People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-20

sundry officials, he decided that toe
system should have a trial.
Schraedor, The Healer.
Schlatter seems TO have dropped
into oblivion; but he has not LETT us
altogether desolate. Schraeder, an
other "Dlyine Healer" is with US,
and We are told that he is the only
true Healer and that Schlatter was a
coun .erfeit. We find the following
reyerent and tender, if not credulous,
description of Schroeder In The
Overland Monthly (NoVember):
s'The Divine Healer stood at the
end Of tho barren room, dressed in a
flowing black robe. His dark chest
cut hair was long, and where it
reached his shoulders it vas curly.
Outside the crowd was big and noisy,
but the moment they came into his
presence old and young took off their
hats and spoke in whispers. There
was no jostling or talking. The TO
Let pswn-shop became holy ground.
The curious spell took possession of
us. We joined the throng and with
in the hour and stood face to face
with the Healer. One hand he placed
on the patients forehead, the other
restad on the back OF the neck. The
light blue eyes were turned upward,
the heavily bearded lips moved as in
prayer, and slight prickling cleo
tricaI sensation pervaded the sufferer.
x our handkerchief the Healer said
softly to the old lady who stood in
front. Give me- your handkerchief
he repeated, but there WAS no re-
sponse, no indication that he had
asen heard. The Lealer raised his
hands and placed them over the
woman's ears-once more he turned
MS eyes upward, then he said
gently, Your handkerchief In
family ray Of qualification and sur
prise shot from out the womsn's eyes,
and her hand went down into her
pocket. He blessed the bit OF cambria.
Put it on your ears morning and
evening and you will hear.' The
Healer liz not attractive. AZ comes
from the lower classes. His lace is
coarse; his skin tanned; his hands
large, soft, and moist. He does not
COX intel igsnt and yet one while in
MS presence more than half believes
Possibly il is because he dresses and
looks lika the Old paintings Of Christ,
possibly because he cures by the
biblical manner Of laying on of hands,
eithout money and without price.
W are all religious animals-but
wthal the scene Ia a remarkable one,
sud the exhibition OF childlike faith
make one fully understand the power
Of HE false prophets OF old. Strong
ia the belief that their sufferings are
about to end, all manner and con-
ditors of people visit him, and go
away If not cured at least happy.
MuFmnring, slghing, confding, one
after anotoer, men, women and chill
dren, whisper in tremulous tones their
ailments. Some are pale with emo
ion, some leave with tears streaming
down their oheaks, some claim to be
cured, one threw away her orutches,
but none scott or rovile. One hun
dred aud seven people he blessed,
aud | trust cured, as We stood by and
" stcaed. Then We went out, not to
self but to wonder. We did not for
one moment believe in the power Of
this Schraeder. Not because of his
agent who sold his photographs at
the door for whatever the health
eeekers cared to give-for even
Divine Healer must eat-but be-
cause our reason, which is also divine,
told rs that the Power from whom
he claimed to have drawn this most
divine attribute would never trust it
in the hands of one so ignorant. He
does not claim, however, to be
Messiah or to have any other mission
on earth than to relieve pain, and in
q few years he, like the two hundred
thousand false prophets enumerated
in the Koran, viii sink into oblivion.
Yet there are people who viii call
him blessed until their last hour, fer
they viii testify that he cured them
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