The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-23
BILLY SUNDAYS
CHOICE REMARKS

Billy Sunday, the revivalist, is hold
Ing meetings at Sharon, Pa. A few
of the more choice things he got off
In a sermon the other day are as fol-
lows:
We have too much sweating for the
devil in the church.
A man who keeps his store open on
Sunday is an anarchist.
There is no difficulty to him who
wills. Put that in religion.
The atmosphere of ten cent leg
show is bad place for anyone.
we are locking the switch and CIV
ing the devil the main line.
Wen conquer in this fight when the
men of the church will not sell out
to the devil
Lots of people in the church never
backslide. They never get any place
to backslide from.
Backsliding is knowing a richer ex-
perience in grace than you know to-
night.
never saw dancing or card playing
ing church member who was worth
two whoops this side of hell.
It's one thing to be a member of the
church and another thing to be
member of the body of Christ.
Show the world that you haven't got
yellow streak in you when 1t comes
to work.
II you start out expecting to offend
nobody, you are a hzzle before you
begin.
We have a lot of people who talk
heaven, but who are going the other
way.
I wouldn't want Christ to come back
and see me competing for BOBBY
prize in a card party.
We have got people in the churches
who wear out ffty-five pairs of hold
backs to one pair of tugs.
There IS a whole lot going on be-
hind the name of clubs that would
not look good in the newspapers.
Sleeping for the mind and body is a
good thing. but for the moral and
spiritual life it is a bad thing.
If God was no more anxious to save
people than you folks are to see them
saved, things would be in an awful fix
Some people read the good-for-noth-
ing novels and let the Bible mtldew on
the table.
A backsIider is liar, one who is
70 SO0 anu the VOW WHICH ne
took for Him and His truth.
The trouble is that the gospel gun
is trained too high. Screw up the butt,
lower the muzzle and let her go Gal
lagher.
The unwritten law is abnormally de-
veloped in me. If I had been on the
Thaw jury 1 would have said: Harry,
skidoo with your wife and go home"
When young buck comes around
and asks you to marry him to reform
him, you inform him that you are not
running a Kelley institute.
I would rather be an old maid than
to be yoked up to a characterless, pro-
fame, whisky soaked old jug handle
of a husband.
If you are decent, you will admit
the man who breaches Gods truth at
you, although he shoots you full of
holes while he is at it.
Sit there. you old skeptic, and stiff
fen your old neck, conscious in your
dignity of learning. The time will
come when God will make you turn
pale.
Children learn more deyilment on the
streets between and 10 o'clock at
night than all the preachers, evan
gelists, public school and Sunday school
teachers on earth can eradicate.
Don't put your nonsensicai diverg-
ence of opinion against God, nor lift
up your fool little Judgment in def
ance of Gods plan, or He will grind
want to preach so that the fellow
you into powder.
who works with a pick and shovel all
day can listen to me without getting
warts on his brain and having brain
fever.
II you want to know where w. A.