THOMASVILLE — It’s one thing to say God will protect you from a rattlesnake, but it’s quite another to actually put your faith where its fangs are.
That’s what a Thomasville preacher did 90 years ago, and the resulting snakebite nearly cost him his life. Nonetheless, even as the rattlesnake’s venom entered the preacher’s bloodstream and raced toward his heart — numbing his body and turning his bleeding right hand into a black, swollen deformity — he refused medical treatment, believing God was the only antidote he needed…