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

XLIII

I have been shaking hands since nine o’clock this morning, and my right hand is almost paralyzed.

A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.

My “duties?” Receiving and shaking hands with two thousand persons, sitting down to the May breakfast at one o’clock with eleven hundred—leaving the table at four P. M.

Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.

All speaking terrifies me. Clara Barton.

Formality and parade I hate. Clara Barton.

Vain pomp and glory of the world

I hate ye. King Henry VIII.

Who was it that said that life is three-fourths conduct? Matthew Arnold, I think. Bishop William F. Mcdowell.

While Clara Barton’s religion was real, it was a thing expressed not in words nor creeds, but almost wholly in deeds.

Reverend Percy H. Epler.

Such lives as Clara Barton’s teach the world a lesson which it must never be permitted to forget—namely, that the wealth of human life is not what it gets, but what it gives.

Rev. Wm. E. Barton, D.D.