The Chapel Clock

One Sabbath morning, the Rev. Richard Watson, the eminent Conference Minister, was preaching in Wakefield, and he had not proceeded far in his discourse, when he observed an individual in a pew just before him rise from his seat, and turn round to look at the clock in front of the gallery, as if the service were a weariness to him. This unseemly act called forth the following rebuke:— "A remarkable change," said the speaker, "has taken place among the people of this country in regard to the public service of religion. Our forefathers put their clocks on the outside of their places of worship, that they might not be too late in their attendance. We have transferred them to the inside of the house of God, lest we should stay too long in the service. A sad and an ominous change!"