Like Dwight Moody, Sunday did not so much preach precisely as he did evocatively, which in the end helped premillennial sentiments lodge themselves in the “old-time religion” of the sawdust trail. “No man can be true to his God without being true to his country,” he preached in the intoxicating days of mobilization in 1918.26 The confluence of Christianity and nationalism that Sunday channeled into his ministry remade his brand of premillennialism into one that Brethren thinkers a half century before would have found unrecognizable.
