Excerpt from The Gospel Song Sheaf: For Sunday Schools and Young People's Meetings Comprising Primary Songs, Intermediate Songs, Gospel and Special Songs, and Old Hyms and Tunes

Illustrate with clock and Bible, teaching one or two stanzas every week, or twice a month. Until the entire clock is understood and the comparison plain to all the children The right arm of each child swings continuously as a pendulum, except in chorus. The left hand points to shelf. Face, heart, Bible. Brain, hands, and car (in which conscience rings its warning), as these are mentioned in the song, the leader meanwhile calling attention to the corresponding part of clock. Half of the department may sing Tick, ' says the clock, and the other half, facing about. Should respond. What, ' said I; all joining in the conclusion of chorus and using both hands to indicate the part of their persons referred to. When the song is well learned. The alto may be added by teachers or children. As mainspring. Wheels and hands are introduced in the song. They should be shown and their relation explained also the regulator, or guide, representing God's word which directs our motives aright. The clock lets its maker put the mainspring inside; the spring lets the guide govern its motion; the wheels let the Spring move them the hands let the wheels keep them going. A clock without a spring is worthless; a spring without a regulator is not to be trusted. W'ithout God's love as our motive power and his word as our guide, we are no better than a clock case full of wheels. We are worse. For by nature we have Satan's mainspring. Selfishness. And go to please ourselves, not to help others. The only purpose for which a clock is made. Let God change the spring. Then study his guide, then the hands go right. When teaching the younger children, do not introduce many comparisons in one lesson.

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