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320 divine healing. God forbid that I should belong to a church that should demand of every man that he should see with me exactly even regarding divine healing, and should refuse him fellowship because of his insufficient light.

I suppose there is not a man in this house who does not know how I stand on the question of the liquor traffic. If I could, I would stop at once that accursed traffic so wickedly sanctioned by human law. God forbid that I, or any member of the Christian Catholic Church, should ever cast a direct vote on behalf of the saloon. I should ask the church at once to investigate the Christian character of such a person. I cannot believe in the Christian character of any man when I know that that man has deliberately gone away and cast a vote for the saloon. I do not think he ought to have membership in this church, and I should suspend him from fellowship and bring the matter before the proper tribunal. I should at once suspend a person who should engage in the tobacco traffic or the liquor traffic, and I should ask the church to dismiss him if he did not repent …… Such a one has no business in the church of God, for he is doing the devil's work. But if a brother should not yet have been able to see with us regarding the voting down of the liquor traffic, in the way we would like to vote it down, do you mean to say that he should be kept out of the church of God? That is to say, if he did not vote the Prohibition ticket?

I am against all trades unions of masters or men that are tyrannical in their character. I say that no men have a right to band themselves together to compel another man to work for so much money, and if he won't do that to brand him as a "scab." I say that it is the tyranny of labor, and I shall have no part in it. At the same time, I recognize the right of men to organize to get a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, and I shall, God helping me, help them to get it. For my part I should say eight hours' labor, eight hours' sleep, and eight hours' recreation make a very good day. A working-man has labored hard enough at earthly toil when he has labored eight hours; but I say that nobody shall have a right to say that he shall not work ten hours, if he likes. Then again I do not like an organization to say that every man, no matter what his skill, shall have the same wages. I know some men who are worth two dollars a day, and some who are worth three, and some who are worth four, and some who are worth five, and I know some that are not worth a red cent.

A second conference of the same character was held on February 4. At this meeting Dr. Dowie further said:

I propose to train seventies, by the grace of God, who, two and two, thoroughly understanding the work, and prepared first in our Zion, shall go forth, two and two, into all parts of the city and do their work from house to house. I shall carry forward the work by deaconesses and deacons and elders; by pastors and teachers and preachers. I propose to carry forward