Burning truths from Billy's bat : $b A graphic description of the remarkable conversion of Rev. "Billy" Sunday (the world's famous evangelist)—embodying anecdotes, terse sayings, etc., compiled from various sourcesSunday, Billy
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Burning truths from Billy's bat : $b A graphic description of the remarkable conversion of Rev. "Billy" Sunday (the world's famous evangelist)—embodying anecdotes, terse sayings, etc., compiled from various sources
Sunday, Billy
Christian life; Conduct of life; Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 -- Anecdotes
When a girl gets so low that she’ll smoke and drink, she is on the
toboggan slide and going to hell fast.
And you fellows like to “sit out” a dance. I always did think it was a
foolish proposition to gallop a mile to get a hug.
The round and square dances look alike to me. It doesn’t take very long to
cut the corners off.
There was a time in America when the stately cotillion seemed to satisfy,
but it is too slow now for the hot blood of the Twentieth Century. The
young people must have something that will chase hurdles through their
veins.
WHAT BILLY SAID ON MOTHERHOOD.
“I don’t believe there is an angel in heaven that would not come to earth
and be honored with motherhood if God would grant them that privilege.
Like produces like in animals and in human beings. Blood will tell in
horses, sheep, quadruped and in human beings. A consumptive mother will
produce a consumptive child, and the same is true of its paternity. It
is time to lay aside mock modesty. You can’t trifle with God’s rules.
Society has just about put maternity out of fashion. When you stop to
consider the average society woman I do not think maternity has lost
anything. The child of affluence is turned over to nurses at birth and is
fed on prepared foods and knows nothing of its mother. The children of
humbler homes are raised by their mothers, instead of being turned over to
governesses. These mothers spend their time in bridge parties, gadding,
and fondling pet dogs; no wonder men go to the clubs. No man wants to
play second fiddle to a bow-legged bulldog. I am sure I would not!”
TOO MANY GIRLS ARE NOT IN LOVE.
“There are too many girls marry for other causes than love. I think
ambition, indolence, avarice, laziness and indifference lead more girls to
the altar than love. Girls not actuated by the noblest of human feeling,
but simply willing to pay the price for a good time. They are not moved
by the nobler desires of manhood and womanhood. Maternity is the highest
possible gift of God to woman. The up-to-date women pride themselves on
their criminal knowledge. Some girls marry for society, some marry for
home, some marry for ease, some marry to reform man; he wouldn’t marry you
to reform you—you little fool. It is no easier to make a kingly husband
out of a beer-soaked, cigaret-smoking specimen of a man than a prostitute
can make a queenly wife.”
HIGH SPOTS IN BILLY’S SERMON TO WOMEN.
_Up to Women to Save World._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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