midnight
Evening comes , and she has three times the desire for amusement and three times the need of it that her fashionable sister has . And where can she go ? To the theatre , perhaps , with some young man as thoughtless as herself , and more depraved ; then to the bar for a glass of wine , and another ; and then , with a head swimming and turning , who shall say where else she may be led ? Past midnight and no one to look after her , -- and one night ruins her utterly and for life , and she as yet only a child ! `` John Newton had a very wise saying : ` Here is a man trying to fill a bushel with chaff . Now if I fill it with wheat first , it is better than to fight him . ' This apothegm contains in it the whole of what I would say on the subject of amusements . ''