"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
What does that prove? It proves that if you are not converted before
you are thirty years old the chances are about 100,000 to one that you
never will be converted.
Power of Revivals
Most people are converted at special revival services. I want to
hurl this in the teeth, cram it down the throats of those who sneer
at revival efforts--preachers included. Almost nine-tenths of the
Christians at this meeting were converted at a revival. What does that
show? It shows that if you are thirty and have not been converted, the
chances are that if you are not converted at this revival you never
will be converted.
If it weren't for revivals, just think of what hell would be like. Then
think of any low-down, God-forsaken, dirty gang knocking a revival.
God says: "You can spurn my love and trample the blood under your
feet, but if you seek my pardon I will forgive you." You might have
been indifferent to the appeals of the minister, you might have been a
thief, or an adulterer, or a blasphemer, or a scoffer, and all that,
but God says: "I will forgive you." You might have been indifferent to
the tears of poor wife and children and friends, but if you will seek
God he will forgive you.
But when He came down and revealed himself as the Son of God through
the Holy Spirit, if you sneer and say it is not true, your sin may
become unpardonable. If you don't settle it here you never will settle
it anywhere else.
I will close with a word of comfort and a word of warning. If you have
a desire to be a Christian it is proof that the devil hasn't got you
yet. That is the comfort. Now for the warning: If you have that desire
thank God for it and yield to it. You may never have another chance.
CHAPTER XXX
Eternity! Eternity!
I tell you a lot of people are going to be fooled on the Day of
Judgment.--BILLY SUNDAY.
Only a man to whom has been given eloquence and a dramatic instinct
can drive home to the average mind the realities of eternity and its
relation to right living in this world and time. Under the title "What
Shall the End Be?" Sunday has widely circulated his message upon this
theme:
"WHAT SHALL THE END BE?"
No book ever came by luck or chance. Every book owes its existence
to some being or beings, and within the range and scope of human
intelligence there are but three things--good, bad and God. All that
originates in intellect; all which the intellect can comprehend, must
come from one of the three. This book, the Bible, could not possibly
be the product of evil, wicked, godless, corrupt, vile men, for it
pronounces the heaviest penalties against sin. Like produces like, and
if bad men were writing the Bible they never would have pronounced
condemnation and punishment against wrong-doing. So that is pushed
aside.
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