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
You would not want your son to live like you, if you are not living right.
A young buck that cusses will crush your daughter’s honor like he would an
eggshell.
If you never become religious, men, for God’s sake stop your cussing.
Like produces like in everything.... Blood will tell.
SAYS THESE THREE WILL RUIN CITY.
“No man can be a good husband, no man can be a good father, no man can be
a respectable citizen, no man can be a gentleman, and cuss. You can hang
out a sign of gentleman, but when you cuss you might as well take it in.
“There are three things which will ruin any town, open license saloons,
open stores on the Sabbath day and a dirty, cussing, swearing gang of
blacklegs on the streets. Let a town be known for these three things, and
these alone, and you could never start a boom half big enough to get one
man there.”
“You can’t go anywhere any more, in a car, a depot, a restaurant, but
what you find some fiend with his foul-mouthed oaths ready to spew them
out. What an awful place hell will be when it gets all of that bunch down
there.”
“Say, boys, if I was on a jury and you could prove to me that a father
had stolen a loaf of bread to keep his wife from starving, you could keep
me in the room until the ants took me out through the keyhole before I’d
stick him. That may not be law, I don’t know, but you’ll find there is a
big streak of humanity in Bill.”
DO GOD’S WILL.
He told the women that it was not sufficient to be familiar with all the
poets and the books of etiquette to get into heaven. The one essential
thing is the doing of the will of God, he said.
Mr. Sunday showed through the story of Lady Anne Erskine of Rome, how the
devil and Christ are bidding for their souls—the devil offering beauty,
pleasure, adulation and ease; Jesus promising peace, joy and eternal
happiness—and it was left to them to choose.
BILLY’S KEYS TO SUCCESS.
“Dig the foundation deep, young man;
Plant firm the outer wall.
Build it well what ere you do;
Build it straight and strong and true;
Build it clean and high and broad,
Build it for the eye of God.”
Have some definite aim in life. Don’t drift ’round and ’round like a log
in a whirlpool.
Do the best you can and you will win; God could not ask more than that.
Not only aim high, but muster up enough power to pierce the opposition and
to ring the bell.
Don’t try to build character with a whisky bottle, a pack of cards, a
libertine life and cigarets. Put the Bible and Jesus Christ in your life
instead.
Be careful what you read. Don’t read bad, worthless books.
Don’t assassinate every noble desire that comes to you.
Get a good introduction of yourself to yourself and find out how little
you really know.
Cut out the cigarets, boys, or they’ll cut you out. Just take that from
your Uncle Fuller.
Have the grit of Sampson in your system so that you won’t tremble when the
lions roar.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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