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
EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
Truly does the Hindoo say, with averted face: “God only is great.”
CLARA BARTON.
Without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God.
A. LINCOLN.
Each of the great religions of the world seems to have some good in
it. BISHOP W. F. MCDOWELL.
God bless all the Churches. A. LINCOLN.
I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. A. LINCOLN.
There are few people who have memories of harder Church work and
better Church love than I. CLARA BARTON.
In regard to the Great Book, I have only to say that it is the best
gift that God has given to man. A. LINCOLN.
What sensations can possess the mind but wonder and adoration for the
power of Almighty God, and a humble gratitude that no words can speak.
CLARA BARTON.
You believe that God is a Divine Immanence; you believe that God is
now communicating himself to humanity and that his loving Presence is
here now as ever. Why, then, can’t you call up a direct relationship,
rather than going around to the uncertain allusions of Theodore
Parker? CLARA BARTON.
In the Universalist Church at Oxford, where Clara Barton attended
Church, there is carefully preserved the pulpit in which the famous
Reverend Hosea Ballou was ordained in 1794.
THE AUTHOR.
Reverend Father Tyler, a memorable Universalist minister, who
officiated at the funerals of Father and Mother Barton, on the
occasion of her funeral pronounced also at the grave a memorial
tribute to Clara. Among her religious friends also were Hosea Ballou,
Phillips Brooks, Mary Baker Eddy, Archbishops Gibbons and Ireland. THE
AUTHOR.
I firmly believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Jesus of
Nazareth, in His life and death, His suffering to save the world from
sin, so far as in His power to do so. But it would be difficult for me
to stop there, and believe that this spirit of divinity was accorded
to none others of God’s creation who, like the Master, took on the
living form and, like Him, lived the human life.
CLARA BARTON.
Miss Barton does not wait and “wish to be an angel.” She goes right
about it. A visible, substantial, present angel she is—a “ministering
spirit.” W. H. ARMSTRONG.
Over all, spreading its Aegis like a benediction is the great mantle
of Christianity, wrapping all in its beneficent folds.
CLARA BARTON.
WHAT WAS HER RELIGION?
Was Clara Barton a Church woman? Of herself she says: “There are few
people who have memories of harder Church work and better Church love
than I; I have never lost my love for the old Church of my Fathers, my
family and my childhood.”
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