Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-12-29
Orr J&thuP&trP nf 141nrk
attA BFath nn GErarartrr
BY COUNT LEO ToLsToI
BY COUNT LEO ToLsToI.

In the lore of the South American Indian it is
told that God they did need
to work They needed no clothes and no houses and
u .aa all grew TO be more than years old without ever
SA ~ being sick.
I.8 - Years passed and then God saw that lived
selfish lives, each caring only for himself that
NJ they quarrcled among themselves and not only
NJ dissatisfied with life but even often wished them
~ l selves dead
Then God said: "This comes from their self
-------A isl life"
TO put an end to it lie made so that be-
came impossible to live without working and protect themselves
against cold and hunger had make clothes pillow the SOIL to
gather fruits and cultivate grain
Work will bring them together" said God One
alone cannot cut down big trees beams them and buc
house man alone possibly make tools grain
and clothes and easy they together the
they will produce and the easier they will make life for
other and the more they will love another.
Again years passed and Cod again looked down the world
to see how we're living.
But before They working together
because do but they did all work together
they had divided themselves groups and each group tried to take
advantage OF the Others and all suffering under this jealousy and
selhshness.
When God decided to make
when death might and that everybody might die that time
And He told them thsr
"When they know that anyone may die any time they will
longer quarrel burden themselves with the OF life which
come to end the next and they will longer cmbter M
for on another"
But did not help any, When God again looked down He saw
that the stronger ensg the weaker that they killed and
threatened others with death And last it became that the
stronger and their descendants did work all but icd the days
while weaker had beyond their
given time for recreation And they all became filed with
hatred of another that life miserable than
When God this he them diseases OF all kinds thinking
that when they that they all succt sickness the
would and help the weaker that these might and for
them i'll should they become ILL.,
And God left themselves but when lie looked
down how living hat they become
sick and helpless times He that their life than
Sickness which He had thought should unite them had carried them
still further apart.
The who by right of their strength had compelled others
had begun the weaker them when
sick, but they left the shift for themselves when
sickness overlook them And thoscwho had been forced to work for
others them when they sick ovcrurdened
with work that they had time their sick but had to
them die and that the sick people should not be in the way OF the
rich and powerful they placed Them in houses together where they
might and die alone and w nursing by persons who
them, but hired
contagious the rich people kept away only from the sick but
from those who nursed the sicjl
Then said I'll in this make
happiness will let them shift for themselves
And s God left men,
Deserted by God lived i'll the world for years without
being able discover what they needed be happy But after
began that work but that
really blessing which ought unite all in brothr love- They also
with death threatening everybody all times the
live spend the allotted each be they
love and work for oersand they began understand
that sickness the dscor among but
that it ought foundation love charity all