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anished one of his followers for trying to alleviate her painwith Vaseline. She died of her burns.Many others who came to Dowie’s faith cure homes died oftheir illnesses without any medical attention. His owncoachman, Carl Struck, died of pneumonia in 1902 (PhilipCook, Zion City, Illinois:Twentieth-Century Utopia, p. 120).Conveniently, Dowie said the lack of healing was always theresult of sin.In the last years of his life Dowie was accused of sexualirregularities and alcoholism. His wife and son broughtcharges of impropriety against him and were estranged fromhim. “She revealed that she had found the General Overseerand Miss Hofer together on several occasions in what to herwere questionable circumstances” (Cook, Zion City, p. 201).Dowie suffered a crippling stroke in September 1905, andwhile he was recovering in Jamaica and Mexico, Zion Citywas taken away by a revolt led by the man he had le incharge, Wilbur Glenn Voliva. In 1906 Zion City was declaredbankrupt.For six months before his death Dowie lay in a state of totaldespondency.e Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movementsacknowledges that Dowie was “an important forerunner ofPentecostalism.” Dowie’s latter-days miracle theology helpedpave the way for Pentecostalism, and many of the mostfamous Pentecostal evangelists went out from Zion City, anddozens of Dowie’s followers joined the Assemblies of God(AOG) at its formation in 1914. ree of the original eightmembers of the AOG general council were from Zion City.ose who came out of Zion City to become influential in thePentecostal movement included F.F. Bosworth, John Lake, J.Rosewell Flower, Daniel Opperman, Cyrus Fockler, FredVogler, Marie Burgess Brown, William Piper, F.A. Graves,Lemuel Hall, Martha Robinson, Gordon Lindsay, andRaymond Richey.59