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
“If you are going to win out you must have grit. That means you must be
able to say “no” when asked to do wrong, so loud it will stagger hell.
Or “yes” so loud it will gladden the angels of God. Put up your dukes and
fight the devil.”
HONOR YOUR WIFE BEFORE SHE DIES.
“Don’t wait until your wife dies before you brag on her. Tell her
that coffee was fine. Tell her how you like those biscuits—not those
big four-story ones, but the little flat fellows with crust on both
sides—that’s the kind I like. Think of the days you bought her gumdrops
and candy hearts with reading on them. I wish I had all the money I’ve
spent on candy hearts with reading on them. You’ve bought ’em, too, you
fellows, haven’t you? Ha, ha! Thought so! (Here Mr. Sunday recited the
poem, “Kiss Her.”) Some fellows pet dogs more than they pet their wives.
“Play with the children. You say, ‘Bill, I haven’t any.’ I say, ‘Then get
some.’”
TWO PICTURES OF AMERICAN HOMES.
I think one of the prettiest pictures ever looked upon is to see a father
with the religion of Jesus Christ in his heart, and a mother with the
religion of Jesus Christ in her heart, and to see them throw their arms
about their eldest child, and the oldest child throw his arms about their
next oldest child, and that child take the next oldest child by the hand,
and on until the youngest and all with happiness in their hearts and songs
on their lips, start for heaven.
And I think the blackest, darkest picture ever looked upon is to see
a father without the religion of Jesus Christ in his heart, and a
be-frizzled society woman without the religion of Jesus Christ in her
heart, and the next oldest child, and on down until the baby in the
cradle, and to see that father and mother lock arms and all start to hell,
like many of them are doing today.
KIND WORDS TO HELP CHILDREN.
There are fewer things more important in the home than conversation.
Think of the good you can do in your home with your voice. You use it to
give pain, but the conversation in your home ought to be loving. In many
homes they have no conversation. There is no affectionate greeting in
the morning when the children start for school, no little kiss to linger
on their lips, and when they come home at noon, hungry, there is no kind
greeting. The old man never says a word unless he growls for you to pass
something, and so far as anyone would know, you would be in a deaf and
dumb asylum. No fireside chats with the children.
You are down at some fool club, some lodge; you are off to some literary
social, beer and wine-drinking hell, and you let your children go to the
devil. You turn them over to some nurse, whose only interest in the child
is so many dollars per week.
EVANGELIST PAYS TRIBUTE TO WIFE.
Sunday humorously complimented his wife at the tabernacle meeting Thursday
night. He quoted “Battling” Nelson’s statement that Mrs. Sunday was worth
$10,000,000.00, but said Bat had the estimate too low.
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