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Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

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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Buttermilk
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