"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
If God had your mouths, so much money wouldn't go up in tobacco smoke
or out in tobacco spit. If God had your mouths, there would be no
thousands of dollars a year spent for whisky, beer and wine. You
wouldn't give so much to the devil and you would give more to the
Church. Many of you church pillars wouldn't be so noisy in politics
and so quiet in religion. So many of you fellows wouldn't yell like
Comanche Indians at a ratification meeting and sit like a bump on a log
in prayer-meeting.
If God had our eyes he'd bring the millennium. His eyes run to and fro
through the world seeking for men to serve him; and if he had our eyes,
how our eyes would run to and fro looking for ways to help bring men
to Christ. How hard it would be for sinners to get away. We would be
looking for drunkards, and the prostitutes and down-and-outs, to lift
and save them. How many sorrowful hearts we would find and soothe, how
many griefs we would alleviate! Great God! How little you are doing.
Don't you feel ashamed? Aren't you looking for a knot-hole to crawl
through? If God had our eyes how many would stop looking at a lot of
things that make us proud and unclean and selfish and critical and
unchristian.
What God Asks
God wants you to give your body. Are you afraid to give it to him?
Are you afraid of the doctor when you are sick? Your body--that thing
that sits out there in the seat, that thing that sits up there in the
choir and sings, that thing that sits there and writes editorials, that
body which can show Jesus Christ to fallen sons of Adam better than
any angel--that's what God wants. God wants you to bring it to him and
say: "Take it, God, it's yours." If he had your body, dissipation,
overeating and undersleeping would stop, for the body is holy ground.
We dare not abuse it.
A friend of mine paid $10,000 for a horse. He put him in a stable and
there the animal had care-takers attending him day and night, who
rubbed him down, and watched his feet to take care that they should not
be injured, and put mosquito netting on the windows, and cooled him
with electric fans, and sprinkled his oats and his hay. They wanted to
keep him in shape, for he was worth $10,000 and they wanted him for the
race-track. Give your body to God, and the devil will be welcome to
anything he can find.
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