midnight
So it may prove that this Nineteenth Century aggregation of men united for the purpose of benefiting their fellowmen , is of tantamount influence on the human race . From acting as component parts in a body that exists as a moral protest against the wrongs of the world and the unrelenting hands of the usurpers of the right of the people , these forty men go forth as an army of crusaders . On the committee of forty there is not a man who has not argued his conscience into a state of appreciation of the worthiness of the action he is to perform . It is past midnight . Two months from this date , on October thirteenth , the fulfillment of the vows the men have taken , must be made . In the sixty days that are to intervene will any of these intrepid wills bend under the pressure of mental anxiety ? Will any of them prove a modern Judas ?