"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for ChristEllis, William T. (William Thomas)
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"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
Ellis, William T. (William Thomas)
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935
The verdict of all Christians who have studied conditions in a
community after one of the Sunday campaigns is that Sunday has been
like a thunder storm that has cleared the moral atmosphere. Life is
sweeter and safer and more beautiful for boys and girls after this man
has dealt plainly with social sins and temptations. Of course, it is
more important to clean up a neighborhood's mind than its streets.
Even in cold print one may feel somewhat of the power of the man's
message on "The Moral Leper."
A PLAIN TALK TO MEN
"Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in
the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the
sight of thine eyes: but know thou that for all these things God will
bring thee into judgment."
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap."
In other words, do just as you please; lie if you want to, steal if you
want to. God won't stop you, but he will hold you responsible in the
end. Do just as you please until the end comes and the undertaker comes
along and pumps the embalming fluid into you and then you are all in.
No one is living in ignorance of what will become of him if he does not
go right and trot square. He knows there is a heaven for the saved and
a hell for the damned, and that's all there is to it.
Many men start out on a life of pleasure. Please remember two things.
First, pleasure soon has an end, and, second, there is a day of
judgment coming and you'll get what's coming to you. God gives every
man a square deal.
If a man stood up and told me he was going to preach on the things I am
this afternoon, I'd want him to answer me several questions, and if he
could do that I'd tell him to go ahead.
First--Are you kindly disposed toward me?
Second--Are you doing this to help me?
Third--Do you know what you're talking about?
Fourth--Do you practice what you preach?
That's fair. Well, for the first. God knows I am kindly disposed toward
you. Second, God knows I would do anything in my power to help you be a
better man. I want to make it easier for you to be square, and harder
for you to go to hell. Third, I know what I'm talking about, for I
have the Bible to back me up in parts and the statements of eminent
physicians in other parts. And fourth, "Do I practice what I preach?" I
will defy and challenge any man or woman on earth, and I'll look any
man in the eye and challenge him, in the twenty-seven years I have
been a professing Christian, to show anything against me. If I don't
live what I preach, gentlemen, I'll leave the pulpit and never walk
back here again. I live as I preach and I defy the dirty dogs who have
insulted me and my wife and spread black-hearted lies and vilifications.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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