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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

fervour, to offer Him our prayers and adoration, and the sacrifice of our hearts ; moaning, weeping and broken-hearted with loving contrition, at the little care we have hitherto taken to come and pay our respects to Him who is our All. It will be very difficult not to be more faithful to Him, if once our eyes are opened to His Divine Sight, and after awaking from our tepidity, we shall say with Jacob : Vere Dotninus est in loco isto, et ego nesciebam.

Alas ! have we ever realised it ?

SECOND MOTIVE.

JESUS IS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT IN ALL

HIS GREATNESS.

Sanctuarium meum metuite. — Reverence my

Sanctuary. — (Leviticus, xix. 30.)

It is true that the majesty of kings, princes and earthly sovereigns, the brilliancy [and pomp of courts, attract people and draw large crowds after them. At sight of this, I cannot help exclaiming: O children of men, how long will ye be slow of heart, seeking the vain delusions of the world that, in its inconstancy, are never to be really possessed, and so soon escape from your hands, whilst you are so careless of possessing Him who alone can give you happiness ? Behold the King of Kings, before whom a thousand worlds are but a speck; in whose presence the pomp of earthly kings vanishes like a shadow, and is simply nothing ; behold Him before whom the foundations of heaven tremble, and He left alone in our Churches!