"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
You don't believe in quick conversions? There have been a dozen men of
modern times who have been powers for God whose conversion was as quiet
as Matthew's. Charles G. Finney never went to a camp meeting. He was
out in the woods alone, praying, when he was converted. Sam Jones, a
mighty man of God, was converted at the bedside of his dying father.
Moody accepted Christ while waiting on a customer in a boot and shoe
store. Dr. Chapman was converted as a boy in a Sunday school. All the
other boys in the class had accepted Christ, and only Wilbur remained.
The teacher turned to him and said, "And how about you, Wilbur?" He
said, "I will," and he turned to Christ and has been one of his most
powerful evangelists for many years. Gipsy Smith was converted in his
father's tent. Torrey was an agnostic, and in comparing agnosticism,
infidelity and Christianity, he found the scale tipped toward Christ.
Luther was converted as he crawled up a flight of stairs in Rome.
Seemingly the men who have moved the world for Christ have been
converted in a quiet manner. The way to judge a tree is by its fruit.
Judge a tree of quiet conversion in this way.
Another lesson. When conversion compels people to forsake their
previous calling, God gives them a better job. Luke said, "He left
all." Little did he dream that his influence would be world-reaching
and eternity-covering. His position as tax-collector seemed like a big
job, but it was picking up pins compared to the job God gave him. Some
of you may be holding back for fear of being put out of your job. If
you do right God will see that you do not suffer. He has given plenty
of promises, and if you plant your feet on them you can defy the
poor-house. Trust in the Lord means that God will feed you. Following
Christ you may discover a gold mine of ability that you never dreamed
of possessing. There was a saloon-keeper, converted in a meeting at New
Castle, who won hundreds of people to Christ by his testimony and his
preaching.
You do not need to be in the church before the voice comes to you; you
don't need to be reading the Bible; you don't need to be rich or poor
or learned. Wherever Christ comes follow. You may be converted while
engaged in your daily business. Men cannot put up a wall and keep Jesus
away. The still small voice will find you.
At the Cross-roads
Right where the two roads through life diverge God has put Calvary.
There he put up a cross, the stumbling block over which the love of God
said, "I'll touch the heart of man with the thought of father and son."
He thought that would win the world to him, but for nineteen hundred
years men have climbed the Mount of Calvary and trampled into the earth
the tenderest teachings of God.
You are on the devil's side. How are you going to cross over?
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