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William Ashley (Billy) Sunday
1862 - 1935

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American Evangelist

“ I’m against sin.  I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist.  I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head.  I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth.  And when I’m old and fist less and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition! ”

William A. Sunday was born November 19, 1862, in a two-room log cabin near Ames, Iowa.  His father was in the Union army then, where he soon died of pneumonia so Billy never knew his father.

The evangelist died November 6, 1935, at the age of 72.  His funeral was held in Moody Church, Chicago, with the sermon by H. A. Ironside, pastor.

Sunday held some three hundred crusades in thirty-nine years.  It is estimated that a hundred million heard him speak in great tabernacles before public address systems were invented.  And more than a million people made a profession of faith in Christ as Saviour under his preaching.

He was probably the most spectacular evangelist since John the Baptist.  His long-time associate, Dr. Homer Rodeheaver, called him “the greatest gospel preacher since the Apostle Paul.”

Billy was outfielder on the Chicago White Stockings baseball team when he was converted.  One night, with baseball cronies, he heard a group singing on the streets of Chicago, “Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?”—his mother’s favorite song. He went to Pacific Garden Mission and was converted.

[ Thanks to: SwordOfTheLord.com ]

 SOME OF BILLY SUNDAY'S SERMONS

Atonement Through the Blood of Jesus Backsliding Broken Down Altars The Curse of Liquor! The Curse of the Saloon Gethsemane He That Winneth Souls is Wise Motherhood The Need For Revivals The Second Coming of Christ

Shew Thyself a Man Spiritual Food for a Hungry World The Devil's Boomerangs! Teach Us To Pray Theater, Cards and Dance The Old Time Religion! Why Delay Your Real Conversion? Wonderful What Shall I Do Then With Jesus? Under the Sun