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William T. Ellis wrote in 1914,<ref>Ellis, William T, ''Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message with His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ," John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1914</ref> "Out in the Puget Sound country, where the sawdust aisles and the rough tabernacle made an especial appeal to the woodsmen, the phrase 'hitting the sawdust trail' came into use in Mr. Sunday's meetings." Ellis calls it a "luminous" substitute for "the older stereotyped phrases: 'going forward,' 'seeking the altar.'" and contrasts Sunday's approach with "the more conventional method, used by older evangelists, [of asking for] a show of hands."
William T. Ellis wrote in 1914,<ref>Ellis, William T, ''Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message with His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ," John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1914</ref> "Out in the Puget Sound country, where the sawdust aisles and the rough tabernacle made an especial appeal to the woodsmen, the phrase 'hitting the sawdust trail' came into use in Mr. Sunday's meetings." Ellis calls it a "luminous" substitute for "the older stereotyped phrases: 'going forward,' 'seeking the altar.'" and contrasts Sunday's approach with "the more conventional method, used by older evangelists, [of asking for] a show of hands."
==Beliefs==
==Beliefs==
He fiercely opposed alcohol:
He fiercely opposed alcohol:
:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>
:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>
He believed in a literal hell, saying "If you ever had any doubt about a literal Hell, a fiery Hell, where the wicked must remain forever, it would all vanish as I see Jesus Christ in Gethsemane, agonizing because men would not accept Him and were going to Hell."<ref>[http://www.biblebelievers.com/billy_sunday/sun16.html Gethsemane]</ref>.
He considered evolution to be "bunk, junk, and poppycock,"<ref>Hartt, Rolin Lynde (1923), "Deep Conflict Divides Protestantism," ''The New York Times'' December 16, 1923, p. XX5</ref> and called those who believed it "bull-necked, beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanut-brained, weasel-eyed, four-flushers, false alarms and excess baggage."<ref name=montgomery>[http://www.montgomerycollege.org/Departments/hpolscrv/bsunday.html Hitting a Home Run for Jesus], Montgomery College website; statement made during 1915 visit to Omaha</ref>
He considered evolution to be "bunk, junk, and poppycock,"<ref>Hartt, Rolin Lynde (1923), "Deep Conflict Divides Protestantism," ''The New York Times'' December 16, 1923, p. XX5</ref> and called those who believed it "bull-necked, beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanut-brained, weasel-eyed, four-flushers, false alarms and excess baggage."<ref name=montgomery>[http://www.montgomerycollege.org/Departments/hpolscrv/bsunday.html Hitting a Home Run for Jesus], Montgomery College website; statement made during 1915 visit to Omaha</ref>