"Later that year, at about the time of Stockham's visit, Tolstoy
received a letter and publications from a different Shaker community, at
Mt. Lebanon, New York (also near Albany). The writer was Alonzo
Hollister (1830-1911), who addressed him as "Apostle of Cod to your
Nation" and assured him: "Your conduct and writings are stirring the
religious thought of America to its very depths." It was Tolstoy's
advocacy of non-resistance that particularly attracted Hollister: "I
write to strengthen your heart & hands, & to let you know there is a
people who sympathize with your efforts to teach human brotherhood, and
the principles of peace and non-resistance to evil--that is, not to
resist evil with evil, but to overcome evil with good." (He had not read
Tolstoy's works, but learned of him from published sermons on Tolstoy's
ethics and from the accounts of a visit by an Episcopal clergyman,
William W. Newton, which quoted copiously from My Confession. He also
sent Shaker publications, several of which were new to Tolstoy."

Tolstoy's American Preachers: Letters on Religion and Ethics, 1886-1908.
Contributors: Robert Whittaker - author. Journal Title: TriQuarterly.
Volume: 107-108. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 561.

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