Article August 8, 1901 Issue

Count Tolstoi and Christian Science

W. D. McCrackan

The New York World

To the Editor of The World.

A recent issue of your paper contained the cabled report of an interview with Count Leo Tolstoi in Paris, in which he was quoted as speaking disparagingly of Christian Science. Feeling quite sure that the remarks attributed to him must be the result of some mistake, since the great reformer is known to be in sympathy with all movements tending toward a purer Christianity, I wrote to him directly at Yasnaia Poliana, Toula, Russia, inclosing the newspaper clipping. I have just received a communication signed by his daughter, in which she assures me that the article is founded upon an error; that her father never felt anything but respect for Christian Science. But for his illness, she continued, he would have written me personally.

I think there is every reason why Count Tolstoi's real sentiments should not be misstated at this time, and therefore thank you for this correction. W. D. McCrackan.
In The New York World.

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