the Way of Life. Repent! Believe! Obey! Fear God and keep God's commandments and worship Him who made the earth, the seas, the fountains, the waters. God who sent His own Son to redeem you. You may think the world is very sweet, and very beautiful, but have you ever felt THE COLD CHILL OF THE TOUCH OF THE WORLD? "Oh, no," you say; "the world is warm. I love the world, because it is all life; it is all light. I love its dances; I love its follies; I love the fleshly delights in which I find my gratifi- cation. I love wine; I love women; I love wealth; I love music; I love the dance; I love these things." Listen! Listen! Every cultivated man has read in Plutarch's Lives of one who lived in ancient Athens, a wonderful man, Pericles. Pericles was not only a great statesman, orator and administrator, but a lover of his people, a good, great military genius. He was all these in one, and a man of great beauty and attraction of character. All admired Pericles, and he became the head of the Athenian State. 1 14 ZION'S HOLY WAR. One day a dark shadow crept over Greece. It crept over Athens. It crept over the Acropolis, and over the Parthenon, and shadowed all the gods. It crept over the beautiful statue of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. That cloud settled down upon Athens, and brought desolation and despair into the homes. It was a cloud of death; it was a cloud of plague. It entered into home after home, and many thousands were sick and died. But Pericles, upright, apparently unmoved, went about the business of the State. He never wept a tear, although his dearest died. The counselors in the State died, the people died; yet he attended to the affairs of State calmly, gave orders for the burial, and went about his duties. They all admired Pericles. His heart was so calm, and his self-control so great. One day the plague, the dark shadow, entered his own home, and one after another died. Yet Pericles shed not a tear. At last the plague laid its deadly hand upon Paralus, his only son, and Pericles stood aghast; for all his hopes were centered in that lovely youth. Paralus grew worse, and the agonies of death came. At last Paralus lay still in death. Still Pericles shed not a tear. POIGNANT GRIEF OF PERICLES AT THE DEATH OF HIS SON. They laid out the body upon the bier, folded the hands upon the breast, and waited for Pericles, as was the custom of the Greeks, to bring the funeral garland and lay it upon the brow of his dead son. Pericles shed not a tear. He took up the funeral garland and advanced to the bier in the presence of all his friends. He laid the funeral garland upon the head of his son, and as he did it his fingers felt the cold, chill touch of death. His son was dead. He would never more see those lips move, those eyes open. He was dead. Then he burst into tears and cried, "Oh gods, why did ye take him and leave me? Why did ye not take me and leave him? He was my treasure, my all!" And he cast himself down upon the earth with all the cry of a heathen's despair. Ah, Pericles' treasure was there. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. If your treasure is only a thing of earth, even if it be the sweetest woman or the noblest man that lived, and it is gone, and that is all you have oh, what a despair. If there is nothing beyond, if Paralus is not to go into the heaven before you, and there is no Christ and no God, and only the dark river of Styx, and the awful darkness of the land of shadows where the darkness is felt, the heart simply breaks with woe, what despair! Is that all? It is all you can have if all your heart has been here. You are going out into the night ZION'S HOLY WAR. 115 But, friends, if your heart has been fixed on things above, and you have lived for God, and you have felt His love, and the thrill of the Divine indwelling has inspired your breast; if you have loved and served the Christ, if you have minis- tered, then if your loved ones should pass away, one by one, you would say, ,Not lost, but gone before. You would know that you would meet them again; for Christ has burst the bands of death, and taken to Himself the glorified of all the ages. Heaven is open to those who have received, believed and obeyed the Everlasting Gospel. CALL. Every man and woman in this house who desires to obey that Gospel, stand. (The greater part of the audience arose.) PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be. Help me to bring my sin, my sorrow, my sickness, my spirit, my soul, my body unto Thee. Cleanse me and make me pure. Help me to believe and help me to obey the Everlasting Gospel of salvation and healing and holiness, and take me to heaven. Make me useful while I live, helping the sinful and the sick and the sorrowing, for Jesus' sake. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) After the hymn "Sin No More" had been sung, the meet- ing was closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION S VISION OF THE BLESSED HOPE AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Titus 2:11-13. War-ii6 ZION'S HOLY WAR. OPENING OF SOUTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLE, LORD'S DAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1899. PRELUDE WELCOME TO SOUTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLE. SERMON THE BEAUTY, GLORY AND POWER OF JESUS THE CHRIST. FROM the spacious platform to the door, from wall to wall, the magnificent floor space of the new South Side Zion Tabernacle was crowded with an audience of silent, deeply- impressed thousands as Zions White-robed Choir, with stately grace, marched the full length of the great edifice, singing Dean Alford's glorious processional, "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand," and mounted the splendidly-arranged choir gallery. Thus, after a week of the most bitter persecution, which ended in one case in bloodshed, marked, as well, by glorious victories, Zion opened on the South Side of Chicago a Zion Tabernacle with seats for three thousand people and standing- room for five hundred more. Outside thousands stood for hours waiting for an opportunity to enter, and many came, saw the crowds outside, and went away disappointed. The eloquent and powerful address by the General Over- seer on this occasion brought conviction to many a heart. Many a face, at first openly sneering or idly curious, grew graver and more thoughtful as the glorious Beauty, Glory and Power of Jesus the Christ was portrayed, and when the call to repentance, confession, obedience and consecration was made, many arose and with hearts aglow gave themselves to God. A. w. N. South Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Afternoon, October 29, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 44: Oh wondrous Name, by prophets heard Long years before His birth; They saw Him coming from afar, The Prince of Peace on earth. War 117 118 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie then read in the Inspired Word of God in the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ according to St. Mark, in the thirteenth chapter. Prayer was then offered by Dr. Dowie, after which he said: WELCOME TO SOUTH SIDE ZION TABERNACLE. My brothers and sisters: I desire very heartily to welcome you to this new Zion Tabernacle. I am not a stranger to many hundreds and indeed thou- sands of you who are now present, for I recognize a very large proportion of my own regular congregation who meet in Cen- tral Zion Tabernacle every Lord's Day, in which place we seat about three thousand three hundred. Sometimes we have had four thousand five hundred persons present, especially when the papers have well advertised us. When they have been saying naughty things about us, the people have come together and expressed their interest and their sympathy. Central Zion Tabernacle has had within its walls sometimes as many as twelve thousand attendances in one week. I sup- pose the greater proportion of you have been in some of the Zion Tabernacles. While I cannot, of course, in so large an audience descry every face, I see many hundreds and possibly thousands of strangers here today. We give you hearty welcome, and say, "Grace, mercy and peace be with all who love our Lord Jesus in sincerity." We are here to do good. We are here to preach the Ever- lasting Gospel, and preach it we shall while there is breath in this body. You can find in the current number of LEAVES OF HEALING an official letter from my pen, which was written yesterday morning at seven o'clock, after a hard night's work. I had been so greatly refreshed by my experiences at Ham- mond, Indiana, that I was able to sit up all night. (Laughter. Applause.) I can only say to you that although I know because I felt them that some of the murderous missiles thrown struck me, yet immediately after being struck, the pain had passed away. I have not felt a single pain since. (Amen.) In fact, I am feeling so wondrously happy that, like David, I feel I could leap over a wall and run through a troop. (Laughter.) I was told that there were boys came to serenade me last night in Zion Home; but I never heard them: for I was sound asleep when the police dispersed them. They were medical students, those interesting young gentlemen whose seniors are asking for legislation which would place the whole people in the hands of doctors from the cradle to the grave. They are working to get laws so that the baby cannot be born without ZION'S HOLY WAR. IIQ them, nobody can die without them, and that it will be wicked and illegal to live without them. These interesting gentlemen lined up on La Salle Street last night and smashed the windows of the cars just in order to show how highly educated they were, and how exceedingly well prepared they were to take your children and yourselves in hand at the proper time. These are the coming medical men. You can see that they were properly engaged yesterday in illustrating that which I know to be the fact, that their brains are principally at the bottoms of their legs. (Applause.) I am very sorry for the community which is to be handed over to them, if legislation at Springfield can do it. ZION WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO MEDICAL OPPRESSION. No legislation ever enacted at Springfield can give the medical fraternity the power over Zion from the cradle to the grave. (Applause.) We are going to put our spirits and our souls and our bodies into the hands of Him who gave them to us, and He will keep them. (Amen.) He will heal them, and He has done so. We bless His Holy Name. I feel very kindly to everybody . I feel kindly to the press which treats me so constantly with cruelty and wicked calumny. May God have mercy upon that generation of vipers, the modern scribes. May He have mercy upon the people, and soon rescue the press from the hands of these filthy monsters; from those who are stinking with tobacco and liquor, who are doing no thinking and no praying; who are just simply obey- ing the will of those who pay them to fight upon the side of the wrong. May God deliver the young men. May God deliver the people. Some of these days Zion, which is already printing a weekly paper, of which we sometimes print as many as forty thousand copies in one issue, shall be able to print her own morning and evening paper, and tell the news without telling lies. (Amen.) May God grant it. I am thankful for all the progress Zion is making, but this is only the infancy of things. If God shall spare my life and I believe He will spare it until my work is done if He shall spare my life, then I give you a hearty invitation to come some day and meet with me in Zion Temple in Zion City. There we shall meet you twenty thousand strong. (Amen. Applause.) I am so glad for all that God is doing; and now, dear ones, let me give you the announcements for the week. 120 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I will speak on Wednesday night, November 1st, in this Tabernacle, upon "Zion's Witness Against the Sorcerers." The word in scripture, both in Hebrew, kashaph, and in the Greek, Pharmakoi (apfMKol), means pharmacists, makers and venders of deadly poisons. Now that is Zion's first witness: for God said in Malachi 3, "I will be a Swift Witness against the Sorcerers," the pharma- cists. I will deliver that lecture here, which the young men from the Medical Colleges on the West Side so much objected to, and rioted over. That is passed over, and the people and the authorities are determined that there shall be free speech under the American flag in the City of Chicago. (Applause.) Ifjfree speech were denied, the fundamental principles of the Constitution would be denied. If I am wrong, there is a way to settle it. A CHALLENGE. I invite the medical colleges, and the Universities of Chicago and Illinois, to whom these schools' belong, to select their champion; to get the ablest and most eloquent man they have, and let him debate the question with me. Let us take the Auditorium, in which I preached for six months. Let us take it for a week. Let their champion defend Human Healing, and tell the best that can be said for it; let me stand up for Divine Healing, and let God and the people judge. (Amen. Applause.) Is that not a fair proposition? