The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-28
What the Reverend" Hayes Has
to Say About the
DEATH OF HIS son
Who lie Refused Medical Aid Claiming
that tie Was Divine :ieaIlDg
Eyange lltt, Claiming That He
Guild Cure Him With
Prayer,

The following letter is taken from
The Live Goals" q papor Of the "di
Vine hoaling" faith, and was written
W Il Hayes, the evspgelist" who
refused to let kis son have medical
AID, claiming that he was a divine
healing" evangelist and could cure his
'ou by prayer. The young lad was
SufSrlng from AL abscess on the brain,
and died at Anderson after q brief III.
ness Hayes has heen arrested and
@ill b. tried for murder:
D.ar Live Goals Family: May the
G ID OF love. p>ace and power keep you
true on all lies till sus comes II,
take us away. After the ccuacil meet
ing at this place, Of which the unit,
md fellowship Of the saints and won
erful meeting still fingers, went to
Picket Post, Oaonee county, and toin
cd In o meeting with Brother Put
nam, who already had the tent up
That place WAS what we generally call
d burnt DISTRICT" where holiness hsr
been preached. Notwithstanding there
1ad not Teen a meeting there on the
definite fire line in nine years, a feg
zero still standing true, while ths
M flty were In D backs idden oondi
zion The whole oomnlunity, espec
tally the e0clesiastioal BODY, leRislatec
q quarantine against the meeting
They filed the roads with brush t,
keep people from oom!ug to Gbe tent.
While this made the battle hard fo,
the first few days, yet we preacher.
and those that were Savod lay on ou.
faces before God until the vlct,r,
came. Some prayed unit! Q o',loc'
In the morning. T. great Gnd Of
Abraham, Isaac, jacob, and Eli i
rode down In q chariot Of fire and the
tide roaa higher and higher, and In all
6hls was the grandeso meeting we
have been ip for years. Two families
lived In sight Of each other that had
had Misunderstanding and old grud
ges against oach other for FIVE years
and they came together, settled up.
got right with God, and nearly all OF
these families got saved, gone ssnctt
He'd, some 'baptizsd With fire. Thay
started o re5' hot prayer meeting, anG
tho meeting closed with victory.
On Wednesday, the 15 III of A lgust,
after the council meeting hese, my
little Ron, Baxter, who would have
been II years old the 28ah DAY of Ds
cember, went homo with his aunt.
Mrs. B am, to Anderson, 8. O, to
spend few weeks. Ha was seeming
~ well when he left home, but va,
aKen G'e n'xt day With ohills and
:eAdacho. He grew worse, and his
aunt was not out on d vine healing
&c calied in doctor, ard they gave
'im medicine, and she thinking he
2"ud oe alright In few days die
not le' ns know anything about it un
II til. II h. o. this day took the
-ent down. and Tuesday morning l
anna t" West Uaion, S. O., and on
~ way there met man with two
Alsgrams, one from home telling n,
VIC ne~A thCy had heard the day be
fore, ant. Cna tom Andersnr, saving
ohI doctors would have to perform az
pel.Sion, BO met my wife at Sen.
ooa, and went to the child at once
We found him very low. went up
own to wire the children how he was,
and during my absence the doctor
came and told my wife that he had
absoesS OF the brain, and he had done
all he could except perform the opera
zion. My wife told him we were ou,
~ divine healing, and were trusting
me LORD, and sle refused to let him
out Baxter's head. at once sent for
.he saints on my return, and we pray
d and anolntcd him, and continued
TO pray. He seemed to get better
every time we prayed, and when the
saints would come In he would say,
Pray now"
The doctor C, M, again while 7 was
away and brought the policemen with
MIN and tried to force my wife to have
lhe operation performed, but she re.
used We held on to Cd, and on
Vriday, Baxter grew wors>, and l alb
solutely turned him over to God anf
prayed for HIM to save him apd have
His way, so the Lord saved him and
saw fit to take him, and he sang threo
songs before he died: ''Tnere Ia i,y
n the Lord" "Oh, mother IN saved
0night," and IN going home to die
no more" then he passed away at 3
p. m., to be where there will be no
more sickness or pain, TO live With
j eBu8.
Just after this / went to town to
wire home and have them dig the
grave and meet US the next day, and
just after coming back the cfl SER
came with warrant and arrest ed me
and carried me to jail and put ma II,
TO murder" cell / carried nv Nj.
BILE with nae and kissed NV wife oood
oye' JeiiinR iier To be true to God snd
pray for mo. Ia the nearest cell t1
me were three white men, and | c1m
menced preaching and praying for AND
with them. They got under conyIo
tion and begged mo 80 pray for then
l read IN the Bible till thcy shut of,
the lights; then / prayed nearly All
night and God filed that dark cell
with His glory, bless His name.
never felt 20 near G9d and heay n ir
sll my life, and notwithstanding that
| was away from wife and my daad
ooy, Baxter, and my loved ones, Goa
%as with me, ard the glory and fire
Of heaven otme down in that darl
murder cell and made it heaven
glory to God and the Lamb forever
and ever. God gave me the witness
along towards day that He would le,
me out to go homo with MY wife and
my dead boy to bury him, aud sanp
and shouted and prayed. commen
ced reading the Bible at daylight. an6
read the frat seven chAApnttesys chapters ae Acts