He held meetings in a theatre and claimed powers as a faith healer. ĭowie developed an interest in faith healing in around 1883, became an independent evangelist, founding the International Divine Healing Association. He gave his account of the incident in Sin in The Camp. After his authoritarian leadership led to a split in the church, Dowie was fined and jailed for more than a month for leading unauthorized processions. In 1882, he was invited to the Sackville Street Tabernacle, Collingwood. After his move from Sydney to Melbourne in the early 1880s, he attracted many followers. For a time he was involved with the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army Ībout this time he gave up his pastorate as a Congregational clergyman. Dowie then received and accepted a call in 1873 to a pastorate at Manly, New South Wales before moving to Newtown in 1875. Ministry in Australia Congregational Ministry Īfter Dowie completed his theological studies, he returned to Australia and was ordained in 1872 as pastor of a Congregational church at Alma, South Australia (near Hamley Bridge). She was the daughter of his father's brother Alexander Dowie and his wife. Around 1868, at the age of 21, Dowie returned to Edinburgh to study theology. In 1867 Dowie's father was president of the South Adelaide chapter of the Total Abstinence Society in 1867, and John Alexander was an active member. He took various other jobs, advancing to a position as confidential clerk for the resident partner of a firm that was doing a business of $2 million a year. John Alexander Dowie worked for a few months in a bootmaker retail and factory business developed by his paternal uncle, Alexander Dowie. In 1860 his parents moved the family to Adelaide, South Australia. ĭowie was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland to John Murray Dowie, a tailor and preacher, and his wife. In this period Dowie had also refined his religious organization, naming it in 1903 as the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church.
Dowie was given an allowance until his death. The operations of the city have been characterized as "a carefully-devised large-scale platform for securities fraud." His lieutenant initiated an investigation of business practices and deposed him from leadership in 1905.
There Dowie founded the city of Zion, Illinois, where he personally owned all the land and established many businesses. After developing a huge faith healing business in Chicago, with multiple homes and businesses, including a publishing house, to keep his thousands of followers, he bought an expansive amount of land north of the city to set up a private community. He moved to Chicago in time to take advantage of the crowds attracted to the 1893 World's Fair. After becoming an evangelist and faith healer, he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1888, first settling in San Francisco, where he expanded his faith healing into a mail order business. He began his career as a conventional minister in South Australia. John Alexander Dowie ( – 9 March 1907) was a Scottish-Australian minister known as an evangelist and faith healer.
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