Rev. Wm. A. Sunday Mrs. Sunday
B. D. Ackley
PIANIST AND PRIVATE SECRETARY
Homer A. Rodeheaver
CHOIR MASTER
Rev. L. K. Peacock
ASSISTANT

Burning Truths from
Billy’s Bat

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

1914
Diamond Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Copyright, 1914,
By JOSEPH PALLEN

CONTENTS

PAGE
Mr. Sunday’s Early Life[9]
Conversion of “Billy” Sunday[9]
Beacon Lights on Billy’s Trail[16]
Hard to Keep Good Man Down[17]
Honor Your Wife[18]
Two Pictures of American Homes[18]
Kind Words to Children[19]
Tribute to Wife[20]
Scores Smart Set[20]
Father Gives Up, but Mother Doesn’t[22]
Bright Word Picture to Mothers[22]
Bravest Battle Ever Fought[22]
One Act, One Word Will Blight a Child[23]
Touching Tribute to Mother’s Love[24]
Every Child a Trust to Mother[25]
Says Men Are What Mothers Make Them[26]
Songs of Mothers Sweetest[26]
Gathering Up the Sunbeams[28]
Start Children Right[28]
Dancing Worst of Amusements[29]
Ballroom Permits Liberties[30]
On Motherhood[31]
Too Many Girls Are Not in Love[32]
High Spots in Sermon to Women[32]
Picking a Husband[33]
Thy Kingdom Come[34]
Hot Shots on Cards and Gambling[36]
Taboo on Theatre[39]
Taboo on Wedding Knots[40]
Every Palace Not a Home[41]
Drawing the Line on Christians[42]
The Preachers and the Laymen[44]
Belshazzar’s Feast[45]
A Remarkable Prayer[47]
Hitting the Sawdust Trail, Origin[49]
Trying to Serve God and the Devil[50]
Inconsistent Church Members[50]
Christians Can’t Live Double Lives[51]
A High Tribute to General Lee[52]
Expose of Graft Stories[53]
Women Have Same Right as Men[54]
Backsliders Like Groundhogs[57]
True to Lodge, False to Christ[57]
Sunday to Society Women[58]
Consolation for Old Maids[66]
Girls Who Flirt[66]
Drinking and Matrimony[67]
Says Society’s to Blame[68]
Some Extra Shots[68]
Billy’s Sketch of Leper Bathing[69]
Snapshots from Sermons[71]
A Trip Through the Bible[72]
Defends Divine Origin of the Bible[74]
Spiritualism on the Grill[75]
Straight Shots from the Shoulder[75]
Others Suffer from Your Sins[79]
Lessons from Story of Pilate[80]
Moral Truths[80]
These Three Will Ruin City[81]
Billy’s Key to Success[82]
A Few Bunts to Live Students[84]
Tribute to the Holidays[85]
Living Up to One’s Profession[89]
Stray Shots from the Gallery[89]
Some Hot Ones, Fired at Random[90]
A Characteristic Prayer[90]
Sunday’s Bombshells[92]
Sundayisms[96]
Sunday’s Prayer for Strength[98]
Faith of Great Men[99]
Bible Above All[99]
Some Home Runs[100]
Up to Mothers[100]
Electric Flashes[101]
Sunday on Evolution[103]