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He favored sex instruction ("Prudery is no more a sign of virtue than a wig is of hair").
 
He favored sex instruction ("Prudery is no more a sign of virtue than a wig is of hair").
 
==Converts and financial success==
 
==Converts and financial success==
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He was financially successful, a point which his critics noted. It was his practice to keep the proceeds of the last day of his campaigns. He published his results measured both by numbers of converts and by dollars in thank offerings. Through 1916, he made over twenty appearances in cities ranging in size from small (Erie, Pennsylvania; Canton, Ohio) to large (Boston, Philadelphia, New York), and claimed a total of over 600,000 converts and $680,000 in donations<ref>"Billy Sunday Dies, Evangelist was 71," ''The New York Times,'' November 7, 1935, p. 1. Totals calculated from numbers in article.</ref> (equivalent to about $13 million today).<ref name=westegg>[http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ The Inflation Calculator]</ref>. In 1920 Dun and Bradstreet estimated his worth at $1.4 million ($16 million today).
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He was financially successful, a point which his critics noted. It was his practice to keep the proceeds of the last day of his campaigns. He published his results measured both by numbers of converts and by dollars in thank offerings. Through 1916, he made over twenty appearances in cities ranging in size from small (Erie, Pennsylvania; Canton, Ohio) to large (Boston, Philadelphia, New York), and claimed a total of over 600,000 converts and $680,000 in donations<ref name=nytobit>"Billy Sunday Dies, Evangelist was 71," ''The New York Times,'' November 7, 1935, p. 1. Totals calculated from numbers in article.</ref> (equivalent to about $13 million today).<ref name=westegg>[http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ The Inflation Calculator]</ref>. In 1920 Dun and Bradstreet estimated his worth at $1.4 million ($16 million today).
    
==Criticism==
 
==Criticism==
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