Show SAYS HE IS i JESUS GHRSr I I Schlader Openly and Bluntly Announces That He Is the Son of God THIRD TIME ON EARTH Remarkable Attempt at a Porty Days Fast Visited Ily Throngs of People and Every Day Stories Arc Told of the Marvellous Cures Effected lly the Strange Man Vh is Now Raising Such at Sensation Near t hum qmierqiie New 3Icxlco Very Strange Story DENVER Aug 9A special to the News from Albuquerque N 1 says I I Francis Schlader the Paler now bluntly and calmly announces that he is the Christ Among his callers today I was Rev Charles L Bovard and in the course of conversation the minister I minis-ter asked Schlader if he claimed to be Jesus Christ returned to earth Schla der answered hI am since you have asked i te sir I say plainly I am I am not hereto here-to give information but I will always answer direct questions Do you claim to be the Christ who died on Calvary Yes Do you believe in the teachings of the Bible Yes it is the holy scripture But the Bible says Christ was a Hebrew You are not a Hebrew No but this is my third life Why do you call upon fthe Master for aid in your work I have not yet reached perfection When my forty day fast is overI have yet six days more I will be stronger and some time I will reach perfection Nothing this strange man has yet said or done is so strange as this statement he now makes Mr Sommers in whose home Schla del has been for sixteen days is willing ling to make affidavit that he has not tasted food in that time Every day he is visited by throngs of people and every day stories have been told of cures he is alleged to have affected |