The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-09-26
MUST Be- CRAZY
What the "Reyerend'' Hayes Has
to Say About the
DEATH CT HIS SCN
Who He Refused Medical Aid Claiming
that He Was a Divine Healing
Evangelist, Claiming That He
Could Cure Him With
Prayer,


The Live Goals, F" paper Of the "di
vine hesliog" faith, and was writer
ny 3 B Hayes, the evangelist" who
rstused to let bis son have medical
a!d clsimirg that be vas divine
healing" evangelist and could cure bis
.on by prayer. Tee young lad was
.u9sring from an abscess on the brain.
and died at Anderson after & brief Ill.
,:ess. Hsyes has been arrested and
aill b., tried for murder:
D.ar Live Goals Family: Msy the
6 d Ct love, pace and power keep you
33.ae on all lies till ] sus comes te.
take US away. After the council meet
Ing at this place, Of which the unit!
and fellowship Of the saints and won
'erful meeting still fingers, I went to
Picket Post, Otonee county, and JPN.
ed In . meeting with Brother Put
nam, who already had the tent up
That place was what we generally CAL
. "ournt district, /" where holiness hs<
been preached. Notwithstanding theirs
mad not teen a meeting there on the
definite FIRE line In nine yeara, a fes
yere still standing true, while ths
10 )rity were In a backs idden condi
zion The whole community, espsc
tally the ecclesiastical body, legislatec
a quarantine against the Meeting
They filled the roads with brush t..
Keep people from coming to che tent.
While this made tie battle hard fox
the first few days, yet We preachers
and those that were s:ved lay on ous
faces before God until tbs victory
came. Some prayed un:ii 2 o'olocs
In the morning. TIE greaJ God Of
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and E5:j,h
rode down In q chariot of fire and the
tide rose higher and higher, aud in all
5his was the grandest meeting we
nave been In for years. Two families
lived In sight Ct each other that had
had MISUNDERSTANDING and old grud
ges against oacn other for FIVE years.
and they csme together, settled up,
got right with God, and nearly all Of
these families got saved, some sancti
fed, some bspt.z;d With fire. They
started a red-hot prayer meeting, snc
the meeting closed with victory.
On Wednesday, the 155h Of August,
after the council meeting here, ny
little son, Baxter, who would have
been II years cid the 281h day OF Dc
cember, went home with bis aunt,
Mrs. BAN, to Anderson, s. O., to
sperd : few weeks. He was seeming
~ well when be LETT hcme, but vas
'aksn tie next da, with chills and
.eadacEe. BE grew worse, and bis
aunr was not out on divine healins'
he called In q doctor, and they gaVe
.im medicine, and she thinking he
scu:d be alright IN few days die
aoE let Us know anything about it un
n tbs 27.h. o.. this day l took the
cent d. ed, and Tuesday morning l
ans to West Union, S. O., and on
-ay way there met nan with two
'.slsgrans, one from home tellirg me
a.e news they bad heard the day be
fore, ana che f1on Anderson, saying
the doctors would have to perform an
p-1ahion, so 1 met my wife at Sen
eca, and went to the child at once.
We found him very low. I went up
;own to wire the children how be was,
and during my absence the doctor
came and told my vile that he had
abscess OF the brain, and he had done
all he could except perform the opera
5ton. My wife told him we were on
On divine healing, and were trusting
$he L ,rd, and she refused to let hir
cut Baxter's head. I st once sent 70,
the saints on my return, and ne pray
d and anoInted him, and continued
to pray. BE seemed to get bettel
every time We prayed. and when th:
saints would come in he would say
'Prsy now"
TIE doctor c: ns again while l We!
away and brought the policemen witt
MIN ard tried to force my wife to have
the operation performed, but she re
fused. We held on to cd, and or
Friday, Ba1ter grew wors,, and al
solutely turned him over to God az:
prayed for Him to save him aDd haT;
His way, so the Lord saved him AMI
saw fit to take him, and he sang tnrs,
songs bsfore be died: There is j.!
in the Lord" "Oh, mother I'm savet
tonig ht," and Il N going home to di,
no mere" then be passed away at
o. M, to be where there will be nj
more sickness or pain, to live wit!
Jesus.
Just after this I went to town t.
wire home and have them dig th
grave and meet US the next day, snt
Just after coming back the Ct1csr
came with warrant and arrested m
and carried me- to jail and put nae In
to a murder" cell. I carried ny bi
Die with me and kissed my wife good
bye, telling her to be t1ua to God an
pray for me. Ia the nearest cell t.
me we're three white men, and I com
menced preaching and praying for an
With them. They got under con7ic
ticn and begged me to pray for them
I read In the Bible till they shut Of
the lights; then I prayed nearly Al
night and God filed that dark Gel
with His glory, bless His name.
never felt 80 near God and heav=n Il
al my life, and Notwithstanding tina
I Was away from wife and my dea
boy, Baxter, and my loved ones, Go
vas with me, and the glory and fl
of heaven came down In that darI
murder, cell and made it heaven
glory to God and the Lamb toreve
and ever. God gave me the witnes
along towards day that He would lie
me out to so hone with my wife AM
my dead boy to bury him, and l SAM
and shouted aud prayed. I commen
ced reading the Bible at daylight, an'
read the first seven chapters OF Acts