The photograph facing this page is an extraordinary image. Billy Sunday is poised to deliver a dramatic blow to the chin of Satan. Sunday used this pose and other active postures regularly in his promotional materials and sermons to illustrate the spiritual combat all individuals fight against sin. Rare among early prints, this photograph is date stamped. Taken as a publicity photograph in March 1918 by the Chicago Daily News, this image of Sunday would have been displayed in the newspaper as a cutout figure without any background during his Chicago revival. For our purposes, however, the backdrop remains as salient as his figure, for he is standing in.
