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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

are obliged to quit Him who should be our only joy ; and during our occupations, and conversation with creatures, even during the night, when we are wakeful, we should think of our loving Jesus, who dwells constantly in the Divine Eucharist, in order to attract our thoughts, so that we may lovingly regret our inability to be, both in body and mind, in that place where He dwells in Body, Soul and Divinity. Oh ! how ought we to exclaim with the Psalmist: Here is my rest for ever and ever: this is the place I have chosen, because my Saviour has chosen it. O my soul, let others do as they will, but I feel that this place must be our sweetest and constant retreat.

FIFTH MOTIVE.

JESUS IS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT IN ALL

COUNTRIES.

Nec est alia natio tarn grandis, auce habeat deos appro- pinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest cunctis obsecrationibus nostris.—Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.— (Deut. iv. 7.)

No; there is no nation so happy as the Christian people in the ease with which their God may be approached. In times past, under the ancient Law, there was only one temple for all the earth; there was only one Sanctuary, into which the High Priest alone, was permitted to enter; and even he was obliged, out of respect, to fill the sacred place with the smoke of incense, so that