midnight
One came to me years ago . It was late at night , and I was just off to bed , when suddenly it came -- the remembrance of a friend far off ; the insistent remembrance ; the certainty that he needed me , and that I must hasten to help . By all the laws of common sense I should have shrugged my shoulders and gone to sleep ; but what are we , to judge by our own poor knowledge the great unknown forces of God ? I went out there and then , caught a midnight train , and was at his house by seven in the morning . His wife met me on the stair and said , ` How did you know ? ' ... He lay dying in his bed , and all that night he had been calling for me . There was something I could do for him , better than any one else .