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 — John Shaqi
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
“God has marked out the same path for men and for women to follow. Away
with the hellish doctrine of a double standard of living in this twentieth
century. It makes no difference whether the one who sins wears a plug hat
or a petticoat. Young fellow, your sister has as good a right to live as
you do, as you have. She has as good a right to walk up street smoking a
cigaret as you have. Your wife has as good a right to line up before a
bar and put 10 beers under her belt as you have. She has as good a right
to go to the corner grocery in the evening and sit around and put her
feet up on the stove and settle the questions of the day, as you have.
She has as good a right as you have to walk down street with a half a
plug of Lorillard’s sticking out of her mouth and spit enough to drown a
jackrabbit as you have. I wouldn’t clean out your old spittoon for you.
I’d throw it at your old head. Yes, sir. Mop up your own slop, you old
hog.”
[Illustration: WHEN THE TABERNACLE SERVICES ARE OVER.]
SAYS BACKSLIDERS LIKE GROUNDHOGS.
“The invitation is never given at a revival but there are those who will
respond to it and for a time will live as Christians should. Then, when
the revival is over and the routine of everyday life begins, they slip
gradually back into their former ways. They are like the groundhog. When
spring comes the groundhog awakes from his winter’s sleep and emerges into
the sunlight and lives an active life until the storms of winter come
again. Then he crawls into his hole of hibernation and falls into a sleep
of months. Oh, it is easy to think of things divine when the revival is on
and there is inspiration on every side and the bands are playing and the
crowds are marching. These groundhog people have family prayer then, and
they attend to their religious duties faithfully, but when the revival is
over they begin to relapse into their old ways.”
TRUE TO LODGE; FALSE TO CHRIST.
“They tell me a lodge man will share his last dollar with a needy person,
die for the widow or the orphan, put his head on the track ahead of the
Twentieth Century Limited or allow himself to be shot to pieces before he
would be false to the vows he took amid the scent of the orange blossoms.
That sounds like a good man; but there are lots of men who will be true in
all these things, and false to Jesus Christ. They will go to church and
partake of the communion, then will go out and line up in front of some
bar or tell smutty stories. True in business, true in society, true in the
home, but a perjurer in the sight of God. If you are such a man you are a
backslider—a backslider, sir, and a liar.”
“Girls, you are a fool if you will walk along the street with a fellow who
smokes a cigaret as he walks with you. He wouldn’t walk with you if you
smoked one.”
SUNDAY ADVISES SOCIETY WOMEN TO SAVE SOULS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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