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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

Alas! hardly a single person is to be seen in His Sanctuary ! If it be splendour that attracts you, know that the Sacred Body of my adorable Master present in the Most Holy Sacrament, has in itself more light than all the bodies of the Blessed Saints together will ever have in the realms of glory, where they all will shine like suns; the brightness of His Divine Body, brighter than all these, reflects upon them immense greatness, and unutterable excellence.

Know also, that the Holy Soul of this Precious Body unites in Itself the wonder of Paradise, the love, the joy, and consolation of all the blessed inhabitants of heaven ; know, that the Word, the Living Image of the Father of Light, is there, the God of all Greatness before whom all other greatness is nothingness. Venite adoremus ; Come, then, and adore the infinite majesty of the Lord of all things, and remember these words that He addresses to us by the mouth of His servant Moses, Sanctuariutn nteum metuite. Let men tremble with holy fear when they enter the place where He is in all His greatness.

THIRD MOTIVE.

JESUS IS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT FOR EVER.

Ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus, usque ad consummationem sceculi. — Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. — (Matt, xxviii. 20.)

"Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world," are the words of our