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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

their sick, to place them before Him who so mercifully came to heal all our diseases. The doors of our Churches are open, and the Children of Zion weep because they are deserted, and hardly any one is seen there.

Lastly, it must be said that even the Blessed Virgin herself could not always have the access she desired to the most loving Son that ever was, for the Holy Gospel informs us she could not sometimes approach Him, whilst we worms of the earth have all possible liberty to draw near to Him, to speak to Him, and remain in His Divine Presence ; and yet we will not make a holy use of such a precious favour !

SIXTH MOTIVE.

JESUS IS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT FOR EVERY ONE.

Venite ad me, omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos. — Come to me, all you that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. — (Matt. xi. 28.)

Come unto Me, says the loving Jesus, all who are in trouble and are heavily burdened, and I will comfort you. These tender words, which the Loving Heart of the charitable Saviour of our souls has expressed, are addressed to every one. He is, in the Most Holy Sacrament, for the poor as well as for the rich. He gives Himself equally to the learned and ignorant, to the great and small, to monarchs and their subjects, to the lowest on earth as well as