Show I T Count is 19 said Mid to have written on an article latel lately In which he has practically pronounced as vain the creed of which he himself has hns preached and practiced so long The reason glen iren Is that no good haa bt been en accomplished by It No Improvement has hns been made In the condition of the b by his sott ot of time hearts ot the rich has come about Jt It all goes gOCS on tho old cruel system of greed and rapine of at ignorance and waste There Is no salva lion for tor time the world through renunciation That Is to say eay Tolstoi It if this notice of t him Is correct has hns virtually come corne to the conclusion that his way 0 of salva lion Is too slow has man nany friends and ers are even It if not many sincere followers The problem ot of his ute life seems to have been the ot the question how to eradicate from mankind that which Is evil H He ha ij arched tar and wide for a remedY h he has thought and prayed praed o earnestly and wrestled os as It were with light on that thal sub subject subject Tolstoi has grasped time g great al pie ot of nonresistance to evil as the true remedy against It Looking around the world ho finds that all the methods em employed tn In the battle against evil only serve to aggravate It It 1 isIke cutting time the weeds teds thereby makIng them grow more luxuriant instead ot of pulling th them m UI by the tho roots The latter latter process the only rational conceives to be rev 1 by the Master when He teaches to r love loe for tor hatred good for tor evil blessings for tor curses curso The human family Is evidently not yet ready nady to receive this doctrine nl al although though It has formed n a part ot of th the Christian system from the beginning But It should not be forgotten that wo we ore are nearIng the time when that funda fundamental mental principle of the tho teach teachings ings IngA will be understood Every new year ear brings us nearer to triumph ot or truth over error Count Tolstoi thou though h not permitted to see much fruit of his from 1 a mere mero titi hu man mam point ot of nevertheless done much toward bringing that truth to the attention ot of his n and that Is not vain Count Tolstoi himself has round found the lie key to all true truo moral progress lie He Hehns line hns seen clearly that that Is a ot of individual reform and not nol conver siona en rna masse As ho be understands this he should patiently walt for do de developments A true reformer Is con content tent with doing his work faithfully and then leaving the results with HIm who rules the fate or of the world Sn In accord accordance once ance with Ills HIs divine plan and pun pur i po poses |