tails with more ease and power
than a man without order and system can manage a dozen. It is not power
to do more work than other men, but power to do the same amount of work
in such an orderly and systematic way that it accomplishes a hundred
times as much as other men's work, which marks the difference between
the statesman who manages the affairs of a nation or the merchant prince
who handles millions of dollars, and the man of merely ordinary
administrative and business ability.

THE REWARD.

+The orderly man has his resources at his disposal at a moment's
notice.+--He can go directly to the thing he wants and be sure of
finding it in its place. When a business is thoroughly systematized it
is as easy to find one thing out of ten thousand as it is to find one
thing out of ten. Hence there is scarcely any limit to the expansion of
business of which the systematic man is capable. A business thus reduced
to system will almost run itself. Thus the heads of great concerns are
able to accept public office, or to spend a year in Europe, in absolute
confidence that the business will be well conducted in their absence,
and that they can take it up when they return just as they left it. For
they know that each man has his part of the work for which he is
responsible; each process has its precise method by which it is to be
performed; each account has its exact place where it is to be kept.
Order and system are the keys to business success. Orderliness keeps
things under our control, and the convenience and efficiency with which
things serve us is the direct and necessary consequence of having them
under control.

THE TEMPTATION.

+System takes more labor to begin with, but in the long run system is
the greatest labor-saving device in the world.+--It takes ten times as
long to hunt up a thing which we have left lying around the next time we
want it, as it does to put it where it belongs at first. Yet, well as we
know this fact, present and temporary ease seems of more consequence at
the time of action than future and permanent convenience. Until by
repeated exercise and painful discipline we make orderliness and system
habitual and almost instinctive, the temptation to make the quickest and
handiest disposition of things for which we have no immediate use will
continue to beset our minds and betray our wills.

THE VICE OF DEFECT.

+The careless man lets things run over him.+--They mock him, and make
fun of him; g