two o'clock in the morning
It is as it were but a servant of thine , and in good or in evil report , will follow in its train . But , if my sufferings , and the sneers of men , have no influence over thee , think , oh , my dear boy ! think on death , the judgment , eternity ! '' Will it be believed , that , after this appeal , the remorse which he suffered , and the resolutions of reformation which he made , a single week saw the minister of Mosskirk reel into his manse , assisted by the pastor of the Methodist Chapel , at two o'clock in the morning ? Such was the distressing reality ; and the next morning , without speaking to his son , but giving , amid heart-broken sobs and sighs , his blessing to his daughter-in-law and her children , old David Riddell removed from his son 's roof : nor could all his entreaties induce him to return . Let me hasten to conclude . The conduct of William became presently so notoriously shameful , that it could no longer be overlooked by his parishioners , and he was more than once called upon by some of them with remonstrances , which increased gradually in severity .