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

by Charles Sumner Young

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Clara Barton saved too many lives to count.

Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.

The lives he had saved were enough to gain Heaven’s chiefest diadem. Clara Barton.

God’s plans are known only to Himself. He alone knows what plan He is working out. Clara Barton.

The grave is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light through a brief darkness. Longfellow.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Grey.