How far business will interfere with my inner life remains to be seen.

O Lord! help me to keep my resolution, which is not to let the world enter my heart, but to keep it looking toward Thee! My heart has been in a constant prayerful state since I have been at home.

It is busy in its own sanctuary, its own temple, God.

O Lord! preserve it." One of the first noteworthy things revealed by the diary--which from this time on was kept with less regularity than before--is that Isaac not only maintained his abstemious habits after his return, but increased their rigor.

For a robust man, working hard for many hours out of every twenty-four, and deprived of all the pleasant relaxations, literary, conversational and musical, to which he had been accustoming himself for many months, the choice of such a diet as is described in the following sentences was certainly extraordinary: "August 30 .-- If the past nine months or more are any evidence, I find that I can live on very simple diet--grains, fruit, and nuts.