Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
They knew, in Turkey, we had taken our lives in our hands to come to
them, with no thought of ourselves. CLARA BARTON.
No American will hereafter in foreign lands feel any less security
since the American National Red Cross has been before them in Russia
and Armenia. CLARA BARTON.
When the cry came from Turkey, what man was there in all this land
brave enough to lead where Clara Barton went, like an Angel of Mercy?
The boundless love of that woman’s heart! God bless Clara Barton! MRS.
ELLEN SPENCER MUSSEY.
When the wail of the Armenians and downtrodden of the Oriental World
was heard, Clara Barton was among the first to raise the banner of the
Red Cross, like the crusader of old and push forward to the scenes of
anguish and carnage.
MRS. GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN.
The work Clara Barton did in Asia Minor, and which Col. Hinton
designated as the Statesmanship of Philanthropy, was similar to the
work along this line she did at the Sea Islands flood, in the
Carolinas. THE AUTHOR.
Clara Barton, in Asia Minor, has done a splendid work, sensibly and
economically managed. HENRY C. DWIGHT, D.D., American Board of Foreign
Missions at Constantinople.
The difficulties of the work in Asia Minor, the perils and discomforts
would surely have appalled a less courageous heart than Clara
Barton’s. JOS. K. GREENE, Resident Missionary in Armenia.
To Turkey and Armenia—a mission so difficult and perilous that all the
world wondered, watched, waited, hoped and prayed for her success, and
her safe return to her native land. W. H. SEARS.
To us who have seen so much and worked so long and so hard, it would
seem that the Red Cross movement has some “significance”—some
connection with philanthropy. CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross flag has no Christian sense that many suppose. It is
broader than Christianity itself, because it has neither prejudice nor
bounds; Christian, Mohammedan and pagan are the same in the eyes of
the Red Cross. CLARA BARTON.
The principal nations of earth are bound together by the bands of the
highest international law that must make war in the future less
barbarous than it has been in the past. CLARA BARTON.
Bakashish is the substitute for our “tip” system. To make any headway
in Turkey with a hoard of beggars, two words must be mastered:
“Yok”—No; and “Hide-git”—Be off with you.
GEORGE H. PULLMAN, Secretary to Clara Barton in Turkey.
The moral support given in Asia Minor was far beyond any valuation. At
such a money valuation then, the aggregate value of the relief
distribution is nearly $350,000. GEO. H. PULLMAN.
Reticent, constant and efficient, Clara Barton has won the confidence
of every government under whose flag she has labored—as in the land of
the Crescent and Scimitar—and has done honor to her native land. B. H.
WARNER.
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