eleven o'clock at
night
`` The venerable man looked smilingly at me ; and then asked me to look up my Bible . I did , and found that I had been speaking an unknown language to Almighty God for years , and I called it prayer . '' Father Letheby looked humbled . He said : `` True , Father , I fear ; and if you had to say the entire Office , commencing Matins at eleven o'clock at night ; or if you had to crush Vespers and Compline , under the light of a street lamp , into the ten minutes before twelve o'clock , you 'd see the absurdity of the whole thing more clearly . A strictly conscientious confrère of mine in England used always commence Prime about ten o'clock at night ; but then he always lighted a candle , for consistency , before he uttered _ Jam lucis orto sidere _ . It is a wonder we were never taught the very translation of the psalms in college . '' `` Well , we 're wandering .