"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
"Oh, God, what is man, that thou art mindful of him?" And the fool, the
fool, the fool hath said in his heart, "There is no God." I'm not an
infidel, because I am no fool. "The Heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament showeth his handiwork." I don't believe an infidel
ever looked through a telescope or studied astronomy.
"What is man, that thou are mindful of him?" These are days when it
is "Big man, little God." These are days when it is gigantic "I," and
pigmy "God." These are days when it is "Ponderous man, infinitesimal
God."
There are 1,400,000,000 people on earth. You are one of that number,
so am I. None of us amount to much. What do you or I amount to out of
1,400,000,000 people? If I could take an auger and bore a hole in the
top of the sun, I could pour into the sun 1,400,000,000 worlds the
size of the planet upon which we live, and there would be room in the
sun for more. Then think of the world, and God made that world, the
God that you cuss, the God that wants to keep you out of hell, the God
whose Son you have trampled beneath your feet.
If you take 1,400,000,000, multiply it by 1,400,000, multiply that by
1,000,000, multiply that by millions, multiply that by infinity, that's
God. If you take 1,400,000,000, subtract 1,400,000, subtract millions,
subtract, subtract, subtract, subtract on down, that's you. If ever
a man appears like a consummate ass and an idiot, it's when he says
he don't believe in a God or tries to tell God his plan of redemption
don't appeal to him.
God's Infinite Love
And the third: The third is the love of God to a lost and sin-cursed
world and man's indifference to God's love. How he has trampled God's
love beneath his feet, I don't understand. I don't understand why you
have grown gray-haired, and are not a Christian. I don't understand
why you know right from wrong, and still are not a Christian. I don't
understand it. Listen! What is it to obey the Gospel? The Gospel is
good news, and to obey it is to believe in Jesus. What is it not to
obey? What was the end of those who weren't in the ark with Noah? They
found a watery grave. What was the end of those who didn't look at
the brazen serpent in the wilderness? They died. What was the end of
those who were not with Rahab when she hung out the scarlet line? They
perished.
When a man starts on a journey he has one object in view--the end. A
journey is well, if it ends well. We are all on a journey to eternity.
What will be the end? My text doesn't talk about the present. Your
present is, or may be, an enviable position in church, club life, or
commercial life, lodge, politics; your presence may be sought after to
grace every social gathering. God doesn't care about that. What shall
the end be? When all that is gone, when pleasures pass away, and
sorrow and weeping and wailing take their place, what shall the end be?
[Illustration: SNOWBALLING IN JUNE. BILLY SUNDAY AND PARTY ON PIKE'S
PEAK.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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