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 WILLIAM ASHLEY (BILLY) SUNDAY 1862 - 1935 William Ashley
Sunday was born in Ames, Iowa as the son of a Civil War soldier, on November 19, 1862,
grandson of German immigrants. Because his father died when he was less than a year old,
"Billy" was raised in an orphanage. His young days were hard, working in a hotel
and later for Colonel John Scott.
During high school young Sunday worked as a janitor, and held a number of odd jobs until
1883, when he was discovered by Chicago White Stockings manager "Cap" Anson. He
then joined the "White Sox," becoming a professional baseball player; he played
in the major leagues for seven years. He was converted to Christ in 1886 after hearing
hymns sung by the Pacific Garden Mission and through the street preaching of Harry Monroe
in Chicago.
Sunday gave up his baseball career in March, 1891 to become an assistant YMCA secretary.
After three years of work at the YMCA and acting as assistant to Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman,
Sunday began preaching in his own services. He was ordained to the ministry in 1903 by the
Presbytery of Chicago. Sunday preached in the army camps during World War I and later held
city-wide meetings in the various cities across America. He refused to accept invitations
offered him to go abroad.
Sunday's sensationalistic "fire and brimstone" preaching was incredibly popular.
In one meeting in Philadelphia over 2.3 million attended his crusade during a period of
eight weeks. He traveled from town to town, holding revival meetings in temporary wooden
tabernacles, condemning liquor, and other sins of the modern age. Sunday held campaigns
for over twenty years and literally "burned out for Christ." At the close of
each service throngs of people came forward and grasped the evangelist's hand to signify
their conversion. Such action was called "hitting the sawdust trail" because the
tabernacle floors were covered with sawdust. Sunday was noted for acrobatic feats on the
platform as he preached.
The worst ever said of him was that he occasionally let his humor run wild; the best ever
said about him was that he reached a million lives for Christ - the drunken, the down and
out, the homeless, the common man. His blazing-fisted bare-handed evangelism lives in
American history. He was probably a factor in preparing the country for the passage of the
Eighteenth (Liquor prohibition) Amendment to the US Constitution.
Billy Sunday died of a heart attack in Chicago, November 6, 1935; services were held in
the Moody Memorial Church with 4,400 present. |
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from the historic motion picture about Billy Sunday with Homer Rodeheaver - Narrated by Mel Dibble Length =
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To Glory {Very Rare Collection} Cd |
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the voices of some preachers who have Gone to Glory: Dwight L. Moody, Ira Sankey, Billy
Sunday {Prohibition}{Anti-Booze}{Open Air Meeting}, George W. Truett,
Harry A. Ironside, William Bell Riley, Rodney (Gipsy) Smith, Charles N. Alexander, Mel
Trotter, General Wiliam Booth {Please Sir Save Me}{Don't Forget}{Rope Wanted}{Through
Jordan}, Wilber Chapman, Homer Rodeheaver, John Brown, Peter Marshall.
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From Glory {Very Rare Collection} Cd |
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the voices of some preachers who have Gone to Glory:
Dwight L. Moody, Ira Sankey {1840-1908 Sings "God be with you till we meet
again"}, Billy Sunday, J. Wilber Chapman {1859-1918}, Charles N. Alexander
{1867-1920 Sings the Glory Chorus}, Charles F. Weigle, Charles Edward Fuller {1887-1968}, Homer
Rodeheaver {1880-1955 Singing "When Jesus Comes"}, Rodney (Gipsy) Smith
{1860-1947 Sings I can hear my Saviour calling}, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones Sr.
{1883-1968}, Martin R. Dehaun {Speak on the coming of Christ}, Robert G. Lee {1886-1978
Preaches payday Sunday}, John Richard Rice {1895-1980}, Oliver B. Green {Preaching
in a tent meeting}, John Frank Norris {1877-1952 Giving the testimony of the conversion of
Sam Jones}
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