Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spoke, in a last sermon, of prayer: "God always answers prayer-'Yes.' 'No.' 'Wait.'-but He always answers...
...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...
Evangelist Sunday made another prophecy, anent his stop in St. Louis. "We'll talk about the campaign we held here for millions of years." he said. With parables and epigrams he summarized the serious topic of his sermon, Eternal Life: "Man tries to whitewash himself when God wants to wash him white. . . . Don't let God hang a 'For Rent' sign in the mansion he's prepared...
...wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said she had killed her father with an axe and put his body in a trunk in the cellar...
Leaping and snarling like a small, vivacious cougar, Rev. William A. Sunday preached at the Coliseum, in St. Louis. It was the fifth week of the projected seven-week revival meeting; Billy Sunday had signed up about 4,000 converts and he wanted some more. He gave a "sermon" on "The Three Crosses" and talked about the opera Faust, in which Marguerite, a pregnant girl, dies of broken-heart. Said Billy Sunday...