James Stalker, Imago Christi: The Example of Jesus Christ (New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1889), ch. I, "Introductory: Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ," p. 25.

To us it is God's world; and our vocation is to make God's will be done in all departments of its life and to make His Word run on all its highways and bye-ways. Monasticism was a confession on the part of Christianity o…