Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations
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.
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.
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.
Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody's Stories
INCIDENTS and ILLUSTRATIONS
MOODY'S STORIES
Lady Pendulum
The Greater Mystery
Never Runs Dry
He Trusted his Father
Peace Declared
Sawdust or Bread
"Baby's Feeding Himself!"
Should Not Be Postponed
Teaching Willie Faith
Act on Your Belief
"Forty Miles to Liberty"
The Most Important Thing
Taking the Wrong Boat
The Best Proof
Have Faith.
Chasing His Shadow
His Minister's Bible
Mocked by his Children
No Need to Read Them
Tolling the Bell
A Father's Neglect
Worth Ten Thousand Men
"With or Without Power"
Turning on the Tap
Keep Close!
On Both Knees
Something New
Bidding Christ Farewell
The Wrath of God Was on Him
The War was Ended
Nearer than he Thought
Its Strength was Underestimated
Seeing the Gospel
Illuminated Christians
Not Ashamed of his Lord
He Silenced the Devil
Warm the Wax!
Draw Nearer
The Panorama Looks Brighter
All Things Work for Good
It Takes Time
Something God Cannot Do
It Seemed Too Good to be True
The Scarlet Thread
The First "Don't Worry Club"
The Story Followed Him
The Fatal Sleep
That Love is Spontaneous
The Summing Up of His Life
Beautiful Motion but No Progress
Get It into Your Heart
How the Miners were Saved
Receiving and Never Giving
Dumb Christians
Like Siamese Twins
Not Troubled with Doubts
Honey-Dew
A Personal Matter
They Knew It
Pull for the Shore
Easy, and Yet Difficult
No Difference
Drawing a Comparison
A Legend about Doves
Look to Christ!
Paying Attention to the Preacher
Better Make Sure
Some Things Quite Plain
Your Own Picture There
"That's Me!"
Queer Ideas of Repentance
A Good Illustration
"Come! Come! Come!"
Don't Scold
A Long Time to Reap
"As a Little Child"
Following the Lamb
Two Pictures
A Brighter Picture
The Folly of Covetousness
What is Needed
Neglecting Church
Oratorical Preaching
To Which Class Do You Belong?
Sunday Work
There Must Be Roots
The Path of Obedience
Calling a Man a Liar
Bending His Will
How To Find the Thirsty
Making Parables
A Father's Mistake
A Rum-Seller's Son Blows His Brains Out
Mrs. Moody Teaching Her Child
Missed At Last!
Choose Now
The Mansion Made Ready
The Promise For All
Reaping As They Sowed
Small Beginnings
Saying and Doing
Climb Higher
The Greatest Miracle
Different Kinds of Murder
"It Is Not For You!"
Stolen Goods a Burden
Unlocked By Prayer
The Faithful Promiser
Throw Out the Ballast
A Mother's Love
Restitution
Willie and the Bears
Christ For All
Starting Right
Napoleon and the Conscript
Green Fields or Desert?
Religion In the Home
A Universal Failing
Words and Actions
The One-Eyed Doe
Lost Opportunities
Steer Clear
Looking for Revivals
Opportunity
The Usual Way
Getting On Splendidly
A Hundred Years Hence
A Free Gift
What Seed Are You Sowing?
Bound Hand and Foot
Unity
Get Inside!
Hunt For Something
"When Ye Think Not"
Home Piety
Constant Watching
The Wrong Physician
Seeking the Lost
He Got Time To Think
The Motherless Child
Converted the Regular Way
Crazy from Sin
Don't Swear!
The True Sheep Knows
The Father Knew Best
"Help Yourself!"
The Rich Husband
Settle It Now!
The True Source of Joy
The Meanest Kind of Murderers
Where your Treasure Is
Why his Life was Spared
The Sinner's Heart
Nothing Small
An Anecdote about Tennyson
On Satan's Ground
Two Bidding for the Soul
Tried and Proven
The Prairie Fire
Perfect Order
Is your Soul Insured?
Memory
Balaam's Ass
The Border Apple-Tree
Bad Company
"Hitch On" and "Cut Behind"
Known by Name
The Right Time for Action
Criticising the Sermon
A Reminiscence
Transplanting the Lily
Election
The Mysteries of the Bible
The Little Lone One
Doubting Castle
Faith
Confessing Christ at Home
How to Settle the Theater Question
What a Sister Can Do
How one Man Treated Doubts
Use or Lose
The Anchored Boat
Not Much up There
Touching the Spot
The Little Boy and the Big Book
The Invitation to a Saloon Opening
"Too Late!"
TOPICAL INDEX
PSALM 23.
ISAIAH 55: 1—7.
JOHN 3: 1—16.
JUST AS I AM.
JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL.
BEHOLD A STRANGER.
GLORY TO HIS NAME!
DEPTH OF MERCY!
I WAS A WAND'RING SHEEP.
WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!
O HAPPY DAY!
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