Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
better than a straight march out in the sunlight of
fact. It seems a curious idea.
However, those two clergymen were in a large
measure right-from their point of view and the
Board's; which is, putting it in the form of a couple
of questions:
I. Did Dr. Ament collect the assessed damages and
thirteen times over? The answer is: He did not. He
collected only a third over.
2. Did he apply the third to the "propagation of the
Gospel?" The answer is this correction: He applied
it to "church expenses." Part or all of the outlay,
it appears, goes to " supporting widows and orphans."
It may be that church expenses and supporting
widows and orphans are not part of the machinery
for propagating the Gospel. I supposed they were,
but it isn't any matter; I prefer this phrasing; it is
not so blunt as the other.
In the opinion of the two clergymen and of the
Board, these two points are the only important ones
in the whole C. E. dispatch.
I accept that. Therefore let us throw out the
rest of the dispatch as being no longer a part of
Dr. Ament's case.
EXHIBIT H
The two clergymen and the Board are quite content with Dr.
Ament's answers upon the two points.
Upon the first point of the two, my own viewpoint may be indicated by a question:
Did Dr. Ament collect from B (whether by compulsion or simple demand) even so much as a penny in
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