LVI
Clara Barton, the good angel of comfort, will live enshrined in the hearts of America and of the world.
Western Christian(Ohio)Advocate.
Western Christian(Ohio)Advocate.
Western Christian(Ohio)Advocate.
Western Christian(Ohio)Advocate.
Great evils die hard.Clara Barton.
Don’t drink.A. Lincoln.
Cold water,—the only beverage I have used, or allowed, in my family.A. Lincoln.
The saloon, the most blighting curse;—liquor traffic, the tragedy of civilization—I am a practical prohibitionist.A. Lincoln.
Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all the evils among mankind.A. Lincoln.
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims there is not one slave nor drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.
A. Lincoln—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)
A. Lincoln—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)
A. Lincoln—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)
A. Lincoln—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)
Although the temperance cause has been in progress for nearly twenty years, it is apparent to all that it is just now being crowned with a degree of success hitherto unparalleled.—Hail, full of fury! Reