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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

nothing could be seen. In our days, not only does the God of infinite greatness dwell in a Temple by the effects of His grace, but He dwells bodily in as many places as there are Churches and Altars throughout the world.

Under the old Law, it was not only not permitted to touch the Ark, but even to look at it too closely. The Bethsamites were punished for having looked on it with too much curiosity. Now, we may, and we are even commanded, not merely to touch, but to eat Him of whom the Ark was only the shadow. We may truly say that we have no faith ; that having eyes, we see not, and that having ears, we hear not.

People make pilgrimages into foreign lands to honour God in the relics of His Saints, and it is well ; but at the same time, they will hardly take a hundred steps to go and pay their respects to the adorable Body of the God of Majesty !

We may say still more ; that the excess of God's love causes our excessive coldness and insensibility, by our abuse of His grace. Is it possible that, if God had not loved us so much, we should love Him more ? Learn this terrible truth from what we, see. Is it not true that, if the loving Jesus had established the presence of His Divine Body in only one spot on earth, all nations would have hastened to come from every part of the world to offer Him, in the Adorable Sacrament, their adoration and prayers? On arriving at the place, they