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Sunday's reply to such criticisms was "They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good."<ref name=montgomery/>

Sunday's reply to such criticisms was "They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good."<ref name=montgomery/>

Sunday fascinated the liberal intelligentsia of the time, who often made him a target of their mockery. [[Sinclair Lewis]]' novel [[Babbitt]] includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America.... As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers," whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Later, Lewis was to write [[Elmer Gantry]], a novel about an evangelical preacher with resemblances to Sunday. C. E. S. Wood in ''Heavenly Discourse'' depicts Billy Sunday as going to Heaven, addressing St. Michael and God as "Hello, Mike. Howdy, Pardner," and offering to conduct a revival there: "I can pack heaven so tight the fleas will squeal, and all I want is the gate-receipts for the last performance." [[Carl Sandburg]]'s poem, "To A Contemporary Bunkshooter," attacked Sunday using demotic speech similar to Sunday's own.<ref>Sandburg, Carl (1916), ''Chicago Poems,'' [http://www.bartleby.com/165/54.html To A Contemporary Bunkshooter], online text at Bartleby.com</ref>

Sunday fascinated the liberal intelligentsia of the time, who often made him a target of their mockery. [[Sinclair Lewis]]' novel [[Babbitt]] includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America.... As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers," whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Later, Lewis was to write [[Elmer Gantry]], a novel about an evangelical preacher with resemblances to Sunday. (Sunday in turn referred to Lewis as "Satan's cohort."<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-elmer-gantry/intro.html Elmer Gantry study guide], bookrags.com.</ref>

 

C. E. S. Wood in ''Heavenly Discourse'' depicts Billy Sunday as going to Heaven, addressing St. Michael and God as "Hello, Mike. Howdy, Pardner," and offering to conduct a revival there: "I can pack heaven so tight the fleas will squeal, and all I want is the gate-receipts for the last performance." [[Carl Sandburg]]'s poem, "To A Contemporary Bunkshooter," attacked Sunday using demotic speech similar to Sunday's own.<ref>Sandburg, Carl (1916), ''Chicago Poems,'' [http://www.bartleby.com/165/54.html To A Contemporary Bunkshooter], online text at Bartleby.com</ref>

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