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Clara Barton’s services in the Franco-German war, as a member of the Red Cross, were memorable throughout both continents. Holyoke (Mass.) Telegram.
There are old soldiers, veterans of the German battlefield, who still live and tell with tear-dimmed eyes of Clara Barton’s work among the wounded and the dying. Sioux Falls (S. D.) Press.
O, reputation! dearer far than life. Sir Walter Raleigh.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Proverbs.
Good name, in man or woman, is the immediate jewel of their souls. Othello.
Why persecutest thou me? Acts.
Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
King Henry VIII.
Miss Barton witnessed the work of the Red Cross during 1870. Mabel T. Boardman—In “Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad.”
In 1870–71 Clara Barton attached herself by invitation to the foreign Red Cross, and in that relation was actually in the Red Cross work during the entire Franco-Prussian war.
Red Cross Committee.
My physical strength had long ceased to exist, but on the borrowed force of love and memory I strove with might and main—I walked its hospitals day and night; I served in its camps, and I marched with its men; and I know whereof I speak.
Clara Barton.
During the eighteen months of European experience I worked with the Red Cross on my arm. The horrors and sufferings of Weissenburg, Woerth, and Hagenau, Strasbourg, Metz, Sedan and Paris—poor twice shattered Paris—and every besieged and desolated city of France fell under my observation and shared the labor of my hands through eighteen hard and dreadful months.
Clara Barton, in public address at Cape May.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. Bovee.
Our dearly beloved and most honored Clara Barton! She understood fully the meaning of the Red Cross, and knew well how to put into action the great and beautiful, though difficult, duties of the Red Cross. How shall I forget what she was to us here in the year 1870, helping us during the time of war we had to go through with then! God grant her peace eternal! There where her beautiful soul will live in the glory of Christ.
Luise, Grand Duchess of Baden (1912).
OMISSION OF, OR ACQUIESCENCE IN, THE TRAGEDY OF 1904
“PASSES THE BUCK”
It may be we shall let most of the period of the differences with the Red Cross remain in solution till the larger life and letters (by William E. Barton).
Reverend Percy H. Epler,
(In 1915)
One of the “Committee to Advise,” and
Author of “The Life of Clara Barton.”