It was here that she basked in the sunset rays, as they dipped gently towards the west. Yonder are the trees which she planted with her own hands; yonder the soil wherein grew her beautiful flowers; yonder humanity’s centre from which flowed her charities to almost every part of the known world; yonder the chamber from whose bed of sorrow she cried: “Let me go; let me go”; yonder the window through whose casement on Easter Morn, in 1912, her spirit flew to the Great Unknown. Nature that springs from the soil decays and dies; deeds that spring from the soul never die. Nature’s foliage that ornaments is destroyed by the frosts of winter; the spiritual foliage that ornaments is perennial. The American Red Cross whose bud, in 1881, opened to the sunlight in the forests of Michigan is now the sheltering tree for the world’s millions; the woman that planted the seed and nourished it with her tears, as later she planted that other tree known as THE NATIONAL FIRST AID, is now the spirit that stands sponsor for certain charities, charities the most widely known of all the charities of earth. Neither marble nor canvas is so venerated as the tree, from out of GOD’S FIRST TEMPLES—a tree to commemorate the individual is the most venerated memorial in the world. The world will little care, or note not at all, what we say and do here and yet the spirit of these environments may become the inspiration of future ages. The mound that soon must shut out from view our mortality will be leveled and covered with earth’s foliage, only to be forgotten or marked “UNKNOWN.” But let us pray that the tree, whose sentiment is world-humanity, may take highest rank among the world’s other historic trees; that through the centuries the children of successive generations will love and protect THE CLARA BARTON OAK, NATURE’S EASTER-TRIBUTE TO IMMORTALITY. [Illustration: Planting the “Clara Barton Rose”—Miss Carrie Harrison, Chairman Clara Barton Centennial Committee of the National Woman’s Party. ] MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING TO THE MEMORY OF CLARA BARTON [Illustration: Charles Sumner Young, while delivering the memorial address. ] 25. Summer of 1865 at Andersonville identifying the dead, and laying out the first National Cemetery, by request of the Government. Raised the first United States flag over Andersonville. 26. 1865–67 Searching for the 80,000 missing men of the army. Found 19,920 of them at an expense to herself without pay of $17,000. The Government reimbursed $15,000 of this sum. 27. The Lecture Field. Delivered 300 at $100 per lecture on the battlefields of the Civil War, 1867–8. THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR Was on the following battlefield and relief fields during this war:— 28. Hagenau, battlefield. 29. Metz, battlefield. 30. Strasburg, battlefield (8 months) siege, and relief after siege. 31. Belfort, relief. 32. Woerth, relief. 33. Baden Hospitals. 34. Sedan, battlefields. 35. Montbelard, relief.