The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-28
MUST BE CRAZY
What the "Revcrend" Hayes Has
to Say About the
DEATH OF HIS son
Who He Refused Medical Aid Claiming
that He Was a Divine Healing
Evangelist, Claiming That lie
Cnuld Cure Him With
Prayer,

The Live Goals" q psper Of the 'di
vine healing" faith, and was written
" r b Hayes, the evangelist" who
refused to let kis son have medical
AID, claiming that he was q ''divine
healing" evangelist and could sure his
'ou by prayer. The young lad was
suffering from AL abBcess on the brain,
and died at Anderson after r. brief Ill.
ness. Hayes has heen arrested and
%ill b, tried for murder:
Dtar Live Goals Family: MAY the
G d Of love, p>aoe and power keep you
true on all lies till j sus comes t.
take us away. After the council meet
ing at this pace, Of which tho unit,
md fellowship Of the saints and won
erful meeting still ltngers, l went TO
Picket Post, O,onee county, and join
cd tn o meeting with Brother Put
,am, who already had the tent up
That place WAS what we generally call
. burnt DISTRICT" where holiness hac
been preached. Notwithstanding there
had not teen q meeting there on the
definite lire line In nine years, O. feK
zero still standing true, while the
M J JritV were In q backs idden condi
zion The whole community, espec
tally the ecclesiastical bOdy, legislateo
a quarantine against the meeting
They filed the roads with brush t,
keep people from coming to Cbe tent.
While this made the battle hard 70,
the first few days, yet we preacher
and those that were saved lay on on.
faces before God until the viot,r
came. Some prayed until 2 o'oloc,
In the morning. T. great God ot
Abraham, Isaac, jacob, and ETH
rode down In a chariot Of fire and the
tide rose higher and higher, and In all
5his was the 9randess meeting we
have been iD for years. Two families
lived In sight Of each other that had
had misunderstanding and old grud
ges against zach other for five years
and they came together, settled up,
got right with God, and nearly all OF
these fa%miliessgot saved, ONE ssnoti
lied, sonGe baptlzed with fire. The;
started o red.hot prayer meeting, an0
the meeting closed with victory.
On Wednesday, the 18Th Of August,
after the council meeting hefe, my
little son, Baxter, who would have
been II years old the 28ah DAY Of Ds
cember, went homo With his aunt,
Mrs. b am, to Anderson, s. O, to
spend q few weeks. Ha was seeming
y we'll when he left home, but wa
AIKEN tie n xt day wien ohills and
:e4dache. He grew worse, and his
aunt was not out on d vine healing
re called in q doctor, and they gave
I'm medicine, and ehe thinking he
2Gud oe alright In a few days die
oot lef ns know anything about it un
II The II h. o.. this day l took the
en1 down, and TucsdSy morning ]
N t. West. Union, S. O., aud on
nl way there 1 met a man with 1--we
Altgrans, one from homo telling nt
VIC re IN .hcy had heard the day be
fore, L Z tom Anderson, SAYING
the doctors would have to perform ar
.pclation, ~ l met my wife at SEN
sea, and went to the child at once.
We found him very low. 1 went up
own to wire the children how he was,
and during my absence the doctor
came and told my wife that he had
abscess Of tie brain, and he had done
all he could except perform the opera
zion. My wife told him we were GU,
IN divine healing, and were trusting
the Lord, and she refused to let him
out Baxter's head. / at once sent fol
The saints on my return, and we pray
d and anolntcd him, and continued
to pray. He seemed to get bette,
every time we prayed, and when tn,
saints would come In he would q
Pray now"
The doctor CO IA again while / wa
away and brought the policemen will
him and tried to force my wife to hav
the operation performed, but she re
fused. We held on to cd, and OF
Friday, Baxter grew wors,, and | ab
solutely turned him over to God IN,
prayed for HIM to save him sDd hay,
His way, so the Lord saved him ant
saw tit to take him, and he sang thre,
Songs before he died: There is j.,
n the Lord" ION, mother I'm SO 9
'onight," and I'm going home to di
no more" thon he passed away at
p. No., to be where there will be n
more sickness or pain, to live Will
Je8us.
} just after this l went to town t.
wire home and have them DIG tn
grave and meet US the next day, an,
just after coming back the cfl Ser
came with q warrant and arrested M
and carried me to jail and put ma In
to a murder" cell. carried nv hi
BILE with me and kissed my wife oood
bye, telling her to be true to God an,
pray for me. In the nearest cell t
me were three white men, and | com
menoed preaching and praying for an
With them. They got under o vic
tion and begged mo to pray for then
L read In the Bible till they shnt 81
the lights; then / prayed nearly Al
night and God filled that dark 90
with His glory, bless His namo,
, never felt so near GID and hesy n 4
sill my life, and notwithstanding tina
WAS away from wife and nv dea
ooY, Baxter, and my loved ones, ca
~a3 with me, and the glory and 6r
: Of HEAVIER otme down In that dar
murder cell and made it heaven
glory to God and the Lamb foreye
and ever. God gave me thu witnes
along towards day that He would 10
' me out to go home with my wifo an
! my dead boy to bury him, and | san
and shouted and prayed. / commen
ced reading the Bible at daylight, an
Sead the first seven chapters OF Acts