In the Universalist Church at Oxford, where Clara Barton attended Church, there is carefully preserved the pulpit in which the famous Reverend Hosea Ballou was ordained in 1794.
The Author.
Reverend Father Tyler, a memorable Universalist minister, who officiated at the funerals of Father and Mother Barton, on the occasion of her funeral pronounced also at the grave a memorial tribute to Clara. Among her religious friends also were Hosea Ballou, Phillips Brooks, Mary Baker Eddy, Archbishops Gibbons and Ireland. The Author.
I firmly believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Jesus of Nazareth, in His life and death, His suffering to save the world from sin, so far as in His power to do so. But it would be difficult for me to stop there, and believe that this spirit of divinity was accorded to none others of God’s creation who, like the Master, took on the living form and, like Him, lived the human life.
Clara Barton.
Miss Barton does not wait and “wish to be an angel.” She goes right about it. A visible, substantial, present angel she is—a “ministering spirit.” W. H. Armstrong.
Over all, spreading its Aegis like a benediction is the great mantle of Christianity, wrapping all in its beneficent folds.
Clara Barton.
WHAT WAS HER RELIGION?
Was Clara Barton a Church woman? Of herself she says: “There are few people who have memories of harder Church work and better Church love than I; I have never lost my love for the old Church of my Fathers, my family and my childhood.”