"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
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked
grieves and distresses the Church. When you are willing to make a
sacrifice for the revival; when you are willing to sacrifice your
feelings. You say, "Oh, well, Mr. Sunday hurt my feelings." Then don't
spread them all over his tabernacle for men to walk on. I despise
a touchy man or woman. Make a sacrifice of your feelings; make a
sacrifice of your business, of your time, of your money; you are
willing to give to help to advance God's cause, for God's cause has to
have money the same as a railroad or a steamship company. When you give
your influence and stand up and let people know you stand for Jesus
Christ and it has your indorsement and time and money. Somebody has got
to get on the firing line. Somebody had to go on the firing line and
become bullet meat for $13 a month to overcome slavery. Somebody has
to be willing to make a sacrifice. They must be willing to get out and
hustle and do things for God.
When may a revival be expected? A revival may be expected when
Christian people confess and ask forgiveness for their sins. When
you are willing that God shall promote and use whatever means or
instruments or individuals or methods he is pleased to use to promote
them. Yes. The trouble is he cannot promote a revival if you are
sitting on the judgment of the methods and means that God is employing
to promote a revival. The God Almighty may use any method or means
or individual that he pleases in order to promote a revival. You are
not running it. Let God have his way. You can tell whether you need a
revival. You can tell if you will have one and why you have got one. If
God should ask you sisters and preachers in an audible voice, "Are you
willing that I should promote a revival by using any methods or means
or individual language that I choose to use to promote it?" what would
be your answer? Yes. Then don't growl if I use some things that you
don't like. You have no business to. How can you promote a revival?
Break up your fallow ground, the ground that produces nothing but
weeds, briars, tin cans and brick-bats. Fallow ground is ground that
never had a glow in it. Detroit had a mayor, Pingree, when Detroit had
thousands and thousands of acres of fallow ground. This was taken over
by the municipal government and planted with potatoes with which they
fed the poor of the city.
There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ,
and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done
anything for the God Almighty. There are acres and acres of fallow
ground lying right here that have never been touched. Look over your
past life, look over your present life and future and take up the
individual sins and with pencil and paper write them down. A general
confession will never do. You have committed your sins, one by one, and
you will have to confess them one by one. This thing of saying, "God, I
am a sinner," won't do.
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