SUNDAY ADVISES SOCIETY WOMEN TO SAVE SOULS.
“No doubt you women have a retinue of servants and haven’t dirtied your hands in dishwater for so long that you have forgotten how it feels. But you have souls to save, and don’t wait until just before the undertaker backs up to your door.”
Mr. Sunday took Van Dyke’s sketch, “The Lost Word,” as a theme for his talk. He related how Hermas, the pagan, after accepting Christianity for several years, grew tired of it and sold the Word of Jesus for gold, pleasure and worldly success. He demonstrated to the club women that, if they had ever known Jesus, they could read their heart’s biography.
“Without that word you are nonentities!” said Sunday, “Without that word you are lost. And you can’t find it in society. Do as society wants you to do, and you will not be doing as Jesus wants you to do. If ease, comfort, luxury and the chasing of the phantoms of pleasure have led you away from the old landmarks and moorings, get back, my friends, get back.”
The man that bucks the jackpot until 3 o’clock in the morning is just as good as the church member that plays for a prize.
There’s nothing too hard for God.
If your heart is full of sin you’ll never be satisfied until you get others to sin likewise.
Bad as is physical leprosy, moral leprosy is ten thousand times worse.
Suppose every young man in the city who is a moral leper were compelled and impelled by some uncontrollable impulse to make public the sins you’ve committed.
There’s a day of judgment coming when God will peel off the bark and find many full of wormholes.
Suppose all had glass doors in our hearts. I think we would want stained glass windows, heavy tapestry and thick curtains.
God never made Hell for man. God made Hell for the devil. If you follow the devil you must go to the abode of the devil.
You may live in the most beautiful house and the world passes by your door not knowing of the sadness and sorrow within. But it will out. If the world never finds it out, it’ll meet you at the throne of God.
It’s the men of means, wealth and leisure that support dens of vice.
The devil will let you have an easy time until God asks you to do personal work.
Some people think it is beneath their dignity to do personal work for God.
If it is beneath your dignity to do personal work, then you are above Christ.
If you haven’t got religion enough to smile, there’s a leak in your fountain.
I pity that boy or that girl who has no incentive from a father or mother to be a Christian.
Sissy, that fellow wouldn’t go with you to reform you.
Those most likely to be affected by your sins are those nearest and dearest to you.
Society needs a new division of anathemas. Stop hurling your anathemas at that girl and hurl them at that fellow.
If we only knew the secrets in the hearts and lives of a great many we envy, we would be filled with sadness and sorrow.
I wish to God the church were as afraid of imperfection as it is of perfection.
If the saloon is no place for a boy it’s no place for a man either. You’ll get what’s coming to you, too, before I’m through if you stand with that damnable bunch.
I had to say no to fifteen or twenty cities to come here.
The curse of the church is not so much sins of commission as sins of omission.
Two things I try to do—strengthen the faith and clarify the vision of those that believe; help bring the unsaved to Christ.
Nobody begins to live until they become a Christian. You’re not ready to die unless you’re ready to live.
You can learn something from some politicians—energy and organization.
It won’t be long until the entire State of Iowa is cleared of the liquor traffic. Only twenty counties remain wet and these are going dry with a rapidity almost dazzling.
It’s hard for you to teach the baby how to walk; it’s harder for the baby to learn how to walk.
I never saw a revival movement yet until God’s people fell on their knees and renewed their vows of Christianity.
Personal work is a difficult form of work; more difficult than preachings, singing, attending conventions.
Some things must be faultless to be valuable.
Love is the greatest thing in the world; character the grandest.
You can bury a man, but his character will beat the hearse back from the graveyard.
Don’t your hearts say, you must forsake sin before you can expect pardon?
I will preach with all the power I have against sin, but I will never “bawl” a man out.
God is doing His best to keep men out of hell; men are doing their best to get into hell.
God cannot and will not put the good and bad in the same place.
What did Jesus ever do that was not for the good of humanity?
Jesus Christ never preached a funeral sermon; that was out of his line.
If you are in favor of something Jesus is against, then he does not want you.
Jesus Christ is against all wrong. Are you?
Jesus stands for a square deal all around.
Are you against the saloon? Jesus Christ is.
Jesus Christ was the bravest man who ever lived. I am tired of hearing him referred to as a dough-faced person.
Something is expected of a Godless person that is not of a sinner.
I do not care a rap for your claps or applause unless your acts take the form of living your Christianity.
Without faith there would not be a factory or a bank here.
Nothing was ever accomplished without men first believing something.
The man who is a Christian has life more abundantly than an infidel.
Christ turned houses of mourning into houses of joy.
You act as though you had reached the apex and written “finis” after everything you do. We haven’t learned the a b c’s of what is yet to come in this old world.
There’s a law of gravitation in character as well as in matter.
A saloonkeeper does not enjoy a prayer meeting.
With everything wicked men can do today they try to check religion. Yet religion never will be stopped. You might as well try to dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks.
For twenty-seven and a half years I have been a Christian. I defy the devil or anyone else on earth or in hell to prove that I don’t live what I preach.
A motorman might as well try to run his car up yonder hill by blowing his breath against the front vestibule as to expect salvation without Jesus Christ.
You can’t stop religion by making fun of it.
If it’s wrong for me to hit the booze, it’s wrong for you.
God says, if you give me a chance, old man, I can make you sober and keep you sober.
Take out of this town what Christianity has done for it and its real estate would not be worth ten cents by Christmas.
Do not be deluded to believing that all you need is sincerity of thought. A man may believe he can handle nitro-glycerine with impunity, but if he does he will be slivered into atoms.
I know Jesus made good with me. Has he with you?
Wherever Jesus’ teachings have gone joy has followed.
Jesus Christ has crowned womanhood and placed garlands on her head.
Some men bequeath disease and cravings for drink to their children.
If Paul and Silas had looked as gloomy as some of you coming to the Tabernacle that man in jail would not be liberated yet.
Jesus bled and died to save you. Whosoever will.
I am traveling to heaven according to a time-card, the gospel schedule.
BILLY SUNDAY AT THE AGES OF 14 AND 18 YEARS.