"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
Going to the World's Fair in Chicago, a special train on the Grand
Trunk, going forty miles an hour, dashed around a curve at Battle
Creek, and headed in on a sidetrack where a freight train stood. The
rear brakeman had forgotten to close the switch and the train rounded
the curve, dashed into the open switch and struck the freight train
loaded with iron, and there was an awful wreck. The cars telescoped
and the flames rushed out. Pinioned in the wreck, with steel girders
bent around her, was a woman who lived in New York. Her name was Mrs.
Van Dusen. She removed her diamond ear-rings, took her gold watch
and chain from about her neck, slipped her rings from her fingers
and handing out her purse gave her husband's address, and then said:
"Gentlemen, stand back! I am a Christian and I will die like a
Christian."
They leaped to their task. They tore like demons to liberate her and
she started to sing,
"My heavenly home is bright and fair.
I'm going to die no more."
Strong men, who had looked into the cannon's mouth, fainted. She cried
out, above the roar of the wind and the shrieks of the dying men, "Oh,
men, don't imperil your lives for me. I am a Christian and I will
die like a Christian! Stand back, men," and then she began to sing,
"Nearer, My God, to Thee."
"The End Thereof"
"There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are
the ways of death." Moses may have made some mistakes, but I want to
tell you Moses never made a mistake when he wrote these words: "Their
rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being the judges."
He never made a mistake when he wrote these words. I say to you, you
are going to live on and on until the constellations of the heavens are
snuffed out. You are going to live on and on until the rocks crumble
into dust through age. You are going to live on and on and on, until
the mountain peaks are incinerated and blown by the breath of God to
the four corners of infinity. "What shall the end be?" Listen! Listen!
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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