"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
Go from house to house. Go to the people in your block, in your place
of business. Have you said anything to the telephone girl when you
called her up? You are quick enough to jump on her when she gives you
the wrong number. Have you said anything to the delivery boy--to the
butcher? Have you asked the milkman? Have you said anything to the
newsboy who throws your paper on the doorstep at night? Have you called
them up at the newspaper office? Have you said anything to the girl
who waits on you at the store; to the servant who brings your dinner
in at home; to the woman who scrubs your floors? Where will you find
them?--where won't you find them?
The Privilege of Personal Work
Personal work is a great privilege. Not that God needs us, but that we
need him. Jesus Christ worked. "I must do the works of Him that sent
me." So must you. He didn't send me to work and you to loaf. Honor the
God that gives you the privilege to do what he wants. Jesus worked.
Please God and see how it will delight your soul. If you'll win a soul
you will have a blessing that the average church member knows nothing
about. They are absolute strangers to the higher Christian life. We
need an aroused church. An anxious church makes anxious sinners.
If all the Methodist preachers would each save a soul a month there
would be 460,000 souls saved in a year. If all the Baptist preachers
would each save a soul a month there would be 426,000 souls saved in a
year. If all the other evangelical preachers would save a soul a month
there would be 1,425,000 souls saved a year. Over 7,000 Protestant
churches recently made report of no accessions on confession of faith.
Christ said to preach the gospel to all the world and that means every
creature in the world.
[Illustration: "MY GOD, I'VE GOT TWO BOYS DOWN THERE!"]
Listen to this: There are 13,000,000 young men in this country between
the ages of sixteen and thirty years; 12,000,000 are not members of
any church, Protestant or Catholic; 5,000,000 of them go to church
occasionally; 7,000,000 never darken a church door from one year's
end to another. They fill the saloons and the houses of ill fame, the
haunts of vice and corruption, and yet most young men have been touched
by some Sunday-school influences; but you don't win them for God and
they go into the world never won for God.
[Illustration: "YOU OLD HYPOCRITE!"]
[Illustration: "IT'S UP TO YOU."]
I want to tell you if you want to solve the problem for the future get
hold of the young men now. Get them for God now. Save your boys and
girls. Save the young man and woman and you launch a life-boat.
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