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie It is much better than assafetida and iodoform, is it not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie It is better than sticks, and stones, and brick- bats, and railway spikes, and things of that kind by which they endeavored to enlighten my understanding. (Laughter.) I think that argument is possible to good, straight, honest men, but when a cause resorts to violence, is it not a proof that such a cause is on its last legs? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie That is exactly where the doctors are. The Lord bless them. (Amen.) I want to see every one of them Doctors of Divinity. If they will get converted, I will take them into Zion College and put them through the mill and send them where they will get brickbats and railway spikes. (Applause and laughter.) ZION IS WINNING ALL THE TIME, and we are very happy. On Friday evening at the North Side Zion Tabernacle I will speak on "Zion's Witness Against the False Swearers." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 121 In connection with that I shall take up Secret Societies. I know that is going to make a fuss, because the Mah-hah-bones are very numerous and very ugly. They do not like my pour- ing contempt upon the sacred name of Hiram Abiff, the Son of the Widow. Hiram Abiff, the Son of the Widow, never existed. He was never resurrected by Solomon. Masonry is the biggest humbug and the most abominable mass of lying that ever came to curse humanity. May God rid us of it. If anybody thinks differently, let him engage the biggest halls in Chicago and triumphantly set forth the glories of Hiram Abiff, the Son of the Widow. I am going to press the battle to the very gates of hell this next week. I have had such a good time in the week just closed that I am already for another. It is going to be a hot time. Zion is making things quite interesting for many people. I am so glad to meet you. I knew I should meet an atten- tive and well-bred people who know how to behave. I said, "When I come to the South Side, I know I shall be met with Christian courtesy and consideration." I thank you for coming to Zion Tabernacle today to greet us upon our opening. Whatever may be your opinions, will you please to remember that I shall say nothing in anger and nothing in malice ; that I shall speak in love, and I have a right to speak the truth, have I not? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie You will all give me that right. If you do not, I will take it anyhow. (Laughter.) I am going to speak as God shall give me grace. We are going to understand each other better and better. I am happy to be among those of whom this choir sang today: Ten thousand times ten thousand, In sparkling raiment bright, The armies of the ransomed saints Throng up the steeps of light; 'Tis finished all is finished Their fight with death and sin. Fling open wide the golden gates, And let the victors in! May God grant that every one of you will enter into the Gates of that City. (Amen.) The offerings and tithes were then received. THE BEAUTY, GLORY AND POWER OF JESUS THE CHRIST. INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be inspired by Thy Spirit, and be acceptable in Thy sight, and be profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, in this and all the coming time, till Jesus come, for His sake. Amen. 122 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I desire to speak to you today on "The Beauty, Glory and Power of Jesus, the Risen and Glorified Christ." To Him is given all power in the heavens and on earth. He is coming again, and it may be very soon. His Church is waiting till He comes. I feel this afternoon that I cannot do better than place this subject before you, first by reading the wondrously beautiful verses that are now before me. It is a long text, but there is not a word of it which is not infinitely better than any exposition I can make of it. I call your attention to the words which you will find in the fourth chapter of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ which He gave to His servant John, the Apostle, when he was on the Isle of Patmos, a prisoner for the work of the Lord and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. In that wonderful Revelation these words are written in the fourth chapter: TEXT. After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heayen, and the first Voice which I heard, a Voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. Straightway I was in the Spirit : and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and One sitting upon the throne ; and He that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon. And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments ; and on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God ; and before the throne, as it were a glassy sea like unto crystal ; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, which was and which is and which is to come. And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sitteth on the throne, to Him that liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders shall fall down before Him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, say- ing, Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they were, and were created. Then, it seems to me, we best understand this when we take the next beautiful words: And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a book writ- ten within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon: and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome, to ZION'S HOLY WAR. 123 open the book and the seven seals thereof. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. And He came, and He taketh it out of the right hand of Him that sat on the throne. And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and rnadest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests ; and they reign upon the earth. And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in them, heard I saying, Unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped. This is the Gospel with which the Christian Catholic Church in Zion goes forth. While this Church has a Message of warn- ing, and a Message of most solemn rebuke to those who sin, the greatest and best part of the Message of this Church is the glorious Gospel which tells us that Jesus still lives; that He that was slain hath left the tomb; that He lives above the utmost rage of men and devils, and we who are waiting till He comes, are chanting the song, "Till He Come." "Till He come!" Oh, let the words Linger on the trembling chords, Let the " little while " between In their golden light be seen ; Let us think how heaven and home Lie beyond that, "Till He comer" Clouds and darkness round us press; Would we have one sorrow less? All the sharpness of the cross, All that tells the world is loss, Death, and darkness, and the tomb, Only whisper, "Till He come!" Till He come we shall occupy. We shall do our utmost to bring the multitudes for whom He died to say, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." This is the great mission of Zion. Let me talk to you about my King, my Lord, my God, whom I love above all else, whom I have known all my life. I know Him better, and love Him dearer every day. Let me talk to you about Jesus. THE BEAUTY OF JESUS THE CHRIST. First, His Beauty. In the Song of Solomon, the singer is the Church, the bride, the Lamb's wife, and she sings in that 124 ZION'S HOLY WAR. song that He is "The Chiefest among ten thousand," and that "He is altogether lovely." Should not we, as a part of that Church, sing that song today? When He came to this earth, they saw "no beauty that they should desire Him." He was a " Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with sickness." He went about this earth doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil. Where'er He came, from every street, every lane, the mul- titudes poured forth at the glad cry, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." His hand touched the sinful and the sick, and His sympathetic spirit awoke sorrow in the contrite hearts of the sinful. All who ever hated Him were those whose " craft was in danger" from His work, and who would not quit their sin. But the people loved Him wherever He went. They brought out their sick, their sad, their sorrowing, and He blessed all who came in faith. The Beauty of the Lord is seen in His saving, healing and cleansing power. The Glory of Jesus is shown in the mighty works which He hath wrought, is working, and will yet work. The power of Jesus is shown in the fact that there is no name today so mighty over all the earth as the Name of Jesus. Jesus, the Name high over all, is still the mightiest Name in earth and in heaven. Now let me tell you what I know of His Glory, and what I have seen of His Power. I feel on this Lord's Day, which in Zion is always testimony day, to tell you something of Him whom I love so well, and whose Glory and Power I have realized so largely. Young men, I am no longer young in years. Yet I feel so young in heart that I can understand something of the words, "A man is just as old as he feels." If I am no older than I feel, then I am very young today. I am in sympathy with the young man. I almost wish I were in age by his side, so that I might have so much of life before me in this glorious time in which we live, when the "hidings of God's power" have been revealed in air and earth and sea; when the wondrous lightnings have been chained; when we can transmit thought and even speech from land to land, and when the wireless telegraphy is carrying thought over the nations and over the seas. God is working everywhere in these days which are dawn- ing upon us. I hope to live yet to see them more gloriously unfolded. My young brothers, I would say to you, BE EARNEST, BE EARNEST. Do not fritter away these days which are so precious, and which you can use to so much advantage. Remember that today this wonderful blessing is coming to you in the Name of Him who has given us all these things; who is all the Foun- ZION'S HOLY WAR. 12$ tain of wisdom and glory and power. Oh, how simple Jesus is, in His beautiful adaptation to our necessities; how kind He is; how considerate and condescending He is. If we only knew Him as a great King clothed in the awful majesties of heaven, and controlling the destinies of earth with an omnipotent hand, we might faint before Him. But oh! how tender He is when we know that He, the Lamb that was slain, is still going about doing good, and that He is standing at the heart of the sinner today, and saying: Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with I desire you to see today that He whose head once was crowned with thorns, whose hands were once pierced for you, whose feet were once pierced for you, whose human heart once beat on earth for us, is still walking through the streets and lanes of the cities. He is knocking today at your heart in this place. The pierced hand still knocketh, and beneath the crowned brow beam the patient eyes, so tender, of thy Saviour waiting there. Send Him not away; it is perhaps the last time for you on earth. Oh! how condescending that He should knock at the door of the poor sinner's heart. This Christ is still the same Saviour and still the same Healer as of old. He goes about, as He did in Galilee, cast- ing devils out and healing all who are oppressed. His touch has still its ancient power; No word from Him can fruitless fall. Oh, that He would bless us in this evening hour, and in His mercy heal us all ! He is just the same. There is no change: for Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is with us always. I desire to tell you that HE IS WAITING TO ENTER EVERY SHADOWED HOME. Where'er the sick may be, there He stands. He still says as of old, "Wilt thou be made whole?" He is able, He is will- ing, and He is waiting, and He is longing to bless. There is no change in Him. He is unchangeable and present. ^ The healing of His seamless dress, Is by all beds of pain; We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again. He is the Saviour, He is the Healer. He is the Cleanser of the passions which are within the young, and alas! within the old, which come to them by inheritance from those who sinned. The Christ comes today and says, "It is I ; be not afraid." If you will let Him in He will cleanse your heart from sin. He will take away these fierce passions which beat, and bruise, 126 ZION'S HOLY WAR. and torment, and destroy until you are bowed down with shame and sorrow. He will make you His own free men and free women in Himself and by the Spirit of His Power. Let me talk of His Power. THE POWER OF JESUS THE CHRIST. His Power is adequate to all our