Although the temperance cause has been in progress for nearly twenty years, it is apparent to all that it is just now being crowned with a degree of success hitherto unparalleled.—Hail, full of fury! Reign of reason, all hail! A. LINCOLN, February 22, 1842. Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds. CHESTERFIELD. Lincoln’s tenderness was as gentle as a woman’s. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Lincoln was human and thus touched the chord that makes the world akin. H. W. BOLTON, D.D. God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of their genius are always the works of love. LAMARTINE. SHE WON HIS HEART The son had broken a mother’s heart, and crushed out her life. The relatives and other mourners were at the open grave, made ready to receive her. Among them stood the son, then maudlin with drink. In that pathetic scene was Clara Barton. She stepped to the side of the boy, and grasped his arm. The ceremony halted. In a low voice she made her appeal; she won his heart; he promised—The casket was lowered; the group separated and she led the boy away. A few more words, then humanity’s friend and the boy parted, she to other deeds of mercy and he to a new life. LVII The philosophy of the old-time African servitor was of the most consoling character—he preached the gospel of contentment, perhaps as divine as any other principle of the moral law. LASALLE CORBELL PICKETT—“_In de Miz Series_.” America had freed a race. CLARA BARTON. A gift must be outright. CLARA BARTON. Our gifts fall short of the best. CLARA BARTON. Charity and beneficence are degraded by being reduced to a dependence upon a system of beggary. CLARA BARTON. Charity bears an open palm; to give is her mission. CLARA BARTON. How good it is to make two blades of grass grow where was one. CLARA BARTON. I know I am right because I know liberty is right. A. LINCOLN. The colored people would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. A. LINCOLN. My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Grey’s elegy: “The short and simple annals of the poor.” A. LINCOLN. The history of philanthropy has few brighter pages to record than at the Sea Island Hurricane, and its pleasant memories will gladden the hearts long after its weary hours are forgotten. CLARA BARTON. YOU BUY IT FOR HIM