"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
This effort for quickening religious interests in the University was
not a spasmodic effort for one day; there had been the most careful
preparations beforehand, in consultation with leading ministers of all
denominations in the city, to seek out students of every denomination.
Lists were carefully made and cards put in the hands of ministers and
Christian workers, with the understanding that all the young men of
the University should be visited in a friendly and Christian spirit by
representatives of various churches. The results, of course, remain to
be seen, but after this effort, no student need say, "No man cares for
my soul."
The conclusion of the whole matter, of course, is that the old-time
religion, the gospel of our fathers and our mothers, is still the
deepest need of all sorts and conditions of men. The religion that
saved the outcast in the gutter is adequate to redeem the man in the
university.
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Christian's Daily Helper
Too much of the work of the Church today is like a squirrel in a
cage--lots of activity, but no progress.--BILLY SUNDAY.
In the course of one of his campaigns, Sunday sweeps the arc of the
great Christian doctrines. While he stresses ever and again the
practical duties of the Christian life, yet he makes clear that the
reliance of the Christian for all that he hopes to attain in character
and in service is upon the promised Helper sent by our Lord, the
ever-present Holy Spirit. One of the evangelist's greatest sermons is
upon this theme, and no transcript of his essential message would be
complete without it.
"THE HOLY SPIRIT"
The personality, the divinity and the attributes of the Holy Ghost
afford one of the most inspiring, one of the most beneficial examples
in our spiritual life. We are told that when the Holy Spirit came at
Pentecost, he came as the rushing of a mighty wind and overurging
expectancy. When Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan, of John, out
from the expanse of heaven was seen to float the Spirit of God like a
snowflake, and they heard a sound as of whirring wings, and the Holy
Spirit in the form of a dove hovered over the dripping locks of Christ.
Neither your eyes nor mine will ever behold such a scene; neither will
our ears ever hear such a sound again. You cannot dissect or weigh the
Holy Spirit, nor analyze him as a chemist may analyze material matter
in his laboratory, but we can all feel the pulsing of the breath of his
eternal love.
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