possible necessities. His Power is commensurate in duration with all the eternities. His Power is commensurate and coextensive with the omnipo- tence and omnipresence of God the Father Himself, who hath committed all things into His hands. That same Christ we preach no longer a Man of Sorrows, but forever a Man of Sympathies. No longer crowned with thorns, He is crowned with Glory and Honor. No longer weak, buffeted and bleeding, bearing the cross and dying in shame. HE NOW SITS UPON THE THRONE OF UNIVERSAL EMPIRE. He is ruling throughout the heavens, and He will rule throughout the earth. (Amen.) He is coming, blessed be His Name. He is coming, and we are waiting till He come. The kingdoms of this earth shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. In the City of Edinburgh, a few years ago, this touching little story was told in my presence. Let me give it to you. A BEAUTIFUL STORY ILLUSTRATING JESUS AT THE SINNER'S HEART. "I was visiting," said that good man, Arnot, "amongst my poor, sick people in the wynds and closes of Edinburgh here last week. I stood away back, and looked up at the high houses to see whether Betty, my good old Betty Gordon, an aged saint of God, were at home or not. I knew that she was at home by this sign: that her little flower-pots were out upon her windowsill; that the blind was up. I knew Betty was in; for when she went away she carefully took in the flower-pots and pulled down the blinds. "I knew that she was poor and needy; but she trusted God, and I was so glad that somebody had given me some money that morning that I might give to the poor. I calcu- lated what Betty's rent would amount to for a month, and I put that aside in my pocket with other moneys for the poor. "I went into the close, climbed up the winding stone stairs, and panting, I at last reached Betty's door. I knocked. At first I knocked softly, but there was no answer. Then I knocked louder, but there was no answer. Then I pulled the bell, and it rang through the bed-rooms, but there was no answer. At last I said, 'Betty forgot to pull down the blinds, ZION'S HOLY WAR. 127 and she has gone out, leaving her flower-pots there. What a pity!' Then I went down the stairs. "The next morning I went back, because I knew Betty needed help, and knocked at the door. After a little waiting Betty came and opened it. "'Oh/ she said, 'is it you, Mr. Arnot? I am so glad to see you! Come in?' "I went in, and sat down. I offered prayer, and the sweet face of Betty, framed with her white hair, looked to me like the face of an angel. "But there were tears in her eyes, and a little look of care there that I had not seen. "I said, 'Betty, woman, what are you crying for?' She was crying. 'O,' she said, 'Mr. Arnot, I am so afraid; I am so afraid of the landlord. He will come, perhaps, today. He came yesterday and I had na the rent, and I didna open the door, and now I am afraid of his coming; for he is a hard man.' 'Betty, what time did he come yesterday?' 'He came between eleven and twelve o'clock,' she said. 'I remember, because I looked at the clock, and it was twenty-five minutes to twelve.' "'Well, Betty,' said Mr. Arnot, 'it was na the landlord; it was me, and I brought to you, Betty, this money to pay your rent. Take it and be thankful.' She looked at me, and said, 'Oh, was it you? Did you bring me that money to pay my rent, and I kept the door steekit (that is "I kept it shut") against you, and I wouldn't let you in? And I heard your knocking, and I heard your ring- ing, and I said, "That is the landlord. I wish he would go away." And it was my ain meenister. It was my ain Lord who had sent ye as His messenger, and I wouldna let ye in.'" That is just like a sinner. When Jesus is knocking at his heart, he treats him as if He were a hard landlord and will not let Him in. Oh, let me beseech of you, LET THE SAVIOUR IN 1 . He is knocking at your heart's door; not to bring judg- ment, but to bring mercy, to bring salvation, to bring healing, to bring holiness. Why will you not open the door? If any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me, The song is ringing throughout the heavens: Unto the Lamb be the blessing, and the honor, and the ninion, for ever and ever. Let it ring through the earth today. (Amen.) 128 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Open wide the gates of all your hearts, and let the King of Glory in. (Amen.) CALL. All who desire Him to enter, rise and tell Him so. (A great company of thousands arose.) PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right, no matter what it costs. Give me power to do right to my fellowman ; to confess, to restore ; to do right to all ; to do right in Thy sight. Give me Thy Holy Spirit. Cleanse my spirit, and my soul, and my body. Enter into my being; take possession. Lead me into the path of Salvation, and of Healing, and of Holiness, and by and by let me cast my crown at Thy feet, and hail Thee, Lord of all. Hear me, my Father, for Jesus' sake. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Did you mean it? Audience "Yes." Dr. Dowie Will you live it? Audience "Yes." After the hymn "Sin No More" had been sung, the services were closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide ; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. SERMON THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF DIVINE HEALING. ON the evening of Lord's Day, October 29th, the day of the glorious opening of the new South Side Zion Tabernacle, the General Overseer spoke again, as he had in the afternoon, to an audience which filled every chair and all the standing- room in the great building, thus making a total of over seven thousand attendances at the two services. Besides these, there was an uncounted multitude again turned away for lack of room. Several thousand of these remained outside of the Taber- nacle during the entire period of the service. Public interest on the South Side of the city was widely and deeply aroused. The people outside discussed "Zion and Dowie" from every point of view, and, inasmuch as many members of the Church could not obtain admission, they became the centers of many groups and gave much information to the thousands of inquirers around the Tabernacle. There was a strong force of police present; but no cause for their interference with the orderly crowds took place. The wonderful story of the Beatiful Gate of Divine Healing was told with graphic power by the General Overseer, and, as is always the case, the preaching of the Gospel which included Divine Healing brought to repentance, confession and con- secration many who were never affected by a Gospel of salvation only. A. w. N. South Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Evening, October 29, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn Number 6: Behold a fountain deep and wide, Behold its onward flow ; 'Twas opened in the Saviour's side And cleanseth " white as snow." Dr. Dowie then read from the Inspired Word of God in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles in the third chapter. Prayer was then offered by Dr. Dowie, after which the announcements were made. War 129 130 ZIONS HOLY WAR. Z ION'S HOLY WAR. 131 Dr. Dowie then said: God has been very gracious to us in this HOLY WAR AGAINST THE HOSTS OF HELL IN CHICAGO. I am glad to have had the joy of opening this new Zion Tabernacle. I may tell this company that we have leased it for five years, and that we are making it a pleasant meeting place. I desire to thank every one connected with the arrange- ments for these meetings. I thank the men whom we put in here just about a week or ten days ago to take this place and transform it into what you now see it. Deacon Harper, Zion's Superintendent of Construction, deserves special thanks and mention. The work has been almost entirely done with Zion men in all the trades. Zion has large constructive powers. This is the third Zion Tabernacle which I have opened in Chicago within this month; and a number have been opened in other States. THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF DIVINE HEALING. INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight, and be profitable unto this people, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer. In the passage which I read to you in the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and at the tenth verse we read these words again: TEXT. And they took knowledge of him, that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. I desire to take you back to that wondrous afternoon in Jerusalem, at the great Temple of Jehovah, well nigh nineteen centuries ago. The life of Jesus Christ on earth in the flesh had ended. Like other prophets, He had been slain. Jesus said to the people: "Ye are sons of them that slew the prophets." Stephen, the first Martyr in the Apostolic Church, asked his cruel judges, "Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them which showed before of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom ye have become betrayers and murderers." In every age ALL GREAT PROPHETS HAVE SEALED THEIR TESTIMONY WITH THEIR BLOOD; and Jesus Christ suffered death as the consequence of His good and holy life. The Beautiful Gate in the Temple of Herod was a wonder- ful gate, and the Temple service a wonderful service. 132 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Christ had died. He had risen from the dead. The Holy Spirit had come. Multitudes had been saved; at Pentecost three thousand in one day. But there was no Divine Healing. Up to this time it was all Salvation. Divine Healing had taken no place in the Apostolic Church. Had it not come forth Christ's words, "The works that I do shall ye do also," would not have been true. Peter and John went up to the Temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour of the Jewish day. That was three o'clock in the afternoon: for the day was calculated from six in the morning until six at night. The ninth hour was therefore three o'clock. At three o'clock that afternoon these great apostles went up to the Temple to meet with vast numbers of Christians, with whom they could meet nowhere else. They were not thinking about anything special going to happen. It is always the unexpected that happens. The unexpected happened in this case. The Beautiful Gate of Divine Healing was opened wide that afternoon when Peter and John went up to the Temple. When they had reached the Beautiful Gate of the Temple they found there, as was the custom in that day, many beggars waiting for alms. These beggars had a whining cry which was something like these words, taken from the Book of Job: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, Oh ye my friends ; For the hand of God hath touched me. They thought in their ignorance that their diseases were the work of God. They did not know what Jesus was preaching, namely: that He had come to destroy the works of the Devil, and that disease was a consequence of sin, and that sin was the vork of Satan, and that He went about, as the Apostle Peter afterwards said, doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil, for God was with Him. Now when Peter and John came up to the gate they found this man. He was over forty years of age, probably not less than forty-two. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT THE LIFE OF THE BEGGAR AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE. That man was, therefore, a little cripple boy of about nine years old when Christ was born at Bethlehem. He had heard of the massacre of the little babies at Bethlehem when Herod was trying to kill the infant Christ. He was shocked as the children were killed by the cruelty of that horrible king. Every Jewish child knew that terrible story of how that attempt to kill the infant King had cost the lives of so many lovely babes. