Mark Twain | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 20.

Mark Twain.

One of the most appreciative obituaries which has come to our notice over the late Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), is from the London Times. Most Americans considered him almost wholly as a humorist, but our English friends seem to see in him more of the philosopher; one who hated sham and took his own way to expose it. Special reference is made in the notices of his death, which occurred April 21, to the great effort that he put forth in paying the debts of the firm with which he was connected; debts which were incurred through no fault of his, but which he in honor felt bound to pay because of his connection with the firm. This he did to the last cent. The Times closes its obituary by saying, "Those who met him then [that is, in his last visit to London] found in him what they had already found in his books; along with much that was mirth-provoking, there was the revelation of a strong character, genial and kindly and honorable, hating with all his might everything that was mean or uncleanly, and delighting in things lively and of good report."