ten
o'clock at night
Fish was cheap along Galilee , and this , with unbolted bread , gave them plenty of phosphorus for brain food . These early ministers were never invited out to late suppers , with chicken salad and doughnuts . Nobody ever embroidered slippers for the big foot of Simon Peter , the fisherman preacher . Tea parties , with hot waffles , at ten o'clock at night , make namby-pamby ministers ; but good hours and substantial diet , that furnish nitrates for the muscles , and phosphates for the brain , and carbonates for the whole frame , prepare a man for effective work . When the water is low , the mill-wheel goes slow ; but a full race , and how fast the grists are ground ! In a man the arteries are the mill-race and the brain the wheel , and the practical work of life is the grist ground . The reason our soldiers failed in some of the battles was because their stomachs had for several days been innocent of everything but `` hard tack . ''