Article July 17, 1902 Issue

The Great Apostle of Non-Resistance

with contributions from Principal Fairbairn

Current history presents few characters of more striking originality than Count Tolstoy. Born a prince and aristocrat, he has impressed the world as a soldier, a statesman, a novelist, a reformer, and a saint; and his home has become a mecca to which people of all classes and from every land make their pilgrimages.

We are indebted to the Congregationalist for the following sketch of the man and his surrounding from the pen of Dr. Edward A. Steiner.—Eds.

Over the fields of Yasnaya broods the mist of an early autumn morning. The year is growing old, and the air is full of monitions of the coming winter when the pall of death will lie over Yasnaya. From between two white-washed towers steps a man, a mujik in dress, a god in consciousness of power. A scythe in his strong hand hangs over his broad, bent shoulders, and, as he crushes the bedewed grass by his elastic stride, in his gray eyes there sparkles the light of two worlds, and he looks like Father Time breaking the way for a new epoch in the history of men.

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