midnight
Even with my immature mind I can detect that this clever work is but an airy castle , soon to fall . What infidel book has ever gained or kept a lasting hold upon the popular heart ? Let the darkness swallow up the mountain there . If we go where it is at midnight , we shall find it intact , and just as firm as when the sun is shining upon it . The searching light of every day , from year to year and age to age , will find it there just the same . The long night of moral darkness which culminated in the fifteenth century , though it hid the Bible , did not destroy it . Luther at last found and brought it out into the broad light of general study and criticism .