"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
I am sure there is not an angel in heaven that would not be glad to
come to earth and be honored with motherhood if God would grant that
privilege. What a grand thing it must be, at the end of your earthly
career, to look back upon a noble and godly life, knowing you did
all you could to help leave this old world to God, and made your
contributions in tears and in prayers and taught your offspring to be
God-fearing, so that when you went you would continue to produce your
noble character in your children.
I believe in blood; I believe in good blood, bad blood, honest blood,
and thieving blood; in heroic blood and cowardly blood; in virtuous
blood, in licentious blood, in drinking blood and in sober blood. The
lips of the Hapsburgs tell of licentiousness; those of the Stuarts tell
of cruelty, bigotry and sensuality, from Mary, queen of Scots, down to
Charles the First and Charles the Second, James the First--who showed
the world what your fool of a Scotchman can be when he is a fool--down
to King James the Second.
Scotch blood stands for stubbornness. They are full of
stick-to-it-iveness. I know, Mrs. Sunday is full-blooded Scotch.
English blood speaks of reverence for the English. That is shown by the
fact that England spent $50,000,000 recently to put a crown on George's
head. Danish blood tells of love of the sea. Welsh blood tells of
religious fervor and zeal for God. Jewish blood tells of love of money,
from the days of Abraham down until now.
You may have read this story: Down in New York was a woman who said to
her drunken son: "Let's go down to the police court and have the judge
send you over to the island for a few weeks. Maybe you'll straighten
up then and I can have some respect for you again." Down they went to
the police court and appeared before the judge. He asked who would make
the charge and the mother sprang forward with the words on her lips.
Then she stopped short, turned to her son and throwing her arms about
his neck cried out: "I can't! I can't! He is my son, I love him and I
can't." Then she fell at his feet dead. As dearly as she had loved her
drunken, bloated, loafing son she couldn't stand in judgment.
CHAPTER XIX
Standing on the Rock
If a doctor didn't know any more about Materia Medica than the
average church member knows about the Bible, he'd be arrested for
malpractice.--BILLY SUNDAY.
A publisher remarked to me that a Billy Sunday campaign did not
create a demand for religious books in general. With rather an air of
fault-finding he said, "You can't sell anything but Bibles to that
Billy Sunday crowd."
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