about three o'clock
This taxed my strength , so much so that I was always tired . And during these months it seemed I was called on to hold twice as many burials and weddings as common . Then one Sunday in early February , as I was conducting an evening service at Shiloh , a strange and beautiful thing occurred . It was about three o'clock . I turned the pages of the pulpit Bible to the thirty-ninth chapter of the Book of Psalms . I was planning to take my text from the sixth verse , which says , `` Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches , and knoweth not who shall gather them . '' It was my intent to preach on the theme that one is foolish to lay up worldly goods .