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| Preface | 5 |
| Contents | 7 |
CHAPTER I
One of God's Tools |
| God's Man Sent in God's Time—Sunday's Converts—Religion and the Common People—A Great City Shaken by the Gospel—Popular Interest in Vital Religion—Sunday a Distinctively American Type | 15 |
CHAPTER II
Up from the Soil |
| Sunday's Sympathy with Every-day Folk—Early Life—The Soldiers' Orphanage—The Old Farm—Earning a Living—The School of Experience—First Baseball Ventures | 22 |
CHAPTER III
A Base-Ball "Star" |
| Fame as a Baseball Player—Eagerness to "Take a Chance"—Record Run on the Day Following his Conversion—The Parting of the Ways | 33 |
CHAPTER IV
A Curbstone Recruit |
| Mrs. Clark and the Pacific Garden Mission—Sunday's Own Story of his Conversion—Winning the Game of Life | 39 |
CHAPTER V
Playing the New Game |
| The Individuality of the Man—His Marriage—Mrs. Sunday's Influence—Work in the Y. M. C. A.—A Father Disowned—Redeeming a Son—The Gambler—A Living Testimony—Professional Evangelistic Work | 45 |
CHAPTER VI
A Shut Door—and an Open One |
| Sunday Thrown Upon His Own Resources by Dr. Chapman's Return to Philadelphia—Call to Garner, Iowa—"This is the Lord's Doings" | 57 |
CHAPTER VII
Campaigning for Christ |
| Splendid Organization of a Sunday Campaign—Church Co-operation—The Power of Christian Publicity—District Prayer Meetings—Sunday's Army of Workers—The Sunday Tabernacle—The Evangelist's Own Compensation—Personnel of the Sunday Party | 61 |
CHAPTER VIII
"Speech—Seasoned with Salt" |
| Vivid Language of the Common People—"Rubbing the Fur the Wrong Way"—"Delivering the Goods"—Shakings from the Sunday Salt-cellar | 69 |
CHAPTER IX
Battling with Booze |
| An Effective Foe of the Liquor Business—"Dry" Victories Following Sunday Campaigns—"De Brewer's Big Hosses"—The Famous "Booze" Sermon—Interest in Manhood—Does the Saloon Help Business?—The Parent of Crimes—The Economic Side—Tragedies Born of Drink—More Economics—The American Mongoose—The Saloon a Coward—God's Worst Enemy—What Will a Dollar Buy?—The Gin Mill—A Chance for Manhood—Personal Liberty—The Moderate Drinker—What Booze Does to the System | 80 |
CHAPTER X
"Give Attendance to Reading" |
| Sunday's Reverence for "Book Learning"—No Claim to Originality—Some Sources of His Sermons—God's Token of Love—The Sinking Ship—"What If It Had Been My Boy?"—A Dream of Heaven—The Battle with Death—"Christ or Nothing"—Calvary—The World for God—A Word Picture—The Faithful Pilot | 121 |
CHAPTER XI
Acrobatic Preaching |
| Platform Gymnastics—The Athlete in the Preacher—Sunday's Sense of Humor Stronger than His Sense of Pathos—His Voice and Manner—Personal Side of Sunday | 138 |
CHAPTER XII
"The Old-Time Religion" |
| Sunday's Power of Positive Conviction—His Ideas of Theology—The Need of Old-time Revival—The Gospel According to Sunday—Salvation a Personal Matter—"And He Arose and Followed Him"—At the Cross-roads—"He Died for Me" | 146 |
CHAPTER XIII
"Hitting the Sawdust Trail" |
| Origin of the Phrase, "The Sawdust Trail"—Impressive Scenes as Converts by the Hundred Stream Forward—Vital Religion—Mr. Sunday's Hand—All Sorts and Conditions of People | 158 |
CHAPTER XIV
The Service of Society |
| Social and Ethical Results of Sunday's Preaching—The Potent Force of the Gospel—Religion in Every-day Life—Testimony of Rev. Joseph H. Odell, D.D.—Testimony of Rev. Maitland Alexander, D.D.—The "Garage Bible Class"—Making Religion a Subject of Ordinary Conversation—Lasting Results—A Life Story | 167 |
CHAPTER XV
Giving the Devil His Due |
| Sunday's Sense of the Reality of the Devil—Excoriation of the Devil—"Devil" Passages from Sermons | 182 |
CHAPTER XVI
Critics and Criticism |
| Storm of Criticism a Tribute—Preaching "Christ Crucified"—Recognition from Secretary Bryan—Pilgrimage of Philadelphia Clergymen—Heaven's Messenger—Plain Speech from Sunday Himself | 188 |
CHAPTER XVII
A Clean Man on Social Sins |
| Clean-mindedness of the Man—A Plain Talk to Men—Christian Character—Common Sense—No Excuse for Swearing—Family Skeletons—Nursing Bad Habits—The Leprosy of Sin—"But the Lord Looketh on the Heart"—The Joy of Religion—A Plain Talk to Women—Hospitality—Maternity Out of Fashion—The Girl Who Flirts—The Task of Womanhood | 202 |
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