Category: Billy’s handwritten notes

A churchless community?

Here’s what Billy Sunday personally wrote in a sermon note about a churchless community.

“A churchless community is a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious belief. It is a community on the rapid down grade. Church work and attendance means a cultivation of the habit of feeling the responsibility for others.” – not dated but likely 1934. Grace College. Morgan Library.

U.S. Grant’s advice to young people?

The following is attributed to U.S. Grant and Billy Sunday wrote this into sermon notes labeled “Science.” No date. Morgan Library, Grace College.

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties.”