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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

insolence in the greater number of those who are in our Churches. Pride reigns in their minds, in their intentions, in their posture, in their dress ; pride so excessive, that it often leads these followers of This Humbled God, to dispute precedence in His Presence, to dispute their places, and the vain honours of this world, which is so deceitful and so miserably deceived. This seems inconceivable, but alas ! it is seen every day.

I say, therefore, that it will be difficult to find a perfect Christian, and thus it is that the God of Christians is humbled ; we hear and we see people who call themselves Christians, but who live and speak like infidels. These wretched white-washed Christians say : Why should I yield ? Why do you ask me to humble myself to a person who is my inferior ? O words, O thoughts, O designs that deserve to be held in execration by all the faithful ! O my soul, my resolution is made, — you must yield to every creature, you must humble yourself beneath all men, whoever they are. We must always think ourselves below every one else, look upon ourselves as the last in the world : after the humiliation of our Master in the Most Holy Sacrament, all our honour ought to be to bear every possible abjection. We must make humiliation this point of honour, and the contempt of others ought to be a subject for our glory. A soul that is a little enlightened on the humility of Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, is capable of practising all