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Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ (Classic Reprint)
Billy Sunday the Man and His Message With His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ - Classic Reprint Author:William T. Ellis One of God's Tools — I want to be a giant for God.-Billy Sunday. — HEAVEN often plays jokes on earth's worldly-wise. After the consensus of experience and sagacity has settled upon a certain course and type, lo, all the profundity of the sages is blown away as a speck of dust and we have, say, a shockingly unconventional John the Baptist, who does... more » not follow the prescribed rules in dress, training, methods or message. John the Baptist was God's laugh at the rabbis and the Pharisees.
In an over-ecclesiastical age, when churchly authority had reached the limit, a poor monk, child of a miner's hut, without influence or favor, was called to break the power of the popes, and to make empires and reshape history, flinging his shadow far down the centuries. Martin Luther was God's laugh at ecclesiasticism.
While the brains and aristocracy and professional statesmanship of America struggled in vain with the nation's greatest crisis, God reached down close to the soil of the raw and ignore
Table of Contents
Preface 5; Contents 7; CHAPTER I One of God's Tools; God's Man Sent in God's Time-Sunday's Converts-Religion and the Common People-A Great City Shaken by the Gospel-Popular Interest in Vital Religion- Sunday a Distinctively American Type 15; CHAPTER II Up from the Soil s; Sunday's Sympathy with Every-day Folk-Early Life-The Soldiers' Orphanage-The Old Farm-Earning a Living -The School of Experience-First Base-ball Ventures 22; CHAPTER III A Base-Ball "Star" Fame as a Base-ball Player-Eagerness to "Take a Chance" -Record Run on the Day Following his Conversion- The Parting of the Ways 33; CHAPTER IV; A Curbstone Recruit; Mrs Clark and the Pacific Garden Mission-Sunday's Own Story of his Conversion-Winning the Game of Life 39; CHAPTER V Playing the New Game; The Individuality of the Man-His Marriage-Mrs Sunday's Influence-Work in the Y M C A-A Father Disowned-Redeeming a Son-The Gambler« less