midnight
Now tell where you have been , and what you have seen and suffered ; for it is written on your face that you have seen many hard days . '' Then David told all about his wanderings and his shipwreck , and the mercy of God to him through his servant John Priestly . But when he tried to speak of the new revelation of the gospel that had come to him , he found his lips closed . The fire that had burned on them the night before , when he spoke under the midnight sky to the old fisherman and the fisherwives , was dead and cold , and he could not kindle it ; so he said to himself , `` It is not yet the hour . '' And he went out of the manse without telling one of all the glorious things he had resolved to tell . Neither was he troubled by the omission . He could wait God 's time .