BILLY SUNDAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1919, Page 6

BILLY SUNDAY

LECTURE BY MR. J. BISSE'IT. The mission at Trinity Presbyterian Church wa ft continued last e\owing, when Mr. John BU.-ett’, the evangelist, delivered an address on “Biily Sunday,” taking for his text ,St. John i, 6, “Tiber© was a man seat from Gold, whose mane was John.” The speaker said Mr Sunday was not a. religious clown who played upon people’s- feelings, but a. prophet raised of -God, who was going through the United Slates -of America calling upon all to repent. Born in 1862, Billy Sunday - a few months later suffered the loss of his father, who died on active service in the Civil War. The widow being penniless, Billy and his brother were scut to ’-am orphanage. After nine years of training at (arm -work, he emerged with a splendid physique, and became a. ■ professional baseball player, the idol of Ids team. Coming under conviction of sin while at an open-air service, he took up--active Christian work, and became successively -an assistant -secretary of the Young Men's Christian As«Ociat;un and adsance agent for Dr. Chapman’s missions. He later accepted a call to conduct a. ten days’ miadon, which proved to be the beginning of the remarkable secies in which he has since been engaged. The Tabernacle in which Mr Sunday conducts his services in New York is seven miles from the centre of the city, andhholed e 20,000 people, but, in spite of its great capacity, thousands are frequently unable to gain admission to it. Speaking from personal knowledge, Mr Bissett „ said Mr Sunday was an ordained minister, holding the degree of D.D. in an American university. In social reform Mr. Sunday was an. unrelenting enemy of the liquor trade, and to him was largely due the -success of Prohibition in Kansas and other States. Ho had been called a money-grubber, but that was disproved ’by his large gilts to \iahou s worthy objects. On© thunjksgiving offering taken up at a final m-qeting of one of Iris missions amounted to £26,000, and'this was given by him in equal parts to the Y.M.C.A. and the Red Cross Association. During the evening Miss Bissett sang with much effect the sacred solo, “God is Just the Same To-day”; and also Billy Sunday’s famous chorus, “Brighten the Corner.” The mission will be continued this evening.

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