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Title: Moody's Stories
Incidents and Illustrations

Author: Dwight Lyman Moody

Release Date: June 29, 2010 [EBook #33024]

Language: English

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Moody's Stories
INCIDENTS and ILLUSTRATIONS

[Illustration]

Copyrighted, 1884, by
F. H. Revel

Printed in United States of America

Moody's Stories

Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes
Incidents and Illustrations

By D. L. Moody

Authorized Collection

THE MOODY PRESS
153 Institute Place
CHICAGO

MOODY'S STORIES

Lady Pendulum

When Mr. Sankey and I were in London a lady who attended our meetings
was brought into the house in her carriage, being unable to walk. At
first she was very skeptical; but one day she said to her servant:

"Take me into the inquiry room."

After I had talked with her a good while about her soul she said:

"But you will go back to America, and it will be all over."

"Oh, no," said I, "it is going to last forever."

I couldn't make her believe it. I don't know how many times I talked
with her. At last I used the fable of the pendulum in the clock. The
pendulum figured up the thousands of times it would have to tick, and
got discouraged, and was going to give up. Then it thought, "It is
only a tick at a time," and went on. So it is in the Christian
life--only one step at a time. That helped this lady very much. She
began to see that if she could trust in God for a supply of grace for
only one day, she could go right on in the same way from day to day.
As soon as she saw this, she came out quite decided. But she never
could get done talking