TOLSTOI ON DRINKING AND ABSTINENCE.
Some ten years ago iviiss Willard sent the documents of the W.CT.U. to Count Leo Tolstoi. He has always shown a great interest in the organisation and became a total abstainer not long after this literature was sent, though it is not known that it had special influence. These words of his show his advanced position on the question: — "The use of wine, or abstinence from it, is no longer a private, but a social matter. All men are now divided — M'hether they will or not — into two camps. Some fight against the use of this worthless poison both by word and deed, abstaining from it themselves and not entertaining their friends with it ; others support by precept, and still more forcibly by example the use of this poison. Whoever thou mayest be thou canst no longer remain between two camps thou must inevitably choose one of two courses — either to resist drunkenness or to support it — to serve God or mammon."
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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167TOLSTOI ON DRINKING AND ABSTINENCE. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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