"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 shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" What
will some do? Some will be stoical, some will whimper, some will turn
for human sympathy. Let God answer the question. You would quarrel with
me. "A lake of fire" and "a furnace of fire." "In hell he lifted up
his eyes, being in torment." "Eternal damnation." "The smoke of their
torment ascendeth forever and ever." Let God answer the question. "What
shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?" Will you
say, "God, I didn't have time enough"? "Behold! Now is the accepted
time." Will you say, "God, I had no light?" But "light is come into the
world, and men love darkness rather than light."
I stand on the shores of eternity and cry out, "Eternity! Eternity! How
long, how long art thou?" Back comes the answer, "How long?"
"How long sometimes a day appears and weeks, how long are they?
They move as if the months and years would never pass away;
But months and years are passing by, and soon must all be gone,
Day by day, as the moments fly, eternity comes on.
All these must have an end; eternity has none,
It will always have as long to run as when it first begun."
"What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?"
When Voltaire, the famous infidel, lay dying, he summoned the physician
and said, "Doctor, I will give you all I have to save my life six
months."
The doctor said, "You can't live six hours."
Then said Voltaire, "I'll go to hell and you'll go with me."
A Leap in the Dark
Hobbes, the famous English infidel, said: "I am taking a leap into the
night."
When King Charles IX, who gave the order for the massacre of St.
Bartholomew's day, when blood ran like water and 130,000 fell dead,
when King Charles lay dying, he cried out, "O God, how will it end?
Blood, blood, rivers of blood. I am lost!" And with a shriek he leaped
into hell.
King Philip of Spain said; "I wish to God I had never lived," and then
in a sober thought he said: "Yes, I wish I had, but that I had lived in
the fear and love of God."
Wesley said, "I shall be satisfied when I awake in His likeness."
Florence A. Foster said, "Mother, the hilltops are covered with angels;
they beckon me homeward; I bid you good-bye."
Frances E. Willard cried, "How beautiful to die and be with God."
Moody cried: "Earth recedes, heaven opens, God is calling me. This is
to be my coronation day."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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