12 o'clock
Then she gave me her Bible , and marked out passages , and put a few different references in the fly-leaf . I took the watch and the Bible just because my mother gave them . I never intended to read the Bible . I went off to Mexico , and one day while on a long , weary march , I took out my watch , and it was 12 o'clock . I had been gone four months , but I remembered that my mother at that hour was praying for me . Something prompted me to ask the officer to relieve me for a little while , and I stepped behind a tree away out on those plains of Mexico , and cried to the God of my mother to save me . '' My friends , God saved him , and he went through the Mexican war , `` and now , '' he said , `` I have enlisted again to see if I can do any good for my Master 's cause . ''