BILLY SUNDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1917, Page 9

BILLY SUNDAY.

SERMONS IX SLAM;.' I hose an; a. few ot tin l jewels of speech with which -Billy" Sunday gavnishetl iiLs Now York sermons lately: "Xew York is going to lie.ll ho last thut it's beat-inn the speed limit." •'When you find more church members at a leg show than at church, a revival is needed." "They say a revival of religion is not lasting in its effect; neither is a bath, but it does you good." "One reason why the world does not join the church is that the church lias joined the world." "The devil hates a revival, huti he's stuck on the. attitude some people take towards this one." "When the consensus of scholarship says one thing and the. Word of Hod says another, tho consensus can go plumb to Ml." ■ "I'll fighb the liquor gang until hell freezes over, then get skates and tackle 'em on the ice." "If you don't settle with Christ before the undertaker pumps you full of embalming fluid, you're out." "I'm for suffrage. You can't run the world just because you have birdtail whiskers and wear pants." "When it comes to the question of divorce, I'm a Roman Catholic." "The United States pays 800,000.000 'Hollars a year for its amusement. Charlio (Chaplin gets 000,000 dollars a' year salary. Yet you yell "Graft!" if you have to pay a little for your preaching" "You can't gold brick a sharp-eyed suitor these days, girls, any more than you can put pyjamas on a Mllygoat." "Mothers, if you don't know when your sixteen-year-old daughters hit the hay, you're inviting shame and disgrace." I "If you kissed some of the,so fuzzyhaired sissies you see in Itfew York, : yoM'd die of ■painter's colic." | "If you couldn't scrape up-more loyalty to your country than you do for your church,, Germany would lick ua to' a frazzle in a jiffy." "If some of you women took off the hair that don't belong to you you'd look like a humming bird in a rainstorm." "Some people can, talk more religion in ten minutes than they live in ten years." "Jesus Christ was a great disturber. Wherever Paul went he had cither a revival or a Tiot." "You wilt neve* save New York from'j intemperance, if you run a booze joint in your home and keep beer and 'wine in your icebox." "I'll tell you the influence that docs more than any other to make red light districts and to send girls to lives of shame, ft is the dance, and I'll skin that from hell to breakfast before 1 get through." "There are' a lot of homes where the big need is for a hickory switch hanging on the wall and under it the motto, 'I Need Tljca Every Hour.'"