"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
Some time ago the funeral of a famous woman was held in London. Edward,
who was king then, came with his consort, Alexandra, to look upon her
face, and dukes and duchesses and members of the nobility came. Then
the doors were opened and the populace came in by thousands. Down the
aisle came a woman whose face and dress bore the marks of poverty. By
one hand she led a child, and in her arms she carried another. As she
reached the coffin she set down the child she was carrying and bent her
head upon the glass above the quiet face in the coffin, and her old
fascinator fell down upon it.
"Come," said a policeman, "you must move on."
But the woman stood by the coffin. "I'll not move on," she said, "for I
have a right here."
The policeman said, "You must move on. It's orders;" but the woman
said, "No, I've walked sixty miles to look upon her face again. She
saved my two boys from being drunkards." The woman in the coffin was
Mrs. Booth, wife of the great leader of the Salvation Army.
I'd rather have some reclaimed drunkard, or some poor girl redeemed
from sin and shame, stand by my coffin and rain down tears of gratitude
upon it, than to have a monument of gold studded with precious stones,
that would pierce the skies.
"If ye love me keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever."
CHAPTER XXIX
A Victorious Sermon
If you fall into sin and you're a sheep you'll get out; if you're a
hog you'll stay there, just like a sheep and a hog when they fall into
the mud.--BILLY SUNDAY.
On the walls of Sir Walter Scott's home at Abbottsford hangs the
claymore of the redoubtable Rob Roy, one of the most interesting
objects in that absorbing library of the great novelist. A peculiar
interest attaches to the instruments of great achievement, as the
scimitar of Saladin, or the sword of Richard the Lion-Hearted, or the
rifle of Daniel Boone. Something of this same sort of interest clings
to a particular form of words that has wrought wondrously. Apart
altogether from its contents, Sunday's sermon on "The Unpardonable
Sin" is of peculiar interest to the reader. This is the message
that has penetrated through the indifference and skepticism and
self-righteousness and shameless sin of thousands of men and women.
Many thousands of persons have, under the impulse of these words,
abandoned their old lives and crowded forward up the sawdust trail to
grasp the preacher's hand, as a sign that they would henceforth serve
the Lord Christ.
"The Unpardonable Sin" is a good sample of Sunday's sermons. It
shows the character of the man's mind, and that quality of sound
reasonableness which we call "common sense." There are no excesses, no
abnormalities, no wrenchings of Scripture in this terrific utterance.
"THE UNPARDONABLE SIN"
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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