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==Preaching style==
==Preaching style==
[[Image:Billysundaypose.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Billysundaypose.jpg|right]]
Sunday was unabashedly uneducated and spoke in the plain speech of ordinary people, a marked contrast to the dignified style of other [[minister]]s. This was unusual, even shocking at the time. [[School]]s trained students in [[elocution]] and [[rhetoric]]. Ministers and public speakers were expected to use formal, educated [[English]]. A 1920 book for English teachers bracketed Sunday with a humorist famous for introducing [[slang]] into written English:
Sunday was unabashedly uneducated and spoke in the plain speech of ordinary people, a marked contrast to the dignified style of other [[minister]]s. This was unusual, even shocking at the time. [[School]]s trained students in elocution and [[rhetoric]]. Ministers and public speakers were expected to use formal, educated [[English]]. A 1920 book for English teachers bracketed Sunday with a humorist famous for introducing [[slang]] into written English:
:...all of us enjoy baseball slang, and [[George Ade]] and his rival in slang, Billy Sunday, are popular because they use these picturesque shortcuts that in many instances are destined to become the main paths of verbal expression.<ref>Hall-Quest, Albert Law (1920) ''The Textbook: How to Use and Judge it'', Macmillan, [http://books.google.com/books?id=a3bfVRnNovwC&pg=PA159&dq=%22billy+sunday%22+%22george+ade%22 p. 22]</ref>
:...all of us enjoy baseball slang, and George Ade and his rival in slang, Billy Sunday, are popular because they use these picturesque shortcuts that in many instances are destined to become the main paths of verbal expression.<ref>Hall-Quest, Albert Law (1920) ''The Textbook: How to Use and Judge it'', Macmillan, [http://books.google.com/books?id=a3bfVRnNovwC&pg=PA159&dq=%22billy+sunday%22+%22george+ade%22 p. 22]</ref>
A 1907 profile tells of him retelling [[New Testament]] stories in his own style:
A 1907 profile tells of him retelling [[New Testament]] stories in his own style: