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
The Government of my country _is_ my country, and the people of my
country are the government of my country as nearly as a representative
system will allow. CLARA BARTON.
The Government which I thought I loved, and loyally tried to serve,
has shut every door in my face, and stared at me insultingly through
its windows. CLARA BARTON.
The humanity of peoples is beyond that of Governments.
CLARA BARTON.
Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou showest
thee in a child than the sea monster.
SHAKESPEARE.
Of all the anguish our Heavenly Father calls us to endure—none pierces
more keenly, nor wounds more deeply, than the sting of ingratitude.
CLARA BARTON.
Dear Clara Barton! I hope that somewhere she is reaping a glorious
reward of her life-long heroism and self-sacrifice. MRS. LA SALLE
CORBELL PICKETT.
Clara Barton will still live as a potential force for good, and coming
centuries will see her labors carried on even as they were carried on
while she directed them in person.
Springfield (Illinois) _News_.
Sublime, O Life, when in Easter balms did cease,
When shadows of thy sunset hour bore thee “peace.”
E. May Glenn Toon.
A RECORD HISTORY AT THE FUNERAL
The funeral exercises for Clara Barton, who had served for 23 years as
President of the Red Cross, were held in her Red Cross home in Glen
Echo, Maryland. Flowers in profusion were there; her personal and _real_
friends, with moistened eyes and aching hearts, were there; hundreds of
telegrams of sympathy from all over the country were there; millions of
humanity-loving American men and women, in spirit, were there; her
devoted friend and immediate successor as President of the Red Cross,
Mrs. General John A. Logan, was there.
History will record that certain then acting officials of the Red Cross,
either personally or in sympathy, were _not_ there; that not a flower,
not a word of sympathy, from any Red Cross official was there; that not
national honors, not even Red Cross honors, were then bestowed lovingly
or at all upon the great and good Red Cross Mother, that made possible
officially the very existence of the then Red Cross officers.
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