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If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

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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
Long
Good
Would
World
Preaching
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