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 133 This little boy had then grown up. He had heard in his boyhood that Jesus had come, and that Herod had failed to kill Him. He had heard of the disappearance of Christ, whom the Angels, and the Shepherds, and the Wise Men from the East had seen and worshiped. When Christ came to the Temple at twelve years of age, this poor man was twenty-one. Now he had never walked. He had been lame in both his limbs from his mother's womb. At twenty-one years of age he was, probably, a beggar; possi- bly he was one earlier. When Christ at last came to the Temple as the Messiah, at the age of thirty, this man was thirty-nine years of age. He had heard about John the Baptist's preaching. John the Baptist, the greatest of prophets, as Jesus said, had preached at the fords of the Jordan. Herod himself, and the corrupt and sinful woman Herodias, were compelled to listen. That woman had to sit still upon her throne of power while John the Baptist smote her on the face for her adultery. He said to Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have her," for Herod had a kind of Chicago or South Dakota divorce. He had married his brother Philip's wife, and the horrible abomination of adultery was enthroned in Herod's kingdom. JOHN THE BAPTIST HAD PROCLAIMED JESUS AS THE CHRIST. Up to the time that Jesus came down to be baptized, John the Baptist had not known He was the Christ. John the Bap- tist did not know that he himself was Elijah, although Christ said he was, and He knew better than John. John said: I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, He said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon Him, the same is He that baptizeth with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God. That was a very important statement, for John gave up his own office and commanded all to follow Jesus. Very shortly after that John was seized in a desert of Judea by Herod and borne off to the Castle of Machaerus and put in the dungeons there. Subsequently his life was taken by a trick of Herodias, who got Herod, when drunk, to promise that he would give her daughter whatever she asked, to even one-half of his king- dom, for her beautiful dancing. She asked for John the Bap- tist's head in a charger. The voluptuous and seductive dancer is often the vilest and most cruel of monsters in woman's form; and beautiful Jezebels and Herodiases in every age thirst for the heart's blood of the prophets who reprove them and call them to repentance. Beauty is often the covering of a Beast. The face of the Sphinx has the body of a brute. Merely nat- ural beauty is ever cold and animal and cruel. True beauty is in the spirit which is awakened into Divine Life by Divine 134 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Love, and the Light of that beauty is that of a Star which never fades or grows dim it shines with eternal radiance. John the Baptist had proclaimed Jesus to be the Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sin of the World. As time went on the people saw increasingly that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ of God, the Saviour, Healer and Cleanser of all who came unto God by Him. The Scribes of that day did not want the people to know it. The Pharisees of that day did not want the people to know it. They wanted to keep back the knowledge that Jesus the Mighty Prophet of Nazareth who was going about doing good, and saving and healing the people, was the Christ of God. They therefore told lies about Him. They said He was a bad man. They said the things that He did were done through Beelzebub, the prince of devils. They said it openly in the Jerusalem Daily Lyre, and the Jerusalem Tribune, and the Jerusalem Joiirnal, and the Jerusalem Inter Ocean, or their ancient equivalents. They sent forth these statements just as they do about me today. Why, the most absurd things are said regarding me. The other day the papers told the story that I was down at Harvey and visited a child who was dying. They said that I screamed, "That child is not sick. Get her up." When she would not get up they said I tried to make her, and when she could not walk I threw her upon the bed. They said that she would not eat, and that I got some pie and apple and stuffed it down her throat, and that she died soon after. All that was said in the papers, mostly in the Daily Record Lyre and the Tribune. At that time I was one hundred and fifty miles away, on the other side of Lake Michigan. I was not near Harvey at that time. I never saw the child when sick in her home, and never touched her there. Only a week ago they said that Dr. Gentry, who has a mission hall in Englewood, this portion of the city, delivered an eloquent discourse against me. I read last Sabbath after- noon Dr. Gentry's letter, in which he said he had not said one single word of it. And so the thing goes on. They told similar lies about Jesus. When a man like this poor man, who had never walked, would be sitting there at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and Rabbi Eliezer, and Rabbi Simeon, and Rabbi This and Rabbi That, members of the great council, would go by, the poor man would say, "Rabbi, will you not tell me whether Jesus is a good man or a bad man?" "He is a bad man," would be the invariable reply. That is what the Methodists and Baptists and Presbyteri- ans of that time said. They likewise lie about His work today because their churches are in danger. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 135 They have not been preaching the Gospel, and are being found out. THE DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES ARE DYING. The Rock River Conference reported an increase last year of one thousand three hundred members, but they reported a loss the previous year of a thousand, therefore they only gained three hundred members in two years. There are three hundred churches in the Rock River Conference, hence they gained exactly one-half of a member for each church for a whole year. (Laughter.) They are dying. In Zion I have baptized with these hands more than seven thousand persons. Of these more than one thousand have been Roman Catholics. More than another thousand have been Lutherans, and the rest came from various churches, and mostly from the world. So these rabbis told the lame beggar that Jesus was a bad man. "But, Rabbi," said the beggar, "there was a blind beggar here who went to Him. Jesus sent him to the pool of Siloam, and he received sight." "We threw that man out of the synagogue." "Why did you throw him out?" "Because he acknowledged Jesus. If you acknowledge Jesus, we will throw you out, too." The poor fellow did not know what to do. Jesus passed to and fro, in and out of the Beautiful Gate, but this man was afraid to touch the hem of His garment for fear the would be thrown out of the Temple; for fear that he would not longer get the little pittance that he got as a beggar. Friends, how often PEOPLE ERR BECAUSE THEY FEAR TO TRUST GOD. No man ever trusted God for bread and went hungry. God protects those who trust in Him for protection. All who obey God get blessing. God will cover your head in the day of battle, as he covered mine the other night at Hammond, Indiana. There were people there who would have died for me, and some of them very nearly did. I thank God for their love and loyalty. I had' been willing to die for them, and they knew it. But it was hard for that poor man to be told on the one side that Christ was a good man, that Christ was good and merciful; and on the other that He was an incarnate devil. Christ passed out to His cross, and, perhaps, amidst the curses and the maledictions that followed Him, were the curses of this man. But after Jesus died and arose again, the Holy Ghost came, and Peter preached that wonderful sermon when three thou- 136 ZION'S HOLY WAR. sand persons were saved in one day. Then the Church was full of life, and full of love, and full of gladness, and the mem- bers went up everyday to the Temple. Did you ever think of it? Why did not the Pharisees per- secute the Church then? Because the Church then was preaching only salvation, and if the Church preaches only salvation, the Devil does not care a pin for it. Mr. Moody preaches only salvation, and the press never persecutes Mr. Moody, because he preaches salvation and administers anecdotal molasses. (Laughter.) But when a man comes who preaches Repentance, Faith, Obedience, Divine Healing and Holiness, with "great plain- ness of speech," then they want to kill him. That kind of thing will not do for the Devil. There is too much religion in it. It is too thorough. It goes to the root of everything. That kind of religion, the old-time religion, is not in fashion in Chicago, or anywhere in the world, today. I do not care whether it is in fashion or not. I have come to preach the old and Everlasting Gospel. Three thousand were saved on that Day of Pentecost. I believe that poor man was one of the three thousand. I think that God filled his heart with sorrow because he too had cried against the Holy and Just, and asked a murderer to be released. He was convicted of sin and converted by the Holy Spirit. Now he knew the apostles. They were his friends, and as they passed by he would say to them, "Oh John! O Peter! Do you think that God has forgiven me?" They would say, "Yes, he has forgiven you." This afternoon as they passed the Beautiful Gate, they gave him a nod and a smile, and he, in order to attract their atten- tion, asked for an alms. THE WEALTH OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH. Some people think that their answer, that they did not have anything in their pockets, was an evidence of their poverty. But that is an evidence of their riches, because it is only a rich man who can afford to go about without money. A poor man has to carry his money with him. I heard the other day of Baron Rothschild in London being in an omnibus. He is a Jew, and when he got to a certain point the conductor said, "Give me your fare." He went into his trousers' pocket and into his vest pocket. There was no money in either. " I haven't any money," he said. " Get out, you old Jew dog." He asked if any one would lend him three- pence. They asked, "Who are you?" He said, "I will have to tell you: I am Baron Rothschild, and I haven't a thripence." One person there said, "Why, Baron, certainly," and handed him his purse. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 137 These apostles were rich. There is a great deal of mis- understanding about the apostles being poor. The disciples in thousands sold their houses and lands; for Jesus said Jerusalem was going to be destroyed, and they believed it. They sold their properties, and laid the price at the apostles' feet. Suppose there were ten thousand of them, and they had only a dollar each; that would be ten thousand dollars. If they had ten dollars each, that would be a hundred thousand dollars, and if they had a hundred dollars each, that would be a million. If they had a thousand dollars each, that would be ten millions, and if they had five thousand dollars each, on an average, which they doubtless had, that would be fifty millions. Anybody who knows anything about the Jews knows that they always amass property and money. Suppose there were fifty thousand of them, and that their properties were worth an equivalent of five thousand dollars each in modern money, then the Apostolic Treasury would contain the vast sum of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars a splendid accumulation of "the sinews of war" for the evangelization of the world. Peter and John were at the head of a vast Church, and they did not carry money around with them. Zion is rich, thank God, today. (Amen.) I am glad to tell you that Zion City Bank and Zion Land and Investment Association have increased more than nine hundred per cent while this persecution has been going on. Not one dollar of the money of any one in Zion has been taken out of our Financial Institutions. But I wish our Church were ten times richer than it is. God is going to make it rich: for Zion must go forth to all the world. HOW ZION FAMILIES BECOME RICH. Our men are not stinkpots. (Laughter and applause.) They do not spend one single cent on tobacco. You who chew and smoke call your bodies Temples of God! Do you think God the Holy Ghost would dwell in a carcass like that, you stink- pots? Zion men do not spend money on liquor. They do not go to gambling houses. They do not eat any pork. Ah, you pig-eaters! You call yourselves Christians! What does the Word of God say? Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you. Did not Jesus destroy two thousand pigs in one day? Swine's flesh is the dirtiest food you can touch. It is full of scrofula and full of cancer and every abomination. 138 ZION'S HOLY WAR. "Oh," says some one, "God made it, Doctor." I know He did, and He made a skunk, and a rattlesnake, and lice. What woman will cook such creatures, and such vermin, for her hus- band? (Laughter and applause.) Furthermore, A ZION MAN IS NOT A MEMBER OF ANY SECRET SOCIETY. You secret society members call yourselves husbands. Husband in the old Saxon means house-band. What kind of a house-band are you? When you married that woman by your side you said to her: "Oh, Betty, marry me and your society will be the one constant joy of my life." You wretched liar, you belong to every society in town except the Home Society. (Applause and laughter.) When the Lodge is out, the Zion man does not adjourn to the saloon, to the house of her whose house is the gate of hell. He does not bring home dirty, foul disease, and breed these poor, wretched, diseased children, and destroy the health of his wife. Perhaps he used to be that kind of a dirty dog, for many Zion people have been saved from the depths, but he has repented and trusted God to forgive him and cleanse him, spirit, soul and body. Then the Zion man has no doctor bills to pay; the fifty dol- lars a year which formerly went to the doctors he now saves. There are two hundred and fifty thousand in this country who, through Zion teaching, have discharged their doctors, hence the doctors lose twelve and a half million dollars yearly on account of Zion. " Hinc illce lacnmce." Hence these tears ot idodoform and assafetida and other foul-smelling griefs which the would-be doctors have been weeping inside and outside of our West Side Zion Tabernacle. On account of giving up and being free from all these things, the Zion man saves about four dollars out of every ten more than you do who sin in these matters. When he has given a tithe he has three dollars ahead still. THANK GOD, ZION IS GETTING RICH. It is making the home happy, and making the body healthy. But to return to the man at the Beautiful Gate. Peter and poor John did not like to pass this man because Jesus had said, " If a man ask you for anything, give it to him ; give to the poor." I thank God for Zion in the matter of her helping the poor. We send out a thousand Zion's Seventies every week, and they go into the streets and lanes, and carry help and good words. We do what we can to win the sinful and fallen to God. We take the poor harlot and find a home for her. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 139 I thank God for all the practical work of Zion. Peter and John had no money with them. All at once there came an illumination. Oh, how Peter's face lit up, and he looked at John, and John looked at Peter. All at once there came into their minds the thought that they had something better than money. THE APOSTLES OF JESUS HAD THE NINE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. They were the Word of Wisdom, the Word of Knowledge, Faith, Gifts of Healings, Workings of Miracles, Prophecy, Dis- cernings of Spirits, Divers Kinds of Tongues, and Interpreta- tion of Tongues. They thought, "Why should not God heal this man through our agency?" Did not Jesus say: He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also? Then they talked to the man, and although we have only the outline of the story, we know that they said to him, "If you will trust Jesus with your spirit, soul and body, and in the Name of Jesus will do what we tell you, you will arise and walk." The man doubtless said, "I will trust." Peter held out his strong hand and said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise." The man struggled to his feet. These poor feet and ankles, that had never borne his weight, were strong now. " Now walk," said Peter. He began to walk, so slowly. "Walk faster." He walked faster. All at once he realized that he was healed. "Am I healed? Oh, God, is it only a dream? How often I have dreamed that I was like other boys when I was a child, and that I could leap, and run, and scale the mountain height, and run across the plain, and leap over the brook; but I never could walk. Oh God, is it a dream, and shall I wake and find it so? Peter, John, is it true?" "Yes," they said, "you are healed." "Oh, am I healed because I trusted Jesus?" "Yes." " Let me test it." He jumped; he leaped; he ran; he went into the Temple shouting, "Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, Jesus is the Christ." The priests said, "Look here, this is the Temple, and it is the Sabbath. Do not make such a noise." He replied, "If you had been healed like me you would make a noise, too. Hallelujah!" (Laughter and applause.) Would you not make a noise, too? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie It is right to make a noise at the right time. There was nobody there who cared to look at the priests conducting the gorgeous display and the evening sacrifice of the lamb at the Temple service; everybody was looking at these men. That fact, of course, embittered the priests then, 140 Z 'ION'S HOLY WAR. as the work of Zion does the ministers of Chicago, this even- ing. They hated, and they hate, to see the people flock in thousands around those whom they despised. Like Nehemiah, we can say, "Hear, oh our God; for we are despised." But, like him, we shall prevail, and we shall build up Zion, and we shall let all the nations see the beautiful Gate of Salvation, Healing and Holiness through faith in Jesus. THE PHARISEES IN ALL AGES ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN AWAY DIVINE HEALING. The Pharisees were asked what they thought of it. "Oh." they said, "it is hypnotism; it is magnetism. You will find a battery in their pockets." (Laughter.) Another said, "It is the Devil." Does the Devil do work like that? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie If he does, then the Devil is a mighty good Devil. I would say, " Hallelujah for the Devil!" But the Devil does not do that. The doctors do not do that, do they? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie They say, "Silver and gold have I none, but give me your silver and gold, and I will see what I can do for you." When you have no more silver or gold, then they say, "My brother, there is nothing more can be done for you." They know I am right. They have "charity patients," it is true; and they need them for medical experiments, and surgi- cal chopping-blocks. This man was healed, and they began to wonder how it was. So Peter and John said, "Be still and we will tell you." Then they told them that through simple faith in Jesus' Name that man had been made strong. That day, it is said in the Word, FIVE THOUSAND MEN BELIEVED THE GOSPEL PREACHED BY PETER AND JOHN. But where did Peter and John spend that night? They slept in the prison. The Pharisees had them arrested for vio- lating the Medical Practice Act. (Laughter.) The Pharisees had them arrested for practicing medicine without a license. (Laughter.) The Board of Death in Jerusalem could stand Divine Heal- ing no longer. ZION'S GENERAL OVERSEER ALSO ARRESTED ON ACCOUNT OF DIVINE HEALING. Now we have had that fight all over. For one whole year they arrested me on an average of twice a week. I had lots of fun, and lost a good deal of money. It cost me twenty thou- ZION'S HOLY WAR. 141 sand dollars. If the then City Persecutor, Mr. Tatge, is any- where around here he lives in this neighborhood he knows I had lots of fun with him. We had lots of fun with that dirty, filthy administration of Mayor Swift's. (Laughter and ap- plause.) That Pharaoh and his Republican host perished in the Sea, whilst attempting to pursue us, and no man knoweth their political grave to this day. "Oh! " that Mayor said to me, "you are breaking the law." I said, "What law?" "The ordinance of the City Council." I said, "Don't you know better, Mr. Mayor, than to call an ordinance a law? An ordinance is only an act based upon a law. Show me the law upon which you base this ordinance." He could not show it to me. I said, "The common law of England is against you." "Well," he said, "what have we to do with the common law of England?" That little Mayor did not know that the common law of England was incorporated by express statute in the laws of Illinois. That is all that some of these mayors know. They seem only capable of fostering "/nayor's nests." I fought all the cases in the upper courts, and we won them all. We smashed up the ordinance, and no man can ever revive it, although many have tried. They cannot fix up any law or ordinance which will touch me. "But we can get rid of him," they say. What do they mean by that? They mean, "We can kill him." But I believe that the people will arise and say, " No. He is doing good. Do not let him be killed." I believe that God will not let me be killed until my work is done. If God should permit me to be killed, Divine Healing would not stop. It has come to the World to stay. (Applause.) Zion goes forward till Jesus comes again. I will go back to that man who was healed. Five thousand were saved. A minister said to me one day, "If you were to use your eloquence in getting people saved as you do in getting them healed, how many would be saved?" I said, "Look here, how many have been saved this month in your Church?" "Well," he said, "I have three." I said, "Here is God's work in our Tabernacle in Melbourne this month "; and then I showed him a list of nearly two hundred converts. "Why," he said, "I did not know there were so many people saved." THE ADDITIONS TO ZION EVERY MONTH NOW ARE NEARER FIFTEEN HUNDRED THAN ONE THOUSAND. Every month people are getting saved in great multitudes, thank God, all over the world, through Zion. The number is far greater than we know: for Israel is not numbered, except by God Himself. 142 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Five thousand men were saved that day. That man's heal- ing made the common people to understand the Gospel. One reason why people do not care a snap about your miserable preacher's preaching is because it is all talk. There is nothing to it. When you pray nothing happens, and you do not expect anything to happen. (Laughter.) You would be mightily surprised if anything did happen. You say, "Doctor, what happens with you?" Well, I will tell you. Would you like to hear one of the last stories of Divine Healing? Let me go back a little and tell you the story as it happened. Dr. Dowie related here the story of Mrs. Ruby's healing, who was instantly raised, after lying helpless for thirteen years, and was able to walk immediately, and continues getting stronger unto this day. (LEAVES OF HEALING, Volume V, Number 49, pages 945-948.) Every one in this meeting who desires to serve God and be God's, stand to your feet now. (A large portion of the con- gregation arose.) PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me Thy Holy Spirit. Enable me to trust Thee and to do right for Jesus' sake. Amen. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Did you mean it? Audience" Yes." Dr. Dowie Then serve God. Love Him all the days of your life. After the Doxology had been sung, the meeting was closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very'God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it; the Grace of our Lord Jesus, the Love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. ZION'S HOLY WAR. PRELUDE WELCOME TO CENTRAL ZION TABERNACLE SERMON CHRIST CRUCIFIED, GLORIFIED, SANCTIFIED. A FTER a month of fierce war against the Hosts of Hell in \ Chicago, it was with joy that Zion's thousands in the city, and many members and friends from this and other lands, gathered once more in Zion Central Tabernacle about the Lord's Table, on Lord's Day afternoon, November 5, 1899. With receptive hearts, the large audience of nearly three thousand drank in the refreshing and inspiring truths pro- claimed by the General Overseer. With enchained interest they followed him as, step by step, he led from the unspeak- able agony and horror of the crucifixion, through the power, authority and love of the Glorified Christ to the beautiful thought of Christ Satisfied with His people's love and service. Then the speaker pictured the blessing and the joy of the high privilege of each one, in whatever walk of life, giving to his Master his love and his best possible service, thus giving Him satisfaction. The audience grasped the beauty of the conception, and there was the joy of a holy purpose in their voices as they repeated the prayer of repentance, confession and consecration. The giving of the right hand of fellowship to over eighty candidates, and the ordination of two Evangelists and three Deacons, were scenes the quiet power of which will long influ- ence the lives of those present. Then followed the crowning hour of the day, when a com- pany of fully two thousand five hundred earnest Christians gathered in happy fellowship about the Lord's Table. Never in the history of Central Zion Tabernacle had so many par- taken of the sacred elements at a regular monthly communion. In this quiet hour the Holy Spirit's mighty presence was felt, War-i43 144 ZION'S HOLY WAR. and Zion, filled. with a renewed strength, girded herself for the mightier conflicts of the month to come. A. w. N. Central Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Afternoon, November 5, 1899. The meeting was opened by singing Hymn No. 348: Encamped along the hills of light, Ye Christian soldiers, rise, And press the battle ere the night Shall veil the glowing skies. Against the foe in vales below, Let all our strength be hurled: Faith is the victory, we know, That overcomes the world. CHORUS Faith is the victory! Oh, glorious victory, That overcomes the world. The Scripture lesson was read from the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. Prayer was offered by Dr. Dowie, after which he said : My brothers and sisters in Christ, who are in fellowship with the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, and all friends of this work who are not, and all enemies because I should be sorry to think that we did not have "our friends the enemy" here today. ZION SET OUT FOR A HOLY WAR AND IS GLAD SHE FOUND THE ENEMY. Sometimes people have been inclined to be so sorry that I have such severe conflicts. I cannot say that I am. Did we not set out for a Three Months' Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie And have we not found the Hosts of Hell? