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JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE (1848-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ALEXANDER See also:DOWIE (1848-1907)  , founder of " See also:Zionism," was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh, and went as a boy to See also:South See also:Australia with his parents . He returned in 1868 to study for the Congregationalist See also:ministry at Edinburgh University, and subsequently became pastor of a See also:church near See also:Sydney, Australia . He was a powerful preacher, and later, having become imbued with belief in his See also:powers as a healer of disease by See also:prayer, he obtained sufficient following to move to See also:Melbourne, build a See also:tabernacle, and found " The Divine Healing Association of Australia and New See also:Zealand." In 1888 he went to See also:America, See also:preaching and " healing," and in spite of opposition and ridicule attracted a number of adherents . In 1896 he established " The See also:Christian See also:Catholic Apostolic Church in See also:Zion," with himself as " First Apostle "; and in 1901, with See also:money liberally contributed by his followers, he founded Zion See also:City, on a site covering about to sq. m. on the See also:west See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Michigan, with a central See also:temple for the Zionist church . In 1903 and 1904, in the course of a visit to the branches of the Zionist See also:movement throughout the See also:world, he appeared in See also:London, but was mobbed . In See also:April 1906 a revolt against his domination took See also:place in Zion City . He was charged with peculation and with practising See also:polygamy, and was deposed, with the assent of his own wife and son . A suit brought by him in the See also:United States See also:district See also:court to recover See also:possession of the Zion City See also:property, valued at two millions See also:sterling, was unsuccessful, and his defalcations were fully proved . See also:Dowie was now broken in See also:health and unmistakably insane; he was struck with See also:paralysis and gradually becoming weaker died in Zion City in See also:March 1907 .

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