Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,           From every low pursuit; and fill my soul           With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure;           Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contain'd the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day:        THE MORNING. { 5 } Rise, wash, and address                                { } Powerful Goodness! Contrive   Question. What good shall { 6 } day's business, and take the   I do this day? { } resolution of the day; prosecute                                { 7 } the present study, and                                { } breakfast.                                   8 }                                   9 } Work.                                  10 }                                  11 }        NOON. { 12 } Read, or overlook my                                { 1 } accounts, and dine.                                   2 }                                   3 } Work.                                   4 }                                   5 }        EVENING. { 6 } Put things in their places.                                { 7 } Supper. Music or diversion,   Question. What good have { 8 } or conversation. Examination   I done to-day? { 9 } of the day.                                { 10 }                                { 11 }                                { 12 } NIGHT. { 1 } Sleep. { 2 } { 3 } { 4 } I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferr'd my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were drawn with red ink, that made a durable stain, and on those lines I mark'd my faults with a black-lead pencil, which marks I could easily wipe out with a wet sponge. After a while I went thro' one course only in a year, and afterward only one in several years, till at length I omitted them entirely, being employ'd in voyages and business abroad, with a multiplicity of affairs that interfered; but I always carried my little book with me.