Show I I TOLSTOI REVILES REVILES CHURCH I nl Author Si S1 Sas S 'S r Lies Ilen le a anil I I B Id I'd Follow 1 t tUI Paris Pat Jan 20 Religion lun Is truth antI and goodness the time church falsehood and evil I tell you frankly fm ly I can not riot agree aree with wih those who believe belec the time church Is an organization In Indispensable ble for religion The Time church bus hus ever r e been a er cruel el and lying lying institution which in lit seeking for fO temporal advantage advantages tage has perverted and distorted the theThis theu u This startling statement Js contained is in a letter b Count letor by Leo Tolstoi to Paul apropos of the time the Jailers Jailer's later's recent book bool on 0 time tho disestablishment of or the church In Jn France Time The famous H Russian author author- pi edicts time tle possible i of all aU time the Christian coun coun- tries of the time west to a 1 state of ot vassalage vas vas- salago to time the Japanese and oriental peoples He le bases his prediction upon I the ground it is only in tho time orient that religion and patriotism patriotism- are arc in ou SAl S. S All Al ul the tho concordats concordat have imae been bean leen noth noth- lug ing but hut compacts with tho time state slate whereby where here by lie church ChUch supported the tho state in return for or specific material tues continues the time leter letter Christianity Chris Chrls has ever been simply a l pretext pre pre- pre pre- text lext for the time church I may itma be bc told that timer there have been and amid still tU are in imm the ti-me Catholic world men inca arid d women of ol hol holy life but I answer that these sainted lives Jives are aro not due to the time church but lut rather in lii spite sImiLe of or the time church In spite of ot alt all al the he elTon efforts of church chulch and state slate to lo tho the two principles true Christianity love o e humility and kindness an and that of or the time state stale physical physical cal force and violence time the tion ton has become In our OU time so fla flagrant la- la fla- fla grant ant that a solution is bound to come Several symptoms IHO e prove this First the time movement mo ement is not confined to Frn France c but lUt exists in lii all aU Christian countries second the te revolution In Russia lusla third the time extraordinary mil tal tars tary and amid Industrial progress pi-ogi-cas which i Is manifesting Itself in the time orient I In China Cumin antI and ant especially in Iii Japan The present pi religious movement which is going on not only emily in Catholic countries but in the time whole world I believe belec is nothing but the unrest est nc tic- tho time exit from roam Ito Uio ma |