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Of course we did. What is the use of com- olaining that we found them? The British made a reconnoissance in force a little while ago against the Boers, and they found the Boers; or rather the Boers found them, and walked off with two regiments of them. (Laughter.) When you are at war you want to find the enemy. There is one thing about our fight against the "boors," however, they did not walk off with us this time. (Laughter.) By the grace of God we have been able to give a very good account of the "boors" in Chicago, and we are so thankful to God that "OUR FRIENDS, THE ENEMY," ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND ZION BETTER AND BETTER. I hope that they will understand Zion still better, and that the day will very soon come when these intelligent young men will cease to act in the insane and foolish manner in which they have been acting. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 145 I have here some evidences that our words are doing good. Elder Williams has just been in Iowa, and sent these throphies captured from the enemy from there the other day. They were surrendered by Mrs. Dr. Daly, of Sheffield, Iowa. TROPHIES CARTURED FROM THE ENEMY. I do not like to talk about these things (exhibiting an obstetrical forceps), but it is just as well now. This is sur- rendered by the lady who has abandoned medical practice, and has sent this thing to be hung upon the walls of Zion. I must tell you that these are the cruel things with which immense numbers of murders are committed by doctors. This is the murderous tool which is often used to crush the head of a babe unborn when the mother signifies to the physician that she does not want the child. These are the forceps, the murderous weapons which nature has no use for, and God has no use for. An Indian woman can get down from the saddle, give birth to her child, and get up on the saddle in an hour or two, and go on. There is no necessity for these things. But when doc- tors who bring babies into the world at so much a head are in a great hurry, they use this horrible thing and drag the child from the mother, oftentimes murdering the child in the process. A great many murders are committed with these accursed for- ceps. I declare, as I have it in my hand now, that Pharaoh was no greater murderer of the innocents than the doctors are with these accursed instruments, and things like them. May God have mercy upon them. (Amen.) Dr. Daly has given this up, and sent it down to hang upon the walls of Zion. She is a homeopath and sends in her two hundred and fifty- seven bottles of medicine. (Dr. Dowie exhibits medicine- case.) There you are. There is the whole lot. (Applause.) We will hang them on Zion's walls as trophies captured from the enemy. (Laughter.) We have captured the lady. We have captured a great many doctors. We will capture you young men some day. (Applause.) A THREATENING LETTER FROM A PROFESSOR OF PHARMACY. I have received a letter from a gentleman who says his name is Schneider, who is a professor of pharmacy in the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy. He tells me that he did me the honor to come and hear me speak last Sab- bath Day. He says he was so shockingly disgusted with my ignorance and vulgarity, and my evident want of intellectual capacity to argue this matter, that he, as a graduate of this magnificent University, cannot think of arguing with me. (Laughter and applause.) 146 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. I won the "Dux" medal of my academy before I was fourteen. I went out to South Australia, and when I returned I studied in my native city with some success at various colleges, and also in Edin- burgh University. When I returned to Australia they conferred upon me the position of pastor of the collegiate charge of the Congrega- tional body. I was once pressed to become a member of the Legislature and offered, in the almost certain event of my obtaining the seat, the portfolio of Minister for Education in the great colony of New South Wales by the late Sir Henry Parkes. But of course all that is nothing to the learned Schneider who dabbles in "sorcery" in a Chicago school. In the great historic University in which I studied, I learned something of logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and a few other things of which this gentleman seems to be wholly ignorant. I will, however, venture to tell Prof. Schneider that it is downright impudence to compare the Northwestern University, in the Village of Evanston, with Edinburgh University and its glorious career as a school of learning for more than three hundred years! It is impudence to say that no one in the medical pro- fession would debate with me because I do not know how to debate. That is too foolish, Mr. Schneider. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Schneider, you end your letter with a threat, saying that if I continue to talk upon this matter I must be restrained. Mr. Schneider, you will be watched closely, and if a hair of my head is hurt, you may have to account for it. I WILL TAKE ACTIVE MEASURES AGAINST THOSE WHO UNDER- TAKE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. I will stand with the administration of this city upon the side of an exact execution of the law against rioters. The next time I will stand with Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police Kipley, and all his officers, in putting into prison Prof. Schneider's elegant young men, who desire to kill me, and who rioted for hours at our West Side Zion Tabernacle. (Applause.) I have not hitherto appeared against them. I have not complained. I have taken the smashing of our windows on the West Side, and our people have taken the cruel blows that have nearly killed some of them, but we will take no more. We shall appeal unto God, and we shall appeal unto the flag under which we stand. (Applause.) Boys of the schools of medicine and pharmacy, my heart aches for what is certainly impending. If you pursue this riotous course any further, there will be some of you whose ZION'S HOLY WAR. 147 mothers may mourn their dead. I want no mother no father, to mourn their dead. Let the boys behave. I think it is time to restrain them, and restrain them very sharply by law. Prof. Schneider, you should have apologized to me for the conduct of your students, instead of being impu- dent and threatening me. I say to the doctors, that if they go to Springfield this next spring for legislation, I will go to Springfield against it. (Applause.) I have not taken any part in politics. I stand out of all these things. I am not a Democrat, and I am not a Republi- can. I am as you are, a Theocrat. We believe in the rule of God, and in giving the vote to the best man who is before the people. Therefore, whether it is a Republican or a Democrat, it does not matter to Zion a snap. The question is, What is the best man and the best policy? We do not refrain from voting, because we use our votes as well as we can, and there are tens of thousands and presently hundreds of thousands of members of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion to be reckoned with. I shall fight this thing right through. If they appeal to the Legislature again, I will go there too. I shall ask the gentle- man composing the Legislature of the State of Illinois to per- mit me to speak before the Committee of the Whole in the Legislative Assembly Hall. I will ask them to hear the facts and statements on the other side. I will not submit this next time to laws being passed with- out protest. I shall protest against them with all my might. (Applause.) I am weary of the kind of prosecution which is begun and dropped by the State Board of Health. Where are all their prosecutions? Attorney Barnes, where are you, you who "justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him"? (Laugh- ter.) Where are you, with your wretched cases against Elder Holmes and Mrs. Bratsch? Where are you? You told the lower courts that you had to deal with them as murderers, and you got an unjust verdict from a prejudiced and ignorant coro- ner's jury, who were no doubt carefully selected for the pur- pore. You flung them into the jail, and put them in cells in " Murderer's Row" good Christian people of blameless lives. You brought the cases before the Grand Jury. Why don't you tell what the Grand Jury did with them? They flung your false charges out of the Grand Jury room. They flung the Board of Death out of the Grand Jury room. I tell Mr. Attorney Barnes and the Board of Death that their day has come. Their craft is not only in danger to be 148 ZION'S HOLY WAR. set at naught, but there is no honest and intelligent person in the country who cares a pin for it. THE DAY HAS COME WHEN THERE IS NO REAL RESPECT FOR DOCTORS. They are destroying every atom of respect for them by the way they are behaving. If they wanted to help me they could not have helped me more effectually than they have done the last week or two. They thought they could hurt or kill me, but they have been mistaken. I heard the mutter, "We'll get you yet." Very well, when- ever God will permit me to give my life up, if it should be so, it would not be the first life that has been surrendered to God, and to a great principle. But it is eternally true, that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." If I die, Divine Healing will not die; it will go marching on. (Applause.) I tell these things because the papers will not print them. When you read the daily papers tomorrow you will read in the Daily News: " Dowie went on with one of his awful tirades, during which everybody left the house." (Laughter.) I have not seen anybody leave the house except a mother with her baby, and she has been standing in there trying to hear. The Associated Liars of the press must have been born speaking lies. I do not mind them. They can say what they like; they can threaten what they like; they can do what they like. But there are more for us than all that are against us. All the hosts of heaven are on our side, and by and by all the good, sound sense of the country will be with us, too. (Amen.) Now, I am feeling very happy. Every time I capture a doctor's deadly instruments, I am happy. The tithes and offerings were then received. CHRIST CRUCIFIED, GLORIFIED, SATISFIED. Dr. Dowie then delivered the following address: INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight, and profitable unto this people, oh Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer. I wish to say to you a few words from the fifty-third chap- ter of the Book of Isaiah before dismissing this congregation and going to the Lord's Table. This fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is the great Atonement Psalm. In this great atonement song you have the presenta- tion of our Lord Jesus Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice for man ; ZION'S HOLY WAR. 149 the Bearer not only of the sins, but the sicknesses of humanity; the Deliverer not only of men in spirit, but in soul and in body. I desire to speak to you concerning that which this great Psalm tells us of: Christ as Crucified, Christ as Glorified, and Christ as Satisfied. I ALMOST NEVER DARE PREACH ON THE CRUCIFIXION. There are things I cannot talk about. I cry if I begin to talk about them. If I were to talk to you about the death of a very dear son who had been cruelly treated, and to give you all the details of his horrible sufferings, I would be a man of exceedingly feeble sympathies and bad condition of heart if I did not feel it so deeply that I could not talk about it. Which of you could talk about your son being dealt with as Jesus Christ was dealt with? He was cursed by those whom He came to bless, rejected by God's professed people, because He told them the truth. He was rejected because He, the Son of God, came in deep humility, and because He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil. His life was a reproach to them. They were seeking for as much as they could get from the sheep by fleecing them. They loved the sheep at shearing time, but when the wolf came they ran away, and they were not willing to stand up and defend the lives of the sheep against the fangs of the wolf. The diseased they did not heal. Those who were bleeding and dying, they passed by on the other side and went their way. The Pharisees and Sadducees, the Levites and priests of that time, were a set of time-serving politicians and abominable hypocrites. Their private lives had become a public disgrace. It was known that while they were openly priests, ministering in God's Temple and preaching purity, they led lives full of adultery. They were so wicked that when they brought a woman taken in adultery to Christ, He said, "Let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone." There was not a single priest who could cast that stone. Being convicted