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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

are not sufficient means to help the adorable Jesus in the extreme poverty to which He has reduced Himself, by His own Will and through His boundless Love ; yet the rich people of the world are served with silver and other precious things.

Again, the greater number of our poor people in the country have clean and neat linen ; it is only Thou, O my dear Lord and my God, who art reduced to such poverty. Ah ! my heart, what ought we to think of this ? If we were not so hardhearted, we should weep tears of blood, we should cry out incessantly against this behaviour of creatures towards their Creator.

I confess and declare, in the sight of heaven and earth, that my heart must be hardness itself, not to be consumed with love at the sight of this precious love of God. A good and noble heart that loved its Master could no longer exist, it would speedily die of love and sorrow at seeing so loving and so generous a God so little loved, in spite of all His favours.

Truly, truly, this mystery of Love is fearful, and what account shall we have to give of it on the day we are judged ? O rich ! O poor ! I have only one word to say to you. Ye rich ones, weep and howl in the midst of your riches, according to the words of Holy Scripture : be confounded with shame at the sight of a God so poor ! Ye poor, be consoled ; be full of holy joy at being like unto your Saviour ! Let every Christian admit that poverty must be good, because it is so tenderly loved by the God of Love.