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Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Billy Sunday

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Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
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Faith
Stove
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