in their hearts, they went out one by one. They feared Christ would tell just what kind of men they were, and give public details of their secret vices. Yet these were called the priests of God. That was the condition of things at that time. Because Christ loved the people, and desired to save them from these rapacious ministers who were not shepherds at all, but were the enemies of the sheep, He was cursed. The scribes wrote against Him; the doctors hated Him; the lawyers hated Him; they all hated Him. Why? Because He was kind and 1 50 ZION'S HOL Y WA R. good and compassionate to the people. He was preaching the True and Eternal Gospel, and they thirsted to destroy Him. THOSE WHO LOVE EVIL HATE THOSE WHO DO GOOD TODAY. There is no difference today. If they could prove that I were a law-breaker, do you not think they would have done it long ago? Voices " Yes." Dr. Dowie If they can prove that I am an injury to this people, why do they not do it? They have abundant oppor- tunities. They have at present the sympaties of a great many people whom they have deceived by their lies, and who are entirely ignorant of this work. All their endeavors have failed, because they have nothing back of them except falsehood; and after all, when you come to the higher courts in this country, falsehood does not always go. It was in Christ's day just as it is now. I cannot talk about the Crucifixion. I never think about it without agony. I never think about it without shame. I never think about it without being ashamed of humanity. Oh, that there could ever live in this earth priests and Levites, scribes and Pharisees, who could desire to destroy the life of One so lovely, so beautiful, so kind, so good, so compassionate, so merciful, so manifestly the Son of God and the Messiah of the world! I cannot talk about it. To go down into details of that Crucifixion seems to me to be horrible. The man who can sit down, like that Centurion, and watch Him there suffering, agonizing on that cross, crying out in His thirst, must have a heart of stone. I cannot think of His going down into that awful darkness, out of which He cried, " Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" ("My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"), in the agonies of His humanity. The only thing which I can see in it all that I love to think of is the last cry, "Tetelestai/" ("It is finished.") I love to know that REDEMPTION WAS FINISHED WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED. I thank God now that I do not have to preach to you the details of His Crucifixion. I preach a Christ Glorified. My friends of the Church of Rome bring to you a dead Christ upon a crucifix, or they bring to you a babe in a mother's arms, or they bring to you a bit of bread, and say, "This is the Christ." The Christ is not there. The Christ is not a dead Christ on a crucifix. The Christ is not a babe in His mother's arms. The Christ is not in a bit of bread. The Christ of God is on the Throne of Universal Empire and, by the Holy Spirit, He is enthroned in every true believer in Zion. ZION'S HOLY WAR. 151 We see Him who died on this earth crowned with Glory and Honor. I preach to you Christ Glorified. I am not the follower of a Crucified Christ; I am a follower of a Glorified Christ. He was crucified. He did die. But He rose again. He has reascended, and is on the highest throne of glory, and He is here today. (Amen.) For He fills all things; His Spirit is everywhere. I rejoice to tell you of Him who is Glorified. It is because I know He is Glorified that I have such joy in preaching Him. I cannot preach to you a Christ who merely died. I preach to you a Christ who has arisen again, who lives. This Lord's Table means that. With joy we tell the scoffing age, He that was dead has left the tomb; He lives above their utmost rage; And we are waiting "Till He Come." We believe that all authority in heaven and on earth is His. We believe that every magistrate and every power, political and otherwise, in every city and nation, must obey Christ. His Word is the Supreme Law. It does not matter what you think. The question is, What does God think? That is the only thing that matters in this Universe. We are preaching a Glorified Christ, a Christ who has all power in heaven and on earth. We tell every man that he must do as God tells him. If he does not do it, there is no place for him but hell. It does not matter what the people say, the Power and Word of God is just the same today. The Word of God does not change. "Oh, Doctor, do you not think that my opinion is worth something?" Not a snap. Why is your opinion worth anything? NEITHER MY OPINION NOR YOUR OPINION IS WORTH ANYTHING. Why can you not see that plain, simple fundamental prin- ciple? What is the opinion of any man worth in connection with law? If it is a matter of material law, for instance, a matter of electricity, what does it matter what your opinion is? The laws which govern electricity are divinely made, and you have to obey them. If you do not obey them, you will be electrocuted. You have to obey the laws which govern motion. If you run a train upon a railway line, you have to bear in mind the laws of centripetal and centrifugal force. You have to so arrange that train, and so arrange that rail, that there will be a perfect equipoise, or else you will go to smash. I $2 ZION'S HOLY WAR. These things are a matter of delicate arrangements of laws. There is a law in all things that come from God, and there is a law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and Christ is glorified by my preaching that law. It is an exact law. You have to repent of your violations of law, you have to believe in Christ's Law of Life and Love, and you have to obey God fully. That is His Eternal Law. CHRIST SATISFIED. What a glorious thing it would be if we who are Christians here today would ask God to enable us to so please our Lord by our daily walk and conversation that we shall be able by His grace to satisfy Him. (Dr. Dowie is handed a telegram.) Let us pray for this sick woman. Father in Heaven, bless this sick woman in Sault Ste. Marie. Stretch forth Thine hand to heal all others at this time who are seeking prayer, for Jesus' sake. Amen. THE CHRISTIAN'S BLESSED PRIVILEGE OF SATISFYING CHRIST. My brothers and my sisters here today, I know that if you are serving a good man or a good woman, you are always glad to know that you have satisfied your mistress, your master, 01 your employer. Or if you have been fulfilling a contract, in the building of a house, and at the end of the time the man for whom you built says, "You have carried out this contract faith^ fully, it gives me very much pleasure to pay you this money," you not only take the money from him and thank him, but you thank him for that kind word which makes the retrospect of your relations with each other so pleasant. Whenever I can say a kind word when I am closing a business transaction, or anything of that kind, it gives me great pleasure, and I see it gives other people pleasure. When I say some- times to an employee, "I am satisfied with you; you are doing nicely; you are getting along well," then I see the smile on the face, and I never forget how happy I have made that boy or that girl or that man or woman. It is an intense delight for me to do so. And they are glad that I am satisfied. Think of Christ our King, our Best of Masters, being satisfied. When will He be satisfied ? I will tell you when He will be satisfied. CHRIST WILL BE SATISFIED WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE WHOLLY SATISFIED WITH HIM. Are you wholly satisfied with Jesus? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie Are you determined to satisfy your Lord and Master by your daily life and conversation ? Voices "Yes." ZION'S HOLY WAR. 153 Dr. Dowie And when you are toiling in the workshop, or wherever you are, will you raise your heart to God our Father and tell Him that you are satisfied with Jesus ? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie It is such a beautiful thought to realize every hour and every day that His atoning sacrifice has satisfied all your necessity. What a joy to know that He satisfies your spirit, and your soul, and your body; that He provides a per- fect redemption. What peace enters the heart when you are satisfied with Him as your Guide, and as your all. If you lost everything else, to have Him is a satisfaction that is complete in itself. I am so glad that I am satisfied. I am satisfied to be a Christian. I am satisfied to live, and I am satisfied to die, if need be, for Christ; because I am determined that He shall be glorified in my mortal body, whether it be by death or life; for me to live for Christ is life, and to die is gain. When a man sees Christ and has that thought in his heart, Christ is satisfied with him. CHRIST IS SATISFIED WITH THOSE WHO DO THEIR BEST. Oh, I pray you let Him see in your life that you are doing the best you can. You cannot all do what I am doing, and I cannot do what some of you are doing, but we can each do our part. When the woman poured out three hundred denarii worth of costly spikenard upon her Lord's feet, that miserable Judas, who was a thief and held the bag, said, "What a waste this is; why was the money not given to the poor ? " Was it a waste ? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie The Lord looked at her who was rebuked by that thief Judas, and He looked the satisfaction that there was in His Spirit. Then He turned to Judas and rebuked him, and said, "She hath done what she could; and this shall be told of her throughout all the generations to come." The fragrance of that Ointment fills this place today. Was not that woman satisfied? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie It was all she could do. She gave her best to Jesus. There was, perhaps, in her heart the thought that the Lord would die. She heard Him say that He was going up to Jerusalem to die. Perhaps some of the apostles had told her that He should die there. Hence she came, and before He died she poured out the spikenard upon the Living Christ. AN EXHORTATION TO GIVE LOVE EXPRESSION. There are some of you who say such sweet things about your friends when they are dead. Some of you mourn over the wife who, in life, was looking for a kindly word, and a 154 ZION'S HOLY WAR. kindly smile, and a word of satisfaction, and you did not give it. When she is dead you recount her virtues, and you pour the spikenard of your praises upon a corpse. Why not give some of it while they live? Why not say a kind word now? Do not leave it until the loved one's heart is broken by your coldness, and you can only caress the ice-cold body of clay. And do not confine your appreciation to mere words. Gifts are love tokens. Do not wait to be entreated. Give as God gives. He provides for our wants before we know that the need will arise, and He showers us with free gifts innumerable and beyond all price. Many give only when they must, and they destroy love and only give from fear or shame. They leave all to those who have no longer any opportunity or power to enjoy. Give expression to your concealed love now. Weary, withering and wasted lives are looking into your eyes longing for your love. Satisfy the heart-hunger of your wife, son, daughter, friend, fellow-worker who have given, and are giving, their lives for you who are so cold to them. Above all, satisfy the longing of Jesus for your love and your consecration. He who was crucified, and glorified, let Him be satisfied in you. WHY NOT SERVE GOD WITH THE FULL STRENGTH OF YOUR YOUTH AND PRIME? If you love the Lord, why not tell Him you love Him now? Why wait until by and by? Why wait until death is feeling for your heart-strings? Are you manly? Are you a man? Are you a woman? Do you love the Lord, and do you thank Him for what He has done for you, and will you not confess Him? Oh shame, beyond the bitterest thought That evil spirit ever framed, That you should know what Jesus wrought, Yet feel your haughty hearts untamed. Why not bring to Him that young life, your manly life, your womanly life? Pour it out at His feet, and let the fra- grance of your life and your love and your service fill all the short time of your life on earth. He will care more for that than He will for your weeping at His feet when you are dying. Come to Him now, and let Him be satisfied. My prayer to God this last week has been, "Oh God, I want Thee to be satisfied with Zion. I want Zion to be satis- ZION'S HOLY WAR. I$$ fied with Thee. Satisfy us early with Thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all the days of our lives that we may serve Thee. Satisfy us with Thyself that we may satisfy Thee." May God in His infinite mercy grant that you and I shall so live that we shall satisfy God; that Christ shall see in us here and now all the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied. I see a day coming beyond the darkness and the conflict. I see that day; I