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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

but even by His own ; yet, after all, we believe it in such a way, that it would seem as though we believed it not..

One of the fatal effects of sin is to shut the eyes of the sinner's soul to the brightest lights of our holy religion; to throw it into an infinitely deplorable sleep, and to render it insensible to the most touching attractions of holy love. For is it not true that we must be in a strange lethargy, to be so little moved by the real presence of the Great and Eternal God in the Divine Eucharist? Truly, it is inconceivable !

O God of love, how strangely astonished is a soul when, being guided by divine light, she discovers so penetrating a truth in these heavenly rays ! The mind is overcome, beholding in this light a mystery surpassing all thought ; it loses itself in an abyss of admiration; its life is now nothing but a life of astonishment; and reflecting on the hardened, frozen hearts of men, she would be ever crying out to them : Oh, blindness ! Were that soul asked what her thoughts are on such an adorable truth, she would be unable to utter anything but these words : Wonder, wonder, wonder ! For she knows that though a creature should speak the language of men and angels, she would not be able to express the goodness of the God of Mercy in choosing to dwell amongst us in the Most Holy Sacrament. It is this which so often draws deep sighs from her heart, as she thinks of the darkness in which men