Title & author
Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Christian Work
Also cited as Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work
By D. L. Moody (Dwight Lyman Moody, 1837–1899)
Publication
Originally published by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York / Chicago / Toronto, with a copyright notice of 1881. Moody dated the preface from Northfield, Massachusetts, May 1st, 1881. Public domain in the United States.
Description
Moody’s plain, story-driven addresses on the Holy Spirit: the source of power, the Spirit in the believer and upon the worker, witnessing in power, the Spirit’s operation in love, hope and liberty, and the sins that grieve or quench that power. Scripture references in this web edition link to the New King James Version on UECF.NET.
This edition
- Language: English
- Category: Christian Life · Devotion · Christian Work (Teaching & Devotion)
- Chapters: 5 plus preface
- Printed scan: about 138 pages (Internet Archive 1881 copy)
- UECF.NET Web Book edition: 2026
Sources
Printed scan (1881): https://archive.org/details/secretpowerorsec00moodiala (identifier secretpowerorsec00moodiala). Copyright evidence recorded on the item: no visible notice of copyright beyond the 1881 statement; status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT.
Reading text: complete public-domain transcription, Project Gutenberg eBook #33341, produced by Keith G. Richardson. Gutenberg license boilerplate and the publisher’s end-matter advertisements are not part of Moody’s book and are omitted here.
Audiobook named in this project: https://archive.org/details/SecretPowerOrTheSecretOfSuccessInChristianLifeAndChristianWorkBy — Secret Power or The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Christian Work read by Peter-John Parisis, released under a public-domain license. Five chapter recordings match this web book’s chapter titles.
PDF: 1881 Internet Archive PDF (legally appropriate public-domain scan).
A later Whitaker House / Billy Graham Library reprint of this title is under modern copyright and was not used.
Copyright
The 1881 text is in the public domain. This UECF.NET HTML edition adds only site navigation, Scripture links to the NKJV reader, and metadata. No login is required. Reading position and bookmarks stay in this browser’s localStorage only.