Replying to words of appreciation he said:
I do not think that I have reached a deep enough depth of true humility. I do not think I have reached a deep enough depth of self-abasement and effacement, for the high office of apostle, such as he had reached who could say, and mean it too: "I am less than the least of all saints, and not worthy to be called an apostle." But if my good Lord can ever get me low enough, and deep enough in self-abasement and self-effacement, to be truly what I want to be, and hope in a measure I am, "a servant of the servants of the Lord," why then I should be an apostle by really becoming the servant of all.
No man has ever approximated toward that sacred office without feeling that, if ever God called him to it, it would be a call to a cross and perhaps to a martyr's crown …… If I should be called to that office, I feel I should be called, in the depths of my heart, to die. I do not think I am afraid to die for Christ. I live for him.
A series of resolutions was adopted at this conference which declared full agreement with the principles of organization recently set forth by Dr. Dowie, accepted the basis of fellowship by him proposed at the earlier conference, requested "that Rev. John Alexander Dowie, as the Overseer called by God to that position, proceed to the enrolment of members," and decided that the Christian Catholic Church should be fully organized on Saturday, February 22, 1896. In reply to an inquiry from a follower, whose home was at a distance, what policy he was to pursue as to church affiliation where there was no branch of the church just now organized, Dr. Dowie said:
