"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
Jesus Christ gives you just as much evidence today. Down in Indiana, my
friend, Mrs. Robinson, was preaching. I don't remember the town, but I
think it was Kokomo, and I remember the incident, and the last day she
tried to get the leader of society there to give her heart to God. She
preached and then went down in the aisle and talked to her. Then she
went back to the platform and made her appeal from there. Again she
went to the girl, but she still refused. As Mrs. Robinson turned to go
she saw her borrow a pencil from her escort and write something in the
back of a hymn book.
A few years afterward Mrs. Robinson went back to the town and was
told the girl was dying. They told her the physicians had just held a
consultation and said she could not live until night. Mrs. Robinson
hurried to her home. The girl looked up, recognized her and said: "I
didn't send for you. You came on your own account, and you're too
late." To every appeal she would reply: "You're too late." Finally she
said: "Go look in the hymn book in the church."
They hurried to the church and looked over the hymn books and found in
the back of one her name and address and these words, "I'll run the
risk; I'll take my chance." That was the last call to her. Not any one
sin is the unpardonable sin, but it may be that constant repetition,
over and over again until God will say: "Take it and go to hell."
Who can commit it? I used to think that only the vile, the profane were
the people who could commit it.
Whom did Jesus warn? The Pharisees. And who were they? The best men,
morally, in Jerusalem.
Who can commit it? Any man or woman who says "No" to Jesus Christ. You
may even defend the Bible. You may be the best man or woman, morally,
in the world. Your name may be synonymous with virtue and purity, but
let God try to get into your heart, let him try to get you to walk down
the aisle and publicly acknowledge Jesus Christ, and your heart and
lips are sealed like a bank vault, and God hasn't been able to pull you
to your feet. And God won't keep on begging you to do it.
Something may say to you, "I ought to be a Christian." This is the
dispensation of the Holy Spirit. God spoke in three dispensations.
First, through the old Mosaic law. Then Jesus Christ came upon this
earth and lived and the Jews and Gentiles conspired to kill him. Then
the Holy Spirit came down at Pentecost and God is speaking through the
Holy Spirit today. The Holy Spirit is pressing you to be a Christian.
It takes the combined efforts of the Trinity to keep you out of
hell--God the Father to provide the plan of salvation, the Holy Spirit
to convict, Jesus Christ to redeem you through his blood, and your
acceptance and repentance to save you. Sin is no trifle.
Representative of the Trinity
The only representative of the Trinity in the world today is the Holy
Ghost. Jesus has been here, but he is not here now--that is, in flesh
and blood. The Holy Ghost is here now. When he leaves the world,
good-bye.
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