"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
"Visit this city, O Lord, its schools and scholars, and bless the
school board. Bless the city officials. Go down into the city hall
and bless the mayor, directors and all the rest. We thank thee that
the storm has passed. We believe that we will learn a lesson of how
helpless we are before thee. How chesty we are when the sun shines and
the day is clear, but, oh! how helpless when the breath of God comes
and the snowflakes start to fall; when the floods come we get on our
knees and wring our hands and ask mercy from thee. Oh, help us, O Lord.
"When the people get to hell--I hope that nobody will ever go there
and I am trying my best to save them--they will know that they are
there because they lived against God. I am not here to injure them;
I am not here to wreck homes; I am here to tell them of the blessing
you send down when they are with you. We pray for the thousands and
thousands that will be saved."
"Thank you, Jesus. I came to you twenty-seven years ago for salvation
and I got salvation. Thank the Lord I can look in the face of every
man and woman of God everywhere and say that for all those years I
have lived in salvation. Not that I take any credit to myself for
that; it was nothing inherent in me; it was the power of God that
saved me and kept me.
"O Lord, sweep over this town and save the business men of this
community, the young men and women. O God, save us all from
the cesspools of hell and corruption. Help me, Lord, as I hurl
consternation into the ranks of that miserable, God-forsaken crew who
are feeding, fattening and gormandizing on the people! Get everybody
interested in honesty and decency and sobriety and make them fight to
the last ditch for God. There are too many cowards, four-flushers in
the Church."
"O Jesus, we thank God that you came into this old world to save
sinners. Keep us, Lord. Hear us, O God, ere we stumble on in darkness.
Lead the hundreds here to thy throne. Help the professing Christians
who have not done as they should in the past, to come down this
trail and take a more determined stand for thee. Help the official
boards, the trustees of our churches, to show the way to hundreds by
themselves confessing sin. Help them to say, 'O Lord, I haven't been
square with thee. It is possible for me to improve my business and I
can certainly improve my service to thee. I know and I believe in God
and I believe in hell and heaven.' Lead them down the trail, Lord."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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