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Author of "How tb Win Friends
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BILLY SUNDAY
The Ballplayer Who Led A Million Souls
Down The Sawdust Trail
To Salvation
The most popular preacher in
the history of the Christian pul
pit was an ex-boozefighter and
the ex-ball-player—Billy Sunday.
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thirds of all the men, women and
children in America—flocked to
hear his rough-and-ready, rip
snorting message of sin and sal
vation.
I saw Billy Sunday many times.
He was a fury, a human dynamo
in trousers. I saw him thump his
chest, tear off his coat, collar and
tie, leap up on a chair, stand with
one foot on the pulpit, and then
fling himself on the floor in imi
tation of a ball-player sliding into
home plate. Nobody ever went to
sleep listening to Billy Sunday.
His sermons were as entertaining
as a circus. He preached so stren
uously that he carried a physical
trainer with him and never a day
passed that he didn't get a pum
meling and a rub-down.
Unlike most evangelists, Billy
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Sunday appealed mostly to men.
He used to say: "I am a lube of
the rubes. The odor of the barn
yard is on me, yet. I have greased
my hair with goose grease and
blacked my boots with stove
blacking. I have wiped my old
proboscis with a gunny-sack tow
el, I have drunk coffee out of my
saucer, and I have eaten with my
knife. I have said 'done it' when
I should have said 'did it' and I
have said 'I have saw' when I
should have said 'I have seen,'
and I expect to go to heaven just
the same."
He was born in a log cabin in
lowa and reared in an orphan
asylum. When he was fifteen, he
got a job as janitor in a school.
This job paid him $25.00 a month
and gave him a chance to get an
education. All he had to do was
to get up at two o'clock in the
morning, carry coal for fourteen
stoves, keep all fourteen fires go
ing during the day, sweep and
polish the floors, and then keep
abreast of his studies.
His first real job was as assist
ant to an undertaker in Marshall
town, lowa. It was while hold
ing down that job that he began
to make a name for himself as a
ballplayer.
He could run the bases so fast
that Pop Anson, a leader of the
Chicago White Sox, sent for him;
and before Billy Sunday was
twenty-one, he was a star per
former in the big leagues. "I could
circle those bases In fourteen
seconds," he used to say, "and
that's a record that's never been
beaten."
It was five years after he left
the undertaker's shop that the
revelation occurred which chang
ed him from a hard-drinking
ballplayer into the most hynoptic
preacher since the days of John
Wesley.
Here is what happened to him
—and now I am quoting, Billy
Sunday's own words:
"One day in 1887, I was walk
ing down a street in Chicago in
company with some famous ball
players. We went into a saloon. It
was Sunday afternoon and we got
tanked up and then went and sat
down on a corner. Across the
street a company of men and
women were playing on instru
ments—horns, flutes and 'slide
trombones and the others were
singing the gospel hymns that I
used to hear my mother sing
back in the long cabin in lowa,
and I sobbed and sobbed. Then a
young man stepped out and said,
'We are going down to the Pacific
Garden Mission. Won't you come
down to the Mission with us? .1
am sure you will enjoy it. You will
hear drunkards tell how they
have been saved and girls tell
how they have been saved from
the red-light district.'
"I arose and said to the boys,
'l'm through, I am going to Jesus
Christ. We've come to the parting
of the ways,' and I turned my
back on them. Some of them
laughed and some of them mocked
me; but one of them gave me en
couragement."
That is the way he described
his own conversion.
The skeptics and scoffers used
to accuse Billy Sunday of exploit
ing religious hunger for the mere
sake of money. Yet the truth is, he
gave up a salary of five hundred
dollars a month as a ball player
to work for the Y. M. C. A. for
eighty-three dollars a month
and it was sometimes six months
before he collected even that!
I remember Billy Sunday when
he came to New York in 1917.
Never before or since has the
town called Babylon-on-the-
Hudson seen such a frenzy of re
ligious excitement. His arrival
was heralded months in advance.
At least twenty thousand prayer
meetings were held in preparation
for his coming.
During his stay in New York,
Billy Sunday preached to a mil
lion and a quarter people, and
nearly a hundred thousand sin
ners came forward and renounc
ed their evil ways.
Copyright, 1937
ELKIN YOUTH WINS
HONOR AT N. C. STATE
Included in the bids sent out
today by Blue Key, National Hon
or Fraternity with chapters in 72
colleges throughout the country,
was one to Russell Burcham of
Elkin, a Junior in the Textile
School of North Carolina State
College, Raleigh.
Two seniors and five juniors
were extended bids to the frater
nity which recognizes scholarship,
campus leadership, and moral
character, as primary require
ments for admission.
Burcham is president of the
junior class; a member of Phi
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Psi, honorary textile fraternity;
a member of Upsllon Sigma Al
pha, honorary military fraternity;
a member of the college publica
tions board; and a member of
The Technician, campus news
weekly.
Burcham's election brings the
number of Elkin boys who are
members of Blue Key fraternity
to two in the last year.
Charles Dunnagan, business
manager of The Technician, Pret
ident of North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association, member of Gol
den Chain, senior honorary so
ciety; State College Publications
Board, Upsllon Sigma Alpha,
Scabbard and Blade, Order of 30
& 3, Phi Psi, the Monogram Club,
Red Masquers, college dramatic
society and head cheerleader, was
elected into Blue Key last fall.
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