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Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

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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
Made
Churches
Bunch
Members
Church
Half
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