"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
"'Say,' said David, 'you guys make me sick. Why don't some of you
go out and soak that guy? You let him get away with that stuff.' He
decided to go out and tell Goliath where to head in.
"So Saul said, 'You'd better take my armor and sword.' David put them
on, but he felt like a fellow with a hand-me-down suit about four times
too big for him, so he took them off and went down to the brook and
picked up a half dozen stones. He put one of them in his sling, threw
it, and soaked Goliath in the coco between the lamps, and he went down
for the count. David drew his sword and chopped off his block, and the
rest of the gang beat it."
SUNDAY UTTERANCES ON THE BIBLE
The Bible is the Word of God. Nothing has ever been more clearly
established in the world today, and God blesses every people and
nation that reverence it. It has stood the test of time. No book has
so endured through the ages. No book has been so hated. Everything the
cunning of man, philosophy, brutality, could contrive has been done,
but it has withstood them all.
There is no book which has such a circulation today. Bibles are
dropping from the press like the leaves in autumn. There are
200,000,000 copies. It is read by all nations. It has been translated
into five hundred languages and dialects.
No book ever came by luck or chance. Every book owes its existence
to some being or beings, and within the range and scope of human
intelligence there are but three things--good, bad, and God. All that
originates in intellect, all which the intellect can comprehend, must
come from one of the three. This book, the Bible, could not possibly
be the product of evil, wicked, godless, corrupt, vile men, for it
pronounces the heaviest penalties against sin. Like produces like, and
if bad men were writing the Bible they never would have pronounced
condemnation and punishment against wrong-doing. The holy men of old,
we are told, "spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Men do not
attribute these beautiful and matchless and well-arranged sentences to
human intelligence alone, but we are told that men spake as they were
inspired by the Holy Ghost. The only being left, to whom you, or I, or
any sensible person could ascribe the origin of the Bible, is God.
[Illustration: BITING, BLISTERING, BLASTING CONDEMNATION OF SIN. THIS
RARE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE TREMENDOUS EARNESTNESS OF MR. SUNDAY AND THE
ENERGY, ZEAL AND FIRE HE PUTS INTO HIS MESSAGE WHICH HAS WARMED THIS
COLD WORLD MORE THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER APOSTLE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THIS
GENERATION.]
Men have been thrown to beasts and burned to death for having a Bible
in their possession. There have been wars over the Bible; cities have
been destroyed. Nothing ever brought such persecution as the Bible.
Everything vile, dirty, rotten and iniquitous has been brought to bear
against it because it reveals man's cussedness. But it's here, and its
power and influence are greater today than ever.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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