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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

dear Master, that it is He who works all good in us ; that it is through His mercy that we are what we are. For this reason He has established Sacraments in His Church as so many channels of grace. In the Sacrament of the Eucharist is found, not grace only, but the Author of all gifts who, through incomparable charity, wishing to assist us in all our wants, does in It all things for us.

He is our Divine and Mighty King, who defends us against those enemies who attack us incessantly with so much fury, so much strength and cunning, in the hope of causing our eternal ruin. Parasti in conspectu meo mensam adversus omnes qui tribulant me.

It is There that the soul must go for support in her weakness, and find strength to prevent her falling in her combats. If the Lord is with the soul, she has nothing to fear; though she should walk in the Shadow of Death she will be in a Happy Path, sustained by the Right Hand of her Master and God. Jesus in the Divine Eucharist fulfils the office of a kind Father, carefully watching over all our necessities in a way we may well adore, but cannot explain: — Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit. Nothing can be wanting to the soul that has entirely given herself up to Divine Providence; if we do not feel sufficient help, it is because we lean too much on creatures.

Happy, a thousand times happy, is the soul that has put all her confidence in the Lord of all things; she will find in Him, not only the love of a kind