"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
Her majesty, Queen Victoria, was traveling in Scotland when a storm
came up and she took refuge in a little hut of a Highlander. She stayed
there for an hour and when she went the good wife said to her husband,
"We'll tie a ribbon on that chair because her majesty has sat on it and
no one else will ever sit on it." A friend of mine was there later and
was going to sit in the chair when the man cried: "Nae, nae, mon. Dinna
sit there. Her majesty spent an hour with us once and she sat on that
chair and we tied a ribbon on it and no one else will ever sit on it."
They were honored that her majesty had spent the hour with them. It
brought unspeakable joy to them.
It's great that Jesus Christ will sit on the throne of my heart, not
for an hour, but here to sway his power forever and ever.
"He Died for Me"
In the war there was a band of guerillas--Quantrell's band--that had
been ordered to be shot on sight. They had burned a town in Iowa and
they had been caught. One long ditch was dug and they were lined up in
front of it and blindfolded and tied, and just as the firing squad was
ready to present arms a young man dashed through the bushes and cried,
"Stop!" He told the commander of the firing squad that he was as guilty
as any of the others, but he had escaped and had come of his own free
will, and pointed to one man in the line and asked to take his place.
"I'm single," he said, "while he has a wife and babies." The commander
of that firing squad was an usher in one of the cities in which I held
meetings, and he told me how the young fellow was blindfolded and bound
and the guns rang out and he fell dead.
[Illustration: "YOU OLD SKEPTIC, WE ARE COUNTING TIME ON YOU."]
[Illustration: "JOHN, THE DRUNKARD, MARCHING UP TO THE BUTCHER'S SHOP."]
Time went on and one day a man came upon another in a graveyard in
Missouri weeping and shaping the grave into form. The first man asked
who was buried there and the other said, "The best friend I ever had."
Then he told how he had not gone far away but had come back and got the
body of his friend after he had been shot and buried it; so he knew
he had the right body. And he had brought a withered bouquet all the
way from his home to put on the grave. He was poor then and could not
afford anything costly, but he had placed a slab of wood on the pliable
earth with these words on it: "He died for me."
Major Whittle stood by the grave some time later and saw the same
monument. If you go there now you will see something different. The man
became rich and today there is a marble monument fifteen feet high and
on it this inscription:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIE LEE
HE TOOK MY PLACE IN THE LINE
HE DIED FOR ME
Sacred to the memory of Jesus Christ. He took our place on the cross
and gave his life that we might live, and go to heaven and reign with
him.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, confess him with thy mouth, and thou
shalt be saved and thy house."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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