The sun., 1884-01-01
AWAITING A RESURRECTION.
THE BODY OF ROBERT j. HAYNES
PRAYED OYER FOR TEN DAYS.

FhafED OVER FOR TEN DAYS.
Boots Put Upon tho Fees Aner lleath-A Sect |
with No Namo-LookinR for n Mighty |
Revelation Th~oush Its Dead Leader. |
An undcrtakor's wagon ratified up to the |
door OF plain two-story frame building in |
Brownville settlement. New Lots. yesterday |
afternoon. and two young mon. with lean
faccs intellectual foreheads. and in neat garb. |
helped long-bearded undertaken carry q
plain coffin to the wagon. Thoy climbed
up beside him when 1t was safely aboard.
and he whipped up his horse and rolled
away to the Cemetery Of tho Evergreens.
The reculiar-looking men kept u dond silence
during the journey and when the wagon came
to a halt before an open grave in Mount Pleas
ant path they sprang to the ground and stood
by without word while the cofIln was lowered
into the ground. Tho earth was thrown back
and packed down. and thon. still without u
word of any kind over tho dead. the two men
drove back with tho undertaken to tho plain
frame house at Brownville.
The proceeding they hnd thus strangely con-
ducted was announced as tho funeral Of Robert
j. Haynes Of New Lots u man who for ilve
years hnd beon ms great Il mystery to his fellow
townsmen as the two eccentric persons who
witnessed his, ,intcrment:
his companions. In the belief. so thoy said. that
ii. III, y SsSSi sSS nSie q living Ho yss sSoH;sS
able education. Hs came from tho West iiye
years ngo and settled in Brownvile % with his
Their peculiar mode, Of living began at once to
attract attention Ute They furnished tho house
Sa nSS' rsSns
letters. md PAMPHLETS. These were sll re-
always bore tho inscription. In Faith" From
this circumstance Hayncs and l. his cm9mpanions on
But none of the townspeopie ever succeeded in
finding out what thoir exact mission in New
Haynes fell sick carly in the present month.
but but he insisted thaino physician should be al
mighty miracle was to BIO wrought by tho Lord.
His wife and the others prayed almost con-
he died. On last Saturday. whilo the body was
in tho house, his wifo. who is descrbel as an
telling tho Others thai, she had received q mes.
sag, that HAYNES would Join her there alive.
hold dressed the dead body in ministerial
suit, drew boots on tho feet. covered tho fnce
with sheet and i hid the corpse upon an old: old.
dows with rags. and two Of tho family. placing
it at night and knelt by it by day. waiting
for its resurrection. Three members of their
@ having S been H dwea to come near 2 the
bee been SIM similarly watched md PRAYED oyer When zen
the BODY OF haynos had lam unburlea Tor
heard q tho matter and sent, Police, Captnip
Henry French IT. to , inXsfG9te M ,h it. Cart Frcnch
| courtesy. and was invited to view the leader
whose resurrection they expected.
tho Captain. who however. was amazed nt the
remarkable preservation OF the corpse from
- No. no" said the believers protesting. he's
lying there as punishment i;I f9r an impifnns fns
weakness of man compared with the Divine
Being He will to life in few days
Capt French sought to dissunde them from
that they would send the body on to C6icago Il
tho resurrection did not take place in New Lots
On Monday tho two young men. with rlous
tnkcr Earle up about midnight. and asked him
iIaynes so that he could be laid in a vault =.
We have II message from Heaven regarding
him. thoy said, and don't want him buried
There IL no resurrection this side Of tho I
| pond upon that. All religion teaches that
| Then he gavo them IN estimate OF the cost of
return. tui ' Yssterday an anoher Faith liciieSer
on from Sh"EH 6a Gnd the
Young mon, and who had waited with them un-
avaiIngly for tho resurrection Of their leader.
| children whom the believers had adopted and
departed with them for Chicago by the after
| noon train.
A policeman conducted n reporter to tho
| frame house whore the two young men wcre
still staying last night. They politely invited
| TO II table mt which they had been writing let
ters. A small Bible with black cover lay be-
side tho lamp on tho red figured tablecloth.
| The reporter tried to get tho two mon to explain
their religious belief. ana their mission In New
Tho young men folded their hands. smiled
sweetly. nnd said:
The timo has not yet como to tell why we
kept Brother Haynes SO long or what our work
Is. We arc misunderstood. Everybody who
ever walked in Christ's footsteps has been mis-.
good timo God will lot the, people understand
Us. We believe in tho Bible and its truths
! Wobeleve In faith. We cannot speak Iof the
future. orwhither wo will go; or stay here and
have another loader. Our order is established
in different parts OF the country. We are bount
together closer than brotfers. but wo have nc
took TO Chicago will be placed In the orphan
asylum OF our order there. God Is to work
great revelatio ion shortly"
| Thon the believers rose. bowed the police
man and reporter meekly to tho door; sal,
Good night, we're obliged to YOU" and wen
back to their writing.
They told Undertaken Earle last evcnin!
| that they fet lonesome since Brother Haynes
withdrawal. and that their home WAS broker
| up. They wanted to negotiate for tho sale o
their furniture. 1t Is probable they will 60 4
Chicago themselves In day or two. Mr.. Earle
tion there.
FORFEITED LIND GRiNTS.
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