Excerpt from The Vision of Joy: Or When Billy Sunday Came to Town; A Sequel to the Victory of Allan Rutledge The anchor was raised and the liner steamed majestically out to sea, its four funnels pouring out clouds of smoke, and leaving in its wake a whirling path of foaming waters, which the giant screws of the propellers had churned to madness. In a few hours the last vestige of shore line had disappeared, and the great ship was swiftly plowing the billowy ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.