Billy Sunday Research Paper

Billy Sunday once said “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” This wasn't Billy Sunday's mindset his whole life, he wasn’t even a christian until his older adult life. Billy Sunday is an extraordinary muckraker and christian evangelists, even best know as one of the best evangelists of all time. Before Billy Sunday turned into an evangelist he was an even greater baseball player. It may not seem like Billy Sunday did much to greater the world but he actually he did, he helped many people convert to christianity, he helped argue against alcohol, which led to the prohibition, he helped young catholic men, and set a single season record of stolen bases in Major League Baseball. Billy’s father unfortunately
Billy used to drink alcohol but once he converted to christianity it all changed for him which made him be against alcohol. Billy Sunday said this “I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic. I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.” Billy Sunday was a big part in the creation the 18th Amendment, he supported the making and transportation of alcohol illegal. One of the best things that Billy said was this “Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell” (Billy Sunday). After the 18th Amendment was passed in 1919, he let up on all the prohibition talk until the public turned against the prohibition. Even after the repeal of the 18th Amendment, Sunday didn’t give up on the prohibition and even wanted to reintroduce the 18th Amendment but failed. The country of England got word of Sundays great speeches about the prohibition and England even wanted Billy to come to England and give speeches. England wanted him to talk to the citizens of the country because they wanted to do the same things as the United States did with the
Billy Sunday sermons gained attention from very famous people, these famous people included Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both of these men even invited Sunday to many different types of events. Billy Sunday thought that the only good thing in life was to strive to be exactly like a saint. According to Billy Sunday Biography “throughout his evangelistic career, Sunday preached about 20,000 sermons.” That is a lot of sermons, spoken to a lot of different people, and in a lot of different places around the United States. In 15 of Sundays biggest sermons it was recorded that he made 167,036 people convert to the christian religion. They were as follows “Pittsburgh, 26,601: Steubenville, 7888: Columbia, 18137: Newcastle 6683: Youngstown, 5915: South Bend, 5398” and the other eight cities had over 5,000 conversions each (Billy Sunday Biography). Billy Sunday spent most of his life going around the country speaking to anyone that would come to his sermons. During his career he said many remarkable quotes about how we as humans have to be a better catholic, and do everything in our power to resist the devil. Billy’s said some of the greatest quotes about religion, for example “Going to church doesn’t make you a christian any more than