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adopted prohibiting his street and saloon work, he defied the ordinance, refused to pay fines, and went to jail until released unconditionally by Governor Loch.

In March, 1888, he left Australia, and after several months of work in New Zealand, still looking for other fields in which to establish centers of reform, he came to San Francisco June 7, 1888. Mrs. Dowie said, in a public address in August, 1900, that it was their intention when they left Australia to spend a year in America, and then after a year in Europe, still slowly journeying eastward, to arrive again in Australia in 1891. But the possibilities in the United States gradually opened up in such a way that their temporary sojourn here was exchanged for permanent residence.

He remained on the Pacific coast for nearly two years, con- ducting a long series of missions from San Diego to Vancouver, and establishing branches of the Divine Healing Association in many places. When he first came to this country, he was received by many of the churches and held his meetings in established houses of worship. He also on more than one occasion addressed large bodies of clergy assembled for the purpose. In 1890 he came east, and after a month of mission services in the First Baptist Church of Omaha, which were co-operated in by the clergy of many denominations, he arrived in Chicago in July. After a brief sojourn at Western Springs, just west of Chicago, and a missionary visit to Minneapolis, he made his headquarters at Evanston in August, 1890, where they continued until June, 1893. During this period of nearly three years missions were conducted from time to time in Canada and the eastern states, and services were carried on occasionally in Chicago, for the first six weeks at the First Methodist Church, and after that in various halls in different parts of the city.

In May, 1893, with a view to the opening of the World's Fair, he established a "Zion Tabernacle" at 251 East Sixty- second Street, Chicago, opposite Jackson Park, where services were begun May 7. In June he came in from Evanston to live in a home adjacent to the tabernacle. All through the months that witnessed the wonderful spectacle of the "White City" the