Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — BILLY SUNDAYISMS. [ARTICLE]

BILLY SUNDAYISMS.

“There are two crowds in every church—the ruts and the antiruts.” “Some people are scared to death that somebody may do something out of the ordinary that will keep a sinner out of hell.” “Today the church is being assaulted by isms and chisms and there isn't religion enough in them to float their dirty fallacies.” “The devil is a smart guy; he never has appendicitis or peritontis; he’s always Johnny-on-the-spot.” ‘.‘Jesus Chirst was a great disturber is His day. He disturbed the self-complacency of that pliable, plastic bunch of ecclesiastical crooks.” “The church is all right as Iqng as she’s in the world; she’s all wrong when the world is in her, and one of the troubles of the church today is that she’s joined the world.” “We need a panic in religion.” “The churches are full of sourfaced religious crabapples that are trying to hand God a lemon.” “You cad’t work a shell game on God all your life.” “Usually the fellow that sleeps the soundest in church is the widest awake in a leg show.”