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""""*8 THE CUR^ OF ARS.good man pass the church-door without enteringit toadore his Lord. He would leave his tools, his spade, hot?,and pickaxe, at the door, and remain for hours togethersitting or kneeling before the tabernacle. M. Vianney,who watched him with great delight, could never perceivethe slightest movement of the lips. Being surprised atthis circumstance, he said to him one day, My goodfather, what do you say to our Lord in those long visitsyou pay Him every day and many times a day ?say nothing to Him," was the reply ;I look at Him,and He looks at me."* "A beautiful and sublime answer," says M. Monnin. He said nothing, he opened nobook, he could not read ; but he had eyes, eyes of thebody and eyes of the soul, and he opened them, those ofthe soul *especially, and fixed them on our Lord. I lookat Him.* He fastened upon Him his whole mind, hiswhole heart ; all his senses, and all his faculties. Therewas an. interchange of ineffable thought in those glanceswhich came and went between the heart of the servantand the heart of the Master. This is the secret, the greatsecret, of attaining sanctity. To be saints, is to form theimage of Jesus Christ within us ; and to form Jesus Christwithin us, what must we do ? We must look at Himoften, and look at Him long; for the more we look atHim, the more we shall love Him ;"Iand the more we loveHim, the more shall we be led to imitate Him."A poor widow, la mere Bibot, who came with himfrom Ecully, lived near the church, and kept house (if soitmay be called) for the cure, made a third in this littlegroup of worshipers, which was completed by the arrivalof Mdlle. Pignaut, a person already highly esteemed aiLyons for her piety, and who now left that city* "Je 1 avise, et il m avise."to live