Remember hearing Frank Sinatra sing about Chicago?
Here (in part) are the lyrics...
Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago I will show you around
I love it bet your bottom dollar you'll lose the blues in Chicago, Chicago The town that Billy's Sunday couldn't shut down http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/chicago.html
From what I read Billy Sunday was quite an outspoken preacher.
He came down hard on the whiskey peddlers.
Billy Sunday has been in paradise for a long time now.
I wonder how ole' Blue Eyes is doing?
I remember being in the military back in the 1960's and walking past all the drunks passed out on the streets late at night.
A terrible sight to see.
God blessed you Billy Sunday and for sure your preaching lead a lot of folks to the Lord.
A quite a few decades ago I cared for my infirmed grandmother in the weeks before she died.
Up until that time I never got to talk to her as an adult.
It was a special time for us both.
I quizzed her on her life and her faith, trying to assess whether she had made a decision of faith.
As a youth she lived in Chicago.
She related that as a teen, a Baptist friend invited her to go see Billy Sunday
She saw him a couple of times and responded to his sermons.
The people there were all kicked out of the projects, that the City was tearing down.
Last Dec. I was there for a visit, and the families testified of how their children were college graduates, instead of gangsters.
Most are married, a rarity in W.E.