A well-known officer who had just left the Guards expressed to Lord Radstock his conviction that, being worldly by nature, it would be quite impossible for him to confess Christ, as he would disgrace Him by falling away. Lord Radstock replied by taking out his pencil case, and, holding it upright on the table, he asked the officer why it did not fall. “Because you hold it,” was the answer. “Then no inherent power in the pencil, but a power outside, is that which keeps it. God, seeing the utter ruin of man, did not tell him to stand upright, but brought in an external power, Himself. And the question of falling depends not upon the power of man, but on the Almighty, who ‘is able to keep you from falling, and, to present you faultless before the presence of His glory.’” The message went home. The following year, as the train drew up to the platform at Stockholm, Lord Radstock was greeted by the officer with the words, “God has never let the pencil go for one minute.”