hear its music from afar. I hear the coming of His chariot wheels down through the skies, and the chariots are beginning to swing very low. The King is coming, and I shall be satisfied when I awake in His likeness. I care not when, I care not where, only that I may satisfy my Lord and live out my life, and then sleep, and then awake in His likeness. I cannot be satisfied until I awake in His like- ness. May He be satisfied with me. My poor little best I will do. I can do so little, but, Oh Christ of God, before I die may I pour out upon Thy feet that precious Ointment which may fill the whole world. May God help us. You who desire to do this, stand and tell God all you who want to live for God. (Nearly all arose.) PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be, in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right, no matter what it costs. Help me to trust Thee, to love and to serve Thee, that Thou mayest be satisfied with me. Oh make me satisfied with Thee. No matter what happens, may I trust Thee and serve Thee with every power, spirit, soul, body, money, time, talents all I have, all I hope for, for Jesus' sake. (All repeat the prayer, clause by clause, after Dr. Dowie.) Did you mean it? Audience "Yes." After the Doxology had been sung, the meeting was closed by Dr. Dowie pronouncing the BENEDICTION. Beloved, abstain from all appearance of evil. And may the very God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved entire, without blame unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; faithful as He that calleth you, who also will do it; the grace of -our Lord Jesus, the love of God our Father, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Guide; one Eternal God, abide in you, bless you and keep you, and all the Israel of God everywhere, forever. Amen. 156 ZION'S HOLY WAR. ZION'S HOLY WAR. PRELUDE REMARKS UPON ZION'S HOLY WAR. SERMON ZION'S WITNESS AGAINST THE ADULTERERS. ZION'S mighty witnessing for God against the awful sin of adultery has been continuous throughout all the years of her existence. A special witnessing, however, was begun by the General Overseer in Central Zion Tabernacle on Lord's Day afternoon, October 22, 1899. On that occasion the man of God dealt chiefly with the fundamental principles under- lying the whole question, and with the terribly prevalent sin of unscriptural divorce. This mighty witnessing was continued at the South Side Zion Tabernacle on Lord's Day evening, November 5, 1899. On this occasion the General Overseer dealt very plainly with the intensely practical side of his subject. He pointed out some of the most common of the causes of adultery with a startling clearness, which was a revelation to many a selfright- eous critic of the sins of others. Many self-indulgences practiced by those who held themselves to be above reproach were shown'to be the seeds of shame. The theatre and other ungodly amusements, evil associates and suggestive literature were especially denounced. He then drove the lesson home with a power, given him by the Spirit. His appeal brought manny weeping sinners to their feet with words of genuine repentance and confession upon their lips. A. w. N. South Side Zion Tabernacle, Lord's Day Evening, November 5, 1899. The services were opened by singing Hymn Number 348: Encamped along the hills of light, Ye Christian soldiers, rise, And press the battle ere the night Shall veil the glowing skies. Against the foe in vales below, Let all our strength be hurled; Faith is the victory, we know, That overcomes the world. CHORUS Faith is the victory! Oh, glorious victory, That overcomes the world. War-i57 158 ZION'S HOLY WAR. Dr. Dowie then read from the eighth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. Prayer was then offered by Dr. Dowie, after which he said: REMARKS UPON ZION's HOLY WAR. God has been very good to us this last week. We are now entering on the sixth week of Zion's Holy War. We are hav- ing a good time all around. We had a splendid time at Oak Park, last Tuesday evening. I was almost sorry when the police came and said that they wanted to escort me home. They call Oak Park "Saints' Rest." We found it a Devil's Nest. (Laughter.) We went out to have a Holy War Against the Hosts of Hell in Chicago. Can you blame the Devil, if he turned up on time? I do not blame him at all. The other day the British at Ladysmith made a reconnois- sance in force to find out where the Boers were. They found out, and the Boers walked off with two regiments. The boors in Chicago did not walk off with us. But we walked off with a great many Oak Parkers, for today I had the joy of receiving quite a number of new members from Oak Park, and I was told there were about one hundred more to follow. Sometimes it needs quite a demonstration by the Devil to wake up some people. God was very good to us. I must con- fess, however, that I do not quite want another night like that for some time. Still it was all right. In the course of a fight against evil there is no use worrying if now and then you get a knock or two. I got some knocks at Hammond. One knock in the middle of my back stiffened my backbone, another in the side of the head increased my bump of combativeness (laughter), and another on the top of my head enlarged my bump of benevolence. (Laughter and applause.) I HAVE BEEN HAVING A GOOD TIME FIGHTING THE DEVIL. There are some folks who do not understand what a good time is. (Laughter.) When you are engaged in warfare, in good temper and a happy spirit, and love the people, you will feel happy when the Devil has been stirred up. When I have bagged about one hundred Oak Parkers, and walked off with a regiment of Hammonders, I think I have had a good time. However, I think I could do with a quieter time now. It seems to me that there is to be a quieter time. I am sorry that the police had to knock good sense into the boys' heads with their batons, because I do not like anybody being hurt. It hurt me to think that any of the boys were injured. I do hope ZION'S HOLY WAR. 159 that the time has come when we are over with these dem- onstrations. Do you not think now that they might accept my challenge, and fight this out with the weapons of reason and logic and fact? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie I cannot get these fellows to accept my chal- lenge. Some of them have said, "We will not accept the challenge from you, because you are such an ignorant man." I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. I had the "Dux" medal of my academy before I was fourteen. I was educated at Edinburgh University, and I think it is quite equal to any Chicago University. I have a perfect contempt at the present moment for all the Universities around about this city which allow their students, without any objection whatever on the part of the faculties, to break the law against disturbing a religious meeting The good sense of the great mass of the people, thank God, is on our side. (Amen.) I am glad to see that even the gen- eration of vipers Jn the press have written a little common sense. They are responsible for much of the riot, however, and are leaving the boys in the lurch after inciting them to acts of vio- lence. That is pretty mean of them. I repeat seriously the challenge that I have given. Let the doctors of this city get their champion on the field and reason this thing out. Let fact and reason prevail. LET THE DOCTORS PRODUCE THEIR WITNESSES. Some one said to me the other day that they would have to dig them up. They declare that they have some living. Let them bring forth their living witnesses to tell of the triumphs of human healing; to tell of the triumphs of digitalis and nux vomica and arsenica and strichnia, and Mother Siegel's Sooth- ing Syrup, and Carter's Little Liver Pills, and Pink Pills for Pale People, and pale pills for pink people. (Laughter.) Let them show us what mighty things they have wrought by drugs, and then let me bring forth my witnesses and show what God has wrought by simple faith. Then let the people judge. They cannot get out of it upon the ground that I am igno- rant, because I had a very narrow escape from being a doctor of medicine. When I studied at Edinburgh University I was an honorary chaplain in the surgical and medical wards of the great infir- mary attached to the University. In that capacity I had the right to attend the clinics of all the great professors of my time, such as Sir James Simpson ancj Lister and many others. 160 ZION'S HOLY WAR. I saw that there was nothing good in either medicine or sur- gery; that both were systems of speculation in human life. Dr. Dowie then gave a resume of the paper of Dr. T. D. Crothers, read before the New York State Medical Association, which stated that twenty-one per cent of the medical men were victims to alcohol, opium or morphine habits. This paper further stated, as the result of nine years' investigation, that ten per cent of the three thousand two hundred and forty-four physicians examined were victims of morphine or opium. These habits, Dr. Crothers said, resulted in "acute mania and suicide." (A synopsis of Dr. Crothers' paper, with some comments thereon, appears in the Editorial Notes of LEAVES OF HEALING for November 4, 1899, Volume VI, Number 2, pages 40 and 41.) Dr. Dowie continued: I ask you, is it right and reasonable that the people of this country should, by legislation, be tied hand and foot and handed over to these men from the cradle to the grave? Voices" No." Dr. Dowie Zion will never submit to it. Thanks be to God, there are multitudes of people who believe that they have a right to choose what doctor they shall have, just as much as they shall have a right to choose what religion they shall have. The State has no right to say to any man what religion he shall have. If one of you here is a Roman Catholic, I have a right to reason with you and show you why you should not be; but you have a perfect right to be a Roman Catholic, if you want to. You have a perfect right to your religious convictions. No one has a right to disturb you. You have a right to be a Unitarian. You have a right to be anything you please as far as the law is concerned. You have a right to take whatever kind of doctor you wish. The law has no right to say you shall take a Homeopath, or an Allopath, or a Psychopath, or an Eclectic. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE GOD AS YOUR PHYSICIAN. If you do not care to take a human doctor, but desire to leave your spirit and your soul and your body in the hands of the God who made them, have you not a right to do that? Voices "Yes." Dr. Dowie God has promised to heal those who trust and obey Him fully. Let me see how many of you have been healed through faith in Jesus. All stand who have been so healed. (As requested, many hundreds of the healed arose.) Thank God for that. I am pleased with the South Side. It has been a good many years since I preached in this neighborhood. I would rather ZION'S HOLY WAR. l6l have taken a smaller place than this, if I could have gotten it, but it was only this or a very small place. When I looked at this place I said, "Lord, I will take it and You will fill it." Last Sabbath Day it was rilled twice to overflowing, and tonight it is pretty nearly filled. I heartily welcome the thousands now present. There are not many empty chairs. ZION HAS COME TO DO GOOD. I am living for Christ, who loves me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And waits my coming too. For the wrongs that need resistance, For the cause that needs assistance, For the future in God's distance, For the good that I can do. I desire to do good. I shall ever do good, God helping me. (Amen.) I thank the people very much for receiving me so kindly in all parts of the city. These temporary little noises in the streets will pass away, and God will help us to do our work, and to do it kindly and patiently and as well as we can. The tithes and offerings were then received. ZION'S WITNESS AGAINST THE ADULTERERS. INVOCATION. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be accept- able in Thy sight, and be profitable unto this people, and unto all to whom these words shall come, in this and every land, oh Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer. In the third chapter of the Book of the Prophet Malachi, the fifth verse, you will find my TEXT, I will be a Swift Witness against the Sorcerers, and against the Adul- terers, and against False Swearers ; and against those that oppress the hire- ling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith Jehovah of hosts. In this conflict with evil, Zion has gone forth to bear wit- ness for God in accordance with His Word against the evils enumerated in this verse. The first witnessing is against the sorcerers. I have explained on previous occasions when dealing with that por- tion of the verse, the word sorcerers in Hebrew is kashaph and means makers and venders of deadly poisons. In Greek the word is pharmakoi (