Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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 about that pendulum. The servants called her Lady Pendulum. She had a pendulum put up in her room to remind her of the illustration, and when I went away from London she gave me a clock--I've got it in my house still. The Greater Mystery Dr. Andrew Bonar once said that, although it was a mystery to him how sin should have come into the world, it was still a greater mystery how God should have come here to bear the penalty of it Himself. Never Runs Dry I remember being in a city where I noticed that the people resorted to a favorite well in one of the parks. I said to a man one day: "Does the well never run dry?" The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped drinking, he smacked his lips, and said: "They have never been able to pump it dry yet. They tried it a few years ago. They put the fire-engines to work, and tried all they could to pump the well dry; but they found there was a river flowing right under the city." Thank God, the well of salvation can never run dry either! He Trusted his Father