Billy sunday biography diversion
Why are we so confident that Billy Sunday is the Lord's own man, when so many learned critics have declared the contrary?
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The Baseball Player's Conversion
One Sunday afternoon Billy was strolling about in the south end of the business district of Chicago, with half a dozen baseball friends.
The New York Giants were in the city at the time, and several of them were in the party.
At the corner of State and Van Buren streets was an empty lot, which is now occupied by the Siegel & Cooper Department Store. Here a company of men and women workers from the Pacific Garden Mission were holding an outdoor meeting.
Sunday and his friends stopped to listen.
Sunday captivated audiences with his sensational and impassioned performances, in which he used pronounced gestures and, at times, a rough.The meeting soon took hold of their attention, and they sat down on the curb and heard the service through. Sunday confesses that the singing of the old gospel songs—the same his mother had sung in the little log cabin home back in Iowa—caught at his heart strings and set them vibrating in sympathy with memories of childhood days.
A new spirit welled up within him, and created dissatisfaction with the life he was living.
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