"Get on the Water Wagon"
Sermon
By: William Ashley Sunday
Date: 1908
Source: Sunday, William Ashley. "Get on the Water Wagon." Reprinted in The Best of Billy Sunday: Seventeen Burning Sermons From the Most Spectacular Evangelist the World Has Ever Known. John R. Rice, ed. Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1965, 63–66.
About the Author: William Ashley Sunday (1862–1935) was born in Ames, Iowa. A professional baseball player, he left the sport after his religious conversion and became a well-known evangelist. In his charismatic sermons, Sunday condemned alcohol use and was a strong supporter of Prohibition. He died on November 6, 1935, just short of his seventy-third birthday.
Introduction
William Ashley Sunday's father died in the Civil War (1861–1865) when William was only a month old. The boy lived in the Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Glenwood, Iowa, and then...
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