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
“Woman lives on a higher plane morally than man. No woman was ever ruined
that some brute of a man did not take the initiative. Women have kept
themselves purer than men. I believe a good woman is the best thing this
side of heaven, and a bad woman the worst thing this side of hell. I think
they rise higher and sink lower than men. I think she is the purest on
earth or the most degraded on earth. Our homes are on the level with
women. Towns are on the level with homes. Nations are on the level with
towns. What our women are, the towns will be. What the town is the men
will be. The devil and women can damn this world, and Jesus and women can
save this world. The womanhood of the world has to settle the destiny of
the world. I believe there is something unfinished in the makeup of a girl
with the absence of religion. The average girl of today no longer looks
forward to motherhood as the crowning glory of womanhood.”
GIVES ADVICE ON PICKING A HUSBAND.
“Say, girls, don’t simper and look silly when you speak about love. There
is nothing silly about it although some folks are silly because they are
in love; love is the noblest and purest gift to man and womanhood. Don’t
let your actions advertise “Man Wanted Quick.” That is the surest way
not to get a real one. You might get something with pantaloons on, but
that is not a man. Some men should be arrested for going around and being
disguised as men. Don’t get excited and try to hurry things along. If the
man wants you he’ll come around in his good time; and don’t try to do half
the courting. Don’t bestow the love that God gave you to bestow upon a
baby on a poodle dog. Dogs are all right in their places, but their place
is out in the kennel.”
DON’T LET GIRLS MARRY INFIDELS.
“Don’t teach your girls,—mothers,—that the only thing in the world is
to marry. A girl is a big fool to marry an infidel. God says be ye not
unequally yoked with unbelievers. If she does she will have a hard life as
sure as she lives. The offsprings of such marriages either follow in the
footsteps of their father, and go to hell, or cling to their mother and
are sneered at all their life by their father.”
“THY KINGDOM COME.”
If you really pray “Thy Kingdom Come” you will pray with your hands, feet
and money as well as with your voice, every day.
Your religion should mean that you’re going to bring about the conversion
of the world before you sit down to breakfast.
The minister who prays with a true appreciation of “Thy Kingdom Come”
don’t cater to the small highbrow bunch of his church. He puts the cookies
on the bottom shelf.
The man who truly prays “Thy Kingdom Come” won’t slip coppers in the
collection plate and then go home with his head up singing “Jesus Paid It
All.”
When we really mean what we are praying, the old devil won’t own an inch
of this world. We won’t need any penitentiary then, or jails or have any
murders, or young girls robbed of their womanhood.
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