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 awfull Quite a row of figures, enough to stagger youl Millions of ticksl "I can never do it," said the poor pendulum. But the cloclanaster encouraged it. "You can do one tick at a timei" 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. - Dwight Lyman Moody