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DEATH OF HIS SON
Who He Refused Medical Aid ClaimiL z
that He Was a Divine Healing
Evangelist, Claiming That He
Could Cure Him With
Prayer,

by & B Hayes, the evangelist" who
refused to let his son have medical
aid, claiming that lie was divine
healing" evangelist and could cure bis
son by prayer. The young lad wss
suffsring from an abscess on the brain,
and died at Anderson after brief Ill.
mesa. Hayes has been arrested and
Sill be tried for murder:
Dar Live Goals Family: May the
G ID Of love, pace and power keep you
true on all lies till Jesus comes tf
take US away. After the ecu 1cil meet
Ing at this place, Of which tho unity
and fellowship Of the saints and won
+ertul meeting still fingers, I went t
Picket Post, O;onee county, and join
sd in . meeting with Brother Put
nam, who already had the tent up
That place was what We generally cal,
1 burnt distrlot," where holiness hai
besn preached. Notwithstanding thort
had not teen nesting there on thu
definite fire line In nine year, q fe
vera still standing true, while tht
N )ritv were in q baoks,idden condi
Sion The whole community, espsc
tally the ecclesiastical body, legislatet'
quarantine against the meeting
They filled the roads with brush t.:
keep people from coming to Ghe tent
While this made the battle hard fo'
the first few days, yet we prsaohers
and these that were ssved lay on oui
faces before I'D until the v!ctcry
came. SINE prayed un:il 2 o',loc.
in the morning. Tie great Gnd OF
Abraham, Isaac, jacob, ard e ij,t
rods down in q chariot Of fire and the
tide rose higher and higher, ard in al!
this was tie grandess meeting We
nave been ip for years. Two families
iiv,d In sight If sach other that had
aad Misunderstanding and old grud
ges against oach other for five years
aud they came together, settled up
got right with God, ard mary all u
these families got saved, some sancti
lied, some bxpt z d with fire. The.
started red hot prayer meeting, sno
the meeting olcsed with victory.
On Wednesday, the 18Th OF August,
after the c"uncil meeting here, M
little. son, Baxter, who would haV
been II years old the 28ah day of d.
camber. went homo With his aunt,
Mrs. BAN, to Anderson, s. @, to
ypend few weeks. Hs vas seeming
~ well when he LETT home, but wa
AIKEN the next day with chills and
headache. He grew worse, and his
aunt was not out on divine healing
she called in doctor, and they gave
him medicine, and she thinking be
would be alright In few days did
not let Us know anything about it un
til the 27st. Ol this day I took the
tent doHn, and Tuesday morning !
came to West Union, s. O., and OF
my WAY there l met q nan with two
kilograms, one from hrms telling me
the news they had heard the day be
fore, ana one fIon Anderson, saying
the doctors would have to perform az
operation, 80 I met my wife at Sem
aca, and went to the child At once.
We found him, very low. went uI
sown to wire tho children how he was
and during my absence the doctor
came and told my wife that he ha6
abscess of The brain, and he had done
all he could except perform the opera
5ion. Ny wife told him we were on
on divine healiag, and wore trusting
;he L ,rd, and she refused to let hin
out Baxter's head. I at once sent fol
the saints on my return, and we pray
ed and anointed him, and continued
to pray. He se eened to get bette,
every time We prayed, and when tn
saints would come In he would say
Pray now"
The doctor c; M, again while wa
away and brought the policemen will
him and tried 10 torce my wife to haV
the operation performed, but she re
fused. We held ou to G1d, and OF
Friday, Baxter greH woIs,, and 40
solutely turned him over to God AM
prayed for Him to save him and hav
His way, 90 the L >rd saved him an
saw fit to take him, and he sang thre
songs before he died: There is f.
in the Lord" "Oh, mother I'm save
tonight" and Il m going home to di
no more" then he passed away at
o. M, to be where there will be n
more sickness or pain, to live Wit
Jssus.
Just after this I went to town t
wire home and have them dig tn
grave and meet US the next day, sn
Just after coming back tho ticsr
came with 8 warrant and arrested N
and carried me to jail and put mo In
to q murder" cell I carried my bt
BILE with me- and kissed my wife good
bye, telling her to be true to God an
pray for ma. II the nearest cell t
me were three white men and l c2l
menoed preaching and praying for An
with them. They got under convit
tion and begged me to pray for then
I read in tho Bible till they shut C.
the lights; then ! prayed nearly q
night and God filed that dark ce