The Practice of the Presence of God

SURELY if additional proof of its reality were needed, it might be
found in the universal oneness of experimental Christianity in all ages
and in all lands. The experiences of Thomas a Kempis, of Tauler and of
Madame Guyon, of John Woolman and Hester Ann Rogers, how marvellously
they agree, and how perfectly they harmonize! And Nicholas Herman, of
Lorraine, whose letters and converse are here given, testifies to the
same truth! In communion with Rome, a lay brother among the Carmelites,
for several years a soldier, in an irreligious age, amid a sceptical
people, yet in him the practice of the presence of GOD was as much a
reality as the "watch" of the early Friends, and the "holy seed" in him
and others was the "stock" (Isa. vi. 13) from which grew the household
and evangelistic piety of the eighteenth century, of Epworth and of
Moorfields.