Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-14
SAYINGS OF BILLY SUNDAY.
Hot Sparks From the Anvil of Famous
Evangelist.

Evangelist
IF salvation can be obtained other
than through the help of Jesus Christ
then the death of Jesus was in vain.
Men are saved not by their own
merit, but by belief in Jesus Christ,
the Son Of God.
Take. the blood Of Christ out of
the plan of salvation and it would be
worth no more than your body will be
worth after the blood is taken out
of it.
- Redemption was offered to all. Sal
vation is only for those who accept
the redemption of Christ.
- Jesus Christ purchased you with
his blood, and when you withhold
yourself from him you withhold that
which belongs to him. ,...
Il did not accept call to go to Ire
land because knew would have to
recast my vocabulary. I lost half of
it when became converted.
We have, no more right to meddle
into the Irish people than the northern
people had to meddle in the so-called
negro question in the south.
Some men remind me Of signs in
butcher shop, Dressed Beef" Dress
ed Pork" They are great beefy, porky
men, without the qualities of manhood
The United States never had
greater man or purer Christian than
Alexander Fl. Stephens, vice president
of the Confederacy.
"A man sometimes gives excuses
for not being Christian, but he can
never give a reason.
1t takes manhood to be n Christian
and that is why some men are not
Christian-they haven't got sufficient
manhood.
Your greatest happiness and use
fulness can be found as Christian.
A man who will ridicule another
who is trying to be Christian is so
low that his opinions are not worth
considering.
God does not call you to be saved
for yourself alone. He calls you to be
saved and then to help others to be
saved.
Christianity is the best life to live.
| know, for have tried both.
- Seventy-four per cent of the men,
bership of the Protestant churches in
this country is made up of women and
that fact is an insult to the manhood
of the nation.
You may not be a church member,
but it is your duty to be. You are
obligated not only not to injure others
but to help them. Do you realize that
your attitude toward Christianity may
be hurting some one else?
Father, it is just as much your duty
to pray for and with your children
as it is to feed and clothe them and
send them to school.
Il had rather have standing room
in heaven than to own the world, and
then so to hell when 1 am through.
- Even if you could show me that
there is no hell, / would still be a
Christian for the sake Of the happi-
ness it gives me here on earth
You don't "give" to the preacher
you pay him for his services, just as
you pay your doctor or your lawyer or
your merchant.
1t is human to stand with the
crowd it is divine to stand alone.
- Bob Ingcrsoll was nothing but "a
mouthful of sweetcned wind and Il
pleasant echo" He had q wonderful
intellect, but his life was a failure
from any standpoint.
No infidel ever slept in the White
House as president of the United
States, and never will.
The fear of hell is great deter
rent believe there are men in heav-
en- who feared they would go to hell il
| they did not reform.
If you do not decide to be a Chris
tian you thereby decide not to be
Christian. And that is terrible de-
cision.
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