"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
Henry Varley said to Moody, when that great American was in England,
that God is waiting to show this world what one man could do for him.
Moody said: "Varley, by the grace of God I'll be that man"; and God
took hold of Moody and shook the world with him. God would shake the
world with us today if only we would present our bodies as a living
sacrifice to him, as Moody did. Are you willing to present yourself? I
am tired of a church of five hundred or seven hundred members without
power enough to bring one soul to Christ.
At the opening of the Civil War many a man was willing that the country
should be saved by able-bodied male relatives of his wife, who made
themselves bullet-men, but he didn't go himself. God isn't asking for
other men's bodies. He's asking for yours. If you would all give to God
what rightfully belongs to him, I tell you he would create a commotion
on earth and in hell. If God had the feet of some of you he would point
your toes in different ways from those you have been going for many
years. If he had your feet he would never head you into a booze joint.
If he had your feet he would never send you into a ball-room. If he
had the feet of some of you he would make you wear out shoe leather
lugging back what you've taken that doesn't belong to you. If God had
your feet he would take you to prayer-meeting. I'm afraid the preacher
would have nervous prostration, for he hasn't seen some of you there in
years. If God had your feet you'd find it harder to follow the devil.
Some of you preachers have your children going to dancing school and I
hear some of you go to dances. He would make your daily walk conform to
the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount.
Some people work only with their mouths. God wants that part that's on
the ground. Some soldiers sit around and smell the coffee and watch the
bacon frying.
If God had your hands he would make you let go a lot of things you hold
on to with a death-like grip. If you don't let go of some of the things
you hold so tightly they will drag you down to hell. He would have you
let go some of the things you pay taxes on, but don't own, and he would
make you let go of money to pay taxes on some that you do own. Some
people are so busy muck-raking that they will lose a crown of glory
hereafter. If God had your hands, how many countless tears you would
wash away. A friend of mine bought a typewriter, and when he tried
to use it his fingers seemed to be all sticks, but now he can write
forty-five words a minute. Let God have your hands and he will make
them do things that would make the angels wonder and applaud.
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