"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
We need sympathy. One of the noblest traits of the human character is
sympathy. It levels mountains, warms the broken heart and melts the
iceberg. Have sympathy with the sinner. Not with sin, but the fact that
he is one. God hates sin and the devil. He will not compromise. Have
sympathy with the girl who sins, but not with the sin that ruined her.
Get down on the ground where the others are. You are away up there
saved, but you must get down and help the sinner.
Five Classes of People
There are five classes of people and this classification will touch
every man and woman, whether in Scranton, New York or London.
First, those who can not attend church, and you will always find some.
Some are sick, shut in; some have to work in hotels and restaurants;
the maids in your house have to get your meals, the railroad men have
to go out, the furnaces must be kept going in the steel works.
Second, those who can attend and who do not attend church. There are
millions of people that can and don't attend church. Some fellows never
darken the church door until they die, and they carry their old carcass
in to have a large funeral. It is no compliment to any man, and it is
an insult to manhood, and disgrace to the individual, that he never
darkens the church door. But he darkens the door of the grog shop any
day.
Third, those who can and do attend church and who are not moved by the
preaching. There are lots of people who come out of curiosity.
Fourth, those who can go to church and those who do go to church and
are moved by the preaching and convicted but not converted. Every man
that hears the truth is convicted. Talk to those men about Jesus
Christ. Get them to take their stand for righteousness.
Fifth, those who can and do go to church and are convicted by the
preaching and converted. They need strengthening. They are converted
now, but they need the benefit of your experience. You say, "Where
will I find these people to talk to them?" Where won't you find them?
Where can you find a place where they are not? You will only find one
place where they are not and that is in the cemetery. Right in your
neighborhood, right in your block, how many are Christians? Is your
husband a Christian? Are your children Christians? If they are, let
them alone and get after somebody else's husband and children. Don't
sit down and thank God that your husband and children are Christians.
Suppose I were to say: "My family, my George, my Nell, my Paul, my
Helen are Christians!" We are all Christians, let the rest of the world
go to the devil. There is too much of that spirit in the Church today.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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