He was particularly critical of William Scott Ament (1851–1909), who as a longtime agent of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) had extorted reparations from Chinese villages where Christians had been killed or their property destroyed. In his essays “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” and “To My Missionary Critics,” published in the North American Review for February and April 1901, respectively, Mark Twain expressly disparaged foreign missions in China in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion.
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