Resurrection
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Count Leo Tolstoy >> Resurrection
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The husbandman imagined that the vineyard in which they were sent
to work for their master was their own, that all that was in was
made for them, and that their business was to enjoy life in this
vineyard, forgetting the Master and killing all those who
reminded them of his existence. "Are we do not doing the same,"
Nekhludoff thought, "when we imagine ourselves to be masters of
our lives, and that life is given us for enjoyment? This
evidently is an incongruity. We were sent here by some one's will
and for some reason. And we have concluded that we live only for
our own joy, and of course we feel unhappy as labourers do when
not fulfilling their Master's orders. The Master's will is
expressed in these commandments. If men will only fulfil these
laws, the Kingdom of Heaven will be established on earth, and men
will receive the greatest good that they can attain to.
"'Seek ye first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you.'
"And so here it is, the business of my life. Scarcely have I
finished one and another has commenced." And a perfectly new life
dawned that night for Nekhludoff, not because he had entered into
new conditions of life, but because everything he did after that
night had a new and quite different significance than before. How
this new period of his life will end time alone will prove.
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