| Charles Henry Twain lived during the latter
part of the seventeenth century, and was a zealous and distinguished missionary.
He converted sixteen thousand South Sea islanders, and taught them that
a dog-tooth necklace and a pair of spectacles was not enough clothing to
come to divine service in. His poor flock loved him very, very dearly; and
when his funeral was over, they got up in a body (and came out of the restaurant)
with tears in their eyes, and saying, one to another, that he was a good
tender missionary, and they wished they had some more of him. - A Burlesque Autobiography |
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We are all missionaries (propagandists of our views.) Each of us disapproves
of the other missionaries.
- Notebook, 1905
O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China! Come home and convert
these Christians.
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"
...missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you
had to do was to cure the head savage's sick daughter by a miracle--a miracle
like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance--and immediately that head
savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert's enthusiasm.
You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert
the rest of the nation himself.
- "Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty"
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