Blue Grass Blade

PREACHING THE DOWIE DOCTRINE.
The Rev. George O. Barnes Attracting Large Crowds at Danville.

Danville, Ky., Aug. 12.—The Rev. George O. Barnes, who is well known throughout central Kentucky as a Presbyterian evangelist, is attracting large audiences at the court house. Some months ago he took up residence in John Alexander Dowie's Zion City and later became an elder in the Zion church and he is preaching the doctrine of Zion in Danville. He declared last night in the course of his sermon that the streets of the Zion City were cleaner than the tables in the dining rooms of Danville. He will remain in Danville ten days and preach every night at the courthouse. He has twenty-five or thirty followers here.

Comment—In Barnes' palmiest day, when Kentucky was worshiping him, I stood alone saying he was either crazy or a fraud. If he cannot raise a sensation as a Dowieite he may turn Mormon or Infidel, but I will never trust him. The 25 or 30 followers he has at Danville, are 25 or 30 fools. And yet Barnes is no bigger fraud than any priest or preacher in Lexington. Nobody has ever accused him of lewdness with women and that is more than can be said of all Lexington preachers and one ex-Lexington priest. The neatest dining-room I ever saw was in Danville at Gilcher's hotel Danville is a Prohibition town and the cleanest town I ever saw.