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William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 [1] – November 6, 1935) was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder. He played for eight seasons in the National League before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century. Born into poverty near Ames, Iowa, Sunday spent some years ...
t. e. Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both ...
The Archives of the Billy Graham Center contains a collection of Rodeheaver ephemera (Collection 130), and several collections of Billy Sunday material (Collections 29, 41, and 61). Bob Olson, "Homer Rodeheaver, Pioneer of Sacred Records," Tim's Phonographs and Old Records website "If Your Heart Keeps Right" 78 rpm recording by Homer Rodeheaver ...
Website. Official website. The Billy Sunday Home was the residence of William A (Billy) Sunday, Helen (Ma) Sunday, their four children, and the family's live-in housekeeper and nanny. Located in the Winona Lake Historic District in Kosciusko County, Indiana, it is a prime example of a bungalow built in the Arts and Crafts architectural style.
Billy Sunday had left professional baseball for religious work in 1891, and by 1896, he had begun his own evangelistic career. Billy, who was naturally shy and who had suffered a series of losses as a child, leaned on Nell for emotional support as well as for such mundane chores as paying his bills, making his travel arrangements, and generally putting his affairs in order.
The three were abducted, driven to another location, and shot at close range. The bodies were buried in an earthen dam. [1] The disappearance of the three men was initially investigated as a missing persons case. The civil-rights workers' burnt-out car was found parked near a swamp three days after their disappearance.
In 1935, Ironside preached the funeral of Billy Sunday at Moody Church. In 1930, Wheaton College presented Ironside with an honorary Doctorate of Letters degree, and in 1942 Bob Jones University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. [4] In 2011, Bob Jones University renamed a residence hall that formerly honored Bibb Graves after ...
Synopsis. Billy Sunday is assistant to photographer Charles Van Schaick, who along with Frederick Jackson Turner, a budding historian, travel to the small town of Balsam Point, on the US western frontier, for the summer. There each are haunted by ghosts of the past, their own and those of the local, massacred Native Americans.