six o'clock precisely
Oh no . Let him skip a few leaves . Better sacrifice three or four sheets of sermon-paper than sacrifice the interest of your hearers . But it is a silly thing for a man in a prayer-meeting or pulpit to stop merely because a certain number of minutes have expired while the interest is deepening -- absurd as a hunter on the track of a roebuck , and within two minutes of bringing down its antlers , stopping because his wife said that at six o'clock precisely he must be home to supper . Keep on hunting till your ammunition gives out . Still , we must all admit that the danger is on the side of prolixity . The most interesting prayers we ever hear are by new converts , who say everything they have to say and break down in one minute .