The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-29
SAYS HE IS SCHLATTER
DIR. CHARLES MLEAN READY TO
CURE BLIND, LAME AND HALT.
He Reviews His Own Career Since He
Left Denyer-Says Power
Comes from God.

yer while he was healing there, and that
IL was taken up by his manager in his
travels until that became his universal
title. DIR. Mclean asserts that he is a
regularly graduated physician and minis
ter, and was fitted TO become a medical
missionary in the Presbyterian Church
He was born in New York ffty-three years
age. but when a child moved with his
parents to Edinburgh, Scotland, their ma
tive land, where he received his early edu-
cation. graduating at the age of twenty
from the allopathic school of that city.
Then he began his divine healing, but also
took a course and graduated from the Chi
cago Medical College.
He says that his father and mother were
very pious, and that II was revealed to his
mother before he was born that she should
be the mother Of a man of great healing
power Since the time of his birth, the
doctor says, he has never known pain OF
any kind, toothache, earache or defective
sight, and as he talked he showed a set of
teeth as firm as those of a youth which
betrayed not the marks Of a dentists tool.
Starting on his career of divine healing,
he says, he has circled the world five times.
being in every land that has been trod
by white man, and touching some that
have not yet been explored. He says that
he will go around twice more, which will
make the sacred number seven, then he
will be buried for forty lays and forty
nights. During this burial, he says, he
viii ascend to heaven and write a book
about God. the holy saints and angels, in
Greek. Hebrew and Latin. Then he will
translate it into English and bring it back
to this world to be read by all mankind
After this mission he will reascend to re-
main in heaven.
NOT A MESSIAH.
He denies that he is a Christ or Messiah,
but says that he has the same personal
constitution as any man, and the power he
possesses comes from God. 1t is a divine
power working through him. He says that
his life is as sacred as he can make it-that
he tries to live as near like Christ as pos
sible. In personal appearance he also tries
to be like Him. His hair is long, the front
pinned back and held tightly against the
scalp with hairpins. His beard is long and
wavy, and he says that he has never al
lowed either to be touched by razor or
scissors.
Among the miracles he claims to have
performed he mentioned three cases of the
dead he had raised in Chicago and four in
London. In Denver he says that he healed
300 people in one day, and continued these
demonstrations until the police threatened
to arrest him for blockading the streets.
1t was at this time that he gave up his
work n went into the mountains 10 fast
for forty days and forty nights. He said
that 1t was by the direction OF God. He
was thought to have been murdered, and
there were all sorts Of stories aioat as TO
his whereabouts. some saying he had gone
4 n axf0n and nfhAro rhoN he ~ Loft 90.
foreign lands, but he insists that he was
In the mountains all the time, but God
will not permit him to reveal the spot.
Instead or staying forty days, as was ex-
pected. he remained away nearly four
months and then appeared IN Chicago at a
time he says he had previously designated.
DR.. Mclean avs he cured Richard Croker
of heart disease and kidney trouble, and
that Croker gave him 5000. in addition to
which the Tammany Club gave him a purse
of $4,000. This money he says he turned
over to charity. He also claims to have
cured Rudyard Kipling when he came very
near dying of pneumonia, and that Mrs.
Darlington Booth was also cured by him.
He Is the "Schlatter' to whom Hetty Green
offered 5000, 600 and wanted to marry, and
he produced clippings from Detroit papers
to back Up the assertion.
BIG OFFER TURNED DOWN.
He says hat Charles Boardway Rouse,
of New York, offered him $1,000, 900 to re-
store his sight, but that he could not do 1t,
for he says God told him to only heal be-
levers after he came out Of the mountains
In Colorado. While he does not take money
| for his services, his annual income averages
| S1.00O,00 a year. he says, which is all given
to charity. So implicit is his faith that
| he says he does not keep any money, know
ing well that provision will be made for
| him.
Dowie, the founder of Dowie's Zion, is
one OF his followers, he says, but he does
| not approve of the methods of that divine
healer. DIR. Mclean stated that he picked
| Dowie up in Australia while on one of his
| trips around the world.
| His life, he says, has been spotless and
| pure; that he possesses no passion; he is
able to go for days without food, drink or
sleep. This life of purity enables him to
retain the power vested in him. He is a
single man, and pronounced the "Schlatter"
who visited Indianapolis some time ago
with his wife, and was later in Jail at
Kokomp, as a rank fraud. He gave as
| reasons that the imposter is too young to
be the original Schlatter, and that he did
not perform miracles in the true divine
| way.
In the conversation McLean drifted into
| politics and the great problems of the day.
Bryan in 1896. The result of the approach
ing election has been made known 10 him.
but the time has not yet arrived when 1t
shall be ~divulged.
POOR, OLD ENGLAND.
The Boer war he regards as the working
1 of Gods plans, and says that it is the first