HOW HE GOT TIME FOR STUDY.
It was not by sitting up late at night, but by rising early in the morning, that he found time for study. He well observed, "A late morning student is a lazy one, and will rarely make a true scholar; and he who sits up late at night not only burns his life's candle at both ends, but puts a red-hot poker to the middle." A minister one day acknowledged to the doctor that he was in the habit of remaining late in bed, and added that he had been protesting and praying against it for several years, but that it still lingered and seemed to be a most inveterate, if not incurable evil. The doctor addressed him: "My dear brother, you have entirely misapprehended the case. The remedy is simple, and of easy application. It has been a maxim with me for many years never to trouble the Almighty about a thing which I could do myself. Now, instead of lying in bed and praying on the subject of early rising, I get up at the appointed time, dress myself, and go at once to my study and my books. If you take my advice, you will act in future on the same maxim."—Dunn's Life of Adam Clarke.