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Title: |
Billy Sunday |
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The International: A Review of Two Worlds. |
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Volume IX, Number 10. |
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October 1915. |
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International Monthly, Inc. |
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New York. |
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Pages 316-317. |
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15 Cents. |
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Comments by Aleister Crowley: |
I took a week off in March to go to Philadelphia, where the great Billy Sunday was conducting a revival. The immense notoriety of the man, and the incompatibility of the accounts which my queries elicited, determined me, like the man in the gospel, to hear and see for myself. I ran the fox to earth in a vast wooden tabernacle; I forget what won by a narrow margin on points; and when he came to New York where they had built a barn bigger than the Albert Hall for the purpose, he could not even get an audience. Beelzebub had the best of every round. Shrewd to the last, he retired from the ring and left Lucifer with the laurels. He had had a great time and had made his pile. I suppose, at this hour, he is sitting under his own vine and fig tree, meditating with cynical enjoyment the Shakespearean aphorism, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" and on Sundays that sublime saying of the Saviour — who had saved him if he had never saved anyone else — "Ye are of more value than many sparrows." — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 765. |
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