The Pendulum
There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock. It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done. It would be expected to tick night and day, so many times a minute, sixty times that every hour, and twenty-four times that every day and three hundred and sixty-five times that every year. It was awful! Quite a row of figures, enough to stagger you! Millions of ticks! “I can never do it,” said the poor pendulum. But the clockmaster encouraged it. “You can do one tick at a time?” he said. “Oh, yes,” the pendulum could do that. “Well,” he said, “that is all that will be required of you.” So the pendulum went to work, steadily ticking, one tick at a time, and it is ticking yet, quite cheerfully.
by Dwight Lyman Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock. It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done. It would be expected to tick night and day, so many times a minute, sixty times that every hour, and twenty-four times that every day and three hundred and sixty-five times that every year. It was awful! Quite a row of figures, enough to stagger you! Millions of ticks! “I can never do it,” said the poor pendulum. But the clockmaster encouraged it. “You can do one tick at a time?” he said. “Oh, yes,” the pendulum could do that. “Well,” he said, “that is all that will be required of you.” So the pendulum went to work, steadily ticking, one tick at a time, and it is ticking yet, quite cheerfully.
by Dwight Lyman Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He was a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
