Time rolls rapidly—and the events we meet to revive are already history. Clara Barton.
Clara Barton—before the growing strength and power of her sweet spirit, the armies of the world shall some day halt and ground arms. Madison (Wis.) Journal.
Worcester has even a tenderer affection than all humanity for Clara Barton, the “Angel of the Battlefield.” She was in her Oxford birth a Worcester County Contributor to the world’s upward move. Worcester (Mass.) Post.
Her career as a nurse in the battlefields of the Civil War ranks high among the achievements of women in human history. In the roll of the centuries no other name will stand higher nor shine brighter than that of the modest, the loving, the loyal, the world-wide patriot. Worcester (Mass.) Gazette.
MILLIONS WILL REGARD THE SIMPLICITY OF THE END. Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.
She lives whom we call dead. Henry W. Longfellow.
To die is to begin to live. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Death borders on our birth and our cradle stands in the grave.
Bishop Hall—Epistles.
Death but entombs the body; life, the soul;—death is the crown of life. Young’s Night Thoughts.