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"HE RESTORES HIS CHURCH. 53inthe church at two or three o clock in the morning, andagain at night after a hard day s toil ?I know there are still some hardened sinners whoresist all the efforts of their pastor. Evil will glide inevery where, and seems to be rendered more intense in itsperversity by the neighbourhood of any great good ; butany one who knows Les Dombes, or who will be pleasedto remember what was the state of Ars before the arrivalof M. Vianney, and what is still the state of the surrounding parishes, will account the change which he has wroughtamong his own people the greatest among the miracles ofthis holy priest of Jesus Christ."CHAPTER V.He restores and ornaments his church, and builds several chapelsHis devotion to St. Philomena His labours for souls withinand without his parish.NEXT only to his zeal for the salvation of souls and thepurification of those living temples of God, was the careof M. Vianney for the order and beauty of His materialsanctuary. The austere lover of poverty was even lavishand prodigal where the glory of God s house was to bemaintained. When he came to Ars he found his littlechurch cold and empty as the hearts of the worshipers.His first care was to replace the high altar, which wasactually falling to pieces from age and neglect, by onemore worthy of its sacred purpose. It was a joyful dayto him when the fine new altar was erected at his own solecharge for he would have counted ;it shame to ask the aidof others till he had exhausted his own resources. Next,*le old curving of the choir was renovated, under his