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Anticipating the end of the war, the advent of Prohibition, and the inevitable grain surplus, Billy Sunday took a more cheerful approach.
“The problem of what to do with the farm surplus will be solved in a jiffy,” Sunday said.
“The children of drunkards will consume this surplus in the form of flap-jacks for breakfast.”
I thought this was funny, not because of the actual statement but because it is always ‘for the children’.
This statement suggests that the children of drinkers don’t get breakfast now and even those who don’t will somehow be provided breakfast.
Page: 2 It is amazing how Christians can confuse social change with Gospel Truth. We want to use laws, protests, and even intimidation to make external changes on a world that needs a change of heart.
No one marked the day (start of Prohibition) as fervently as evangelist Billy Sunday, who conducted a revival meeting in Norfolk, Virginia. Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday’s enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. “The reign of tears is over,” Sunday proclaimed. “The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.”
