Hours' Adoration, and others. It is, then, a most substantial consolation that our diocese of Cincinnati is enriched with two branches of the Tabernacle Society. I hope that this report will bring many more good Catholics to join the society and to have a share in its merits — some, by the work of their hands, some by contributions of money or of serviceable articles or materials, and all by their prayers, particularly before the Tabernacle."
His Eminence Cardinal Svampa once addressed the members of the Tabernacle Society of the Diocese of Forli, after his promotion to the cardinalate and his nomination to the Archbishopric of Bologna.
In that allocution his Eminence demonstrated clearly the twofold object of the association, namely, to combine the prayer of Mary with the work of Martha* for .the greater glory of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. He said:
"The work to which you devote yourselves is truly sublime, but it must be understood and practised in all its completeness. From the day on which I inaugurated this grand association I have told you that its members should unite the fervor of Mary to the activity of Martha, to render honor and glory to the Most Holy Sacrament. The associates have, in fact, a double duty to fulfil, adoration— devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and work — devotedness and almsgiving to provide sacred vestments for poor churches. This twofold exercise is so essential, so inherent to the association, that if either be omitted the work fails to attain its end.
" If the hand is generous in offering gifts in money or kind, and the heart does not nourish the flame of devotion to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the sacrament of His love by means of adoration, we shall have, it is true, splendid exhibitions which will attract the admira-
