"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
The Holy Spirit is a personality; as much a personality as Christ, or
you or I. "Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will
guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself." He is to
us what Jesus was when he was on earth. Jesus always speaks of the Holy
Spirit in the future tense. He said, "It is expedient that I go away;
if I go not away the Spirit will not come. It is expedient for you that
I go away, but when I am gone, then I will send Him unto you who is
from the Father." So we are living today in the beneficence of the Holy
Spirit.
No Universal Salvation
I do not believe in this twentieth-century theory of the universal
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. We are all made of one
blood--that is true, physically speaking; we are all related. I am
talking about the spiritual, not the physical. You are not a child of
God unless you are a Christian; then you are a child of God--if you are
a Christian.
Samson with the Holy Spirit upon him could take the jawbone of an ass
and lay dead a thousand Philistines. Samson without the Holy Spirit was
as weak as a new-born babe, and they poked his eyes out and cut off his
locks. And so with the Church and her members. Without the Holy Spirit
you are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, simply four walls and
a roof, and a pipe organ and a preacher to do a little stunt on Sunday
morning and evening. I tell you, Christian people, that with the Holy
Spirit there is no power on earth or in hell that can stand before the
Church of Jesus Christ. And the damnable, hell-born, whisky-soaked,
hog-jowled, rum-soaked moral assassins have damned this community long
enough. Now it is time it was broken up and it is time to do something.
There are three classes in the Church, as I have looked at it from my
standpoint. The first are those in the Church personally who want to be
saved, but they are not concerned about other people. They do not give
any help to other people; they don't lie awake at night praying for
other people that they may be brought to the Lord.
The second class are going to depend upon human wisdom. There is no
such thing as latent power, expressed or implied--power is just as
distinctive in an individual as the electricity in these lights. If
these globes are without a current they would be nothing but glass
bulbs, fit for nothing but the scrap heap. Without the Holy Spirit you
are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, and a third-rate amusement
parlor, with religion left out.
The third class are church members not from might and honor and power,
but from the Spirit.
While at Pentecost one sermon saved 3,000 people, now it takes 3,000
sermons to get one old buttermilk-eyed, whisky-soaked blasphemer.
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