This song that I am bringing is called, “God’s Tomorrow,” but it is Mr. When he started to give the invitation, he hung on and said, “Harry, don’t let the people go without me having at least one from this meeting to go into the presence of God with.” He held out his hand as we sang an invitation song, and I knew it was no time to pull a crowd, so I put my hand in his hand and he must have thought somebody had taken his hand to make a decision for Christ, for he said, “Thank God I” We took him to a little anteroom and then to the hotel, and we thought that was his last, but God raised him up again and let him close, in my judgment, with a wonderful victory. He stood there preaching what we all thought was his last sermon (he had told me as well as his wife and family, “There is one way I want to die, and that is in the harness”), and his strength failed. Some time ago at Des Moines, Iowa, I thought it was the last call for Mr.
Sunday for the last seven years has been a friend,-more than a friend-he has been a father to me. I do not know what his children must feel today, but Mr. I came from Cardiff, Wales, to the United States, was converted in the Moody Bible Institute, traveled around the United States doing Christian work until the time came in the providence of God when He was kind enough to place it in the heart of Mr. I do not think there are words that could ever be couched into any phrase that would convey the thought or expression that is in my own heart. Clarke: I would like to pay a tribute to Mr. The service will be opened this afternoon by a musical number by Harry Clarke who has been recently his song-leader. Sunday, that we should have with us on the platform several who have been associated with him at different times for a number of years in his great campaigns.
It seems very fitting that on such an occasion as this when we are gathered to pay our last respects to our friend and brother, Mr. Sunday was connected at the time of his conversion. The front of the platform was literally banked with magnificent floral offerings and among these most noticeable was one from the Cubs, Chicago’s well-known baseball aggregation, formerly known as the “White Stockings,” with which Mr. Ironside, the Pastor of the church, presiding. On the platform were the brethren who were to participate in the service, Dr. A large number of ministers, Salvation Army officers and other Christian workers were in the choir loft. Sunday’s former associates in his great campaigns were present. Many exclaimed: “He led me to Christ” As the funeral service began there were some 3,500 people seated in the great auditorium of the Moody Memorial Church. Three thousand one hundred and fifty-seven persons filed past the casket of the great evangelist. Reprinted from The Moody Church News of December, 1935 In this way, I trust, the word will be fulfilled concerning him that was written of another so long ago: “He, being dead, yet speaketh.” Now, at the earnest solicitation of personal friends of “Billy” Sunday, the entire account is presented in pamphlet form, and is sent forth with the sincere hope that it may be blessed of God, not only to large numbers of the evangelist’s own converts but to many others who have heard of his great work. Owing to requests from all parts of the world for copies, this edition has long since been entirely exhausted, and still the requests come.
The full account was published in The Moody Church News, a large extra edition being printed at that time. Sunday proclaimed so fearlessly and energetically.įor myself, I counted it a real privilege and a sacred trust to be permitted to direct the service and preach on this memorable occasion. Moody, who, in an earlier generation, stood so valiantly for the same precious truth that Mr. Sunday requested that the funeral of her honored husband should be held in the Moody Memorial Church, our Executive Committee were pleased to comply, for all felt it was most becoming for him who had so often preached from our pulpit to be buried from the edifice reared to the memory of the great evangelist, Dwight L.