"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
Why are we so confident that Billy Sunday is the Lord's own man, when
so many learned critics have declared the contrary? Simply because he
has led more persons to make a public confession of discipleship to
Jesus Christ than any other man for a century past. Making Christians
is, from all angles, the greatest work in the world. Approximately two
hundred and fifty thousand persons, in the past twenty-five years, have
taken Sunday's hand, in token that henceforth their lives belong to the
Saviour.
That amazing statement is too big to be grasped at once. It requires
thinking over. The huge total of dry figures needs to be broken up
into its component parts of living human beings. Tens of thousands of
those men were husbands--hundreds of whom had been separated from their
wives and children by sin. Now, in reunited homes, whole families bless
the memory of the man of God who gave them back husbands and fathers.
Other tens of thousands were sons, over many of whom parents had long
prayed and agonized. It would be hard to convince these mothers, whose
sons have been given back to clean living and to Christian service,
that there is anything seriously wrong with Mr. Sunday's language,
methods or theology. Business men who find that a Sunday revival means
the paying up of the bad bills of old customers are ready to approve
on this evidence a man whose work restores integrity in commercial
relations.
Every conceivable type of humanity is included in that total of a
quarter of a million of Sunday converts. The college professor, the
prosperous business man, the eminent politician, the farmer, the
lawyer, the editor, the doctor, the author, the athlete, the "man about
town," the criminal, the drunkard, the society woman, the college
student, the workingman, the school boy and girl: the whole gamut of
life is covered by the stream of humanity that has "hit the sawdust
trail"--a phrase which has chilled the marrow of every theological
seminary in the land. But the trail leads home to the Father's House.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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