The book Work While Ye Have the Light was written by author Leo Tolstoy (Graf), Emile Joseph Dillon Here you can read free online of Work While Ye Have the Light book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Work While Ye Have the Light a good or bad book?
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Do what I will, I positively cannot under- stand it. A few years ago I was, as I remarked, on the point of forswearing my worldly life, and embracing Christianity. But I was the father of children, and I felt that, however distasteful the fact might be to me, it still remained a fact that I had no right to sacrifice my children ; and, recog- nising this, I stayed on leading my old life for their sakes, in order to bring them up in the same conditions as those in which I was educated myself" Dig...itized by Google 198 PVO^Ar WHILE YE HA VE THE LIGHT. ** It is very odd," said PamphiHus, **that you should reason so. From the same facts we draw opposite conclusions. We say, if grown-up people live in a worldly manner, this is to a certain extent excus- able, because they are spoiled already. But children ? That is horrible ! To live with them in the world, and expose them continually to its temptations and dangers ! • Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence Cometh!' These are the words of our Master ; and I make use of them for that reason, and because they are the expression of the truth, and not merely for the purpose of objecting ; for it is really a fact that the necessity of living as we live results mainly from the circumstances that there are chil- dren in our midst, tender beings of whom Digitized by Google WOI^JC WHILE YE HA VE THE LIGHT.
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