The Archive · 1901

The Mark Twain Missionary Episode

may now be considered closed, For a time, considerable interest attached to The result is that the missionaries have been so thoroughly exonerated from all blame: n their efforts to provide for the refugees whose Inbours had made possible the salvation of the foreign communities at both Tientsin and Petiny, as acknowledged by all, but for whom the Allie! Powers would' make no provision whatever; and the benefits accruing from Mission operations have been made so prominent, that the Church, and missionaries in particular, cannot be too grateful tothe Hon. Mark for his huge joke. I: is probably the best of his life, and he deserves the thanks of all,

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