Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I just ran into this and thought it might be of interest to some of you (probably mostly to my fellow Latter-day Saints).
Count Leo Tolstoy loved talking to people about religion. In speaking to Dr. Andrew D. White, former President of Cornell University and U.S. Foreign Minister to Russia, Tolstoy brought up the subject of Mormonism, a religion which was, at that time (1892) still relatively new and unknown abroad. Here's what he had to say:
"The Mormon people teach the American religion; their principles teach the people not only of Heaven and its attendant glories, but how to live so that their social and economic relations with each other are placed on a sound basis. If the people follow the teachings of this Church, nothing can stop their progress -- it will be limitless. There have been great movements started in the past but they have died or been modified before they reached maturity. If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generations, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."
Count Leo Tolstoy loved talking to people about religion. In speaking to Dr. Andrew D. White, former President of Cornell University and U.S. Foreign Minister to Russia, Tolstoy brought up the subject of Mormonism, a religion which was, at that time (1892) still relatively new and unknown abroad. Here's what he had to say:
"The Mormon people teach the American religion; their principles teach the people not only of Heaven and its attendant glories, but how to live so that their social and economic relations with each other are placed on a sound basis. If the people follow the teachings of this Church, nothing can stop their progress -- it will be limitless. There have been great movements started in the past but they have died or been modified before they reached maturity. If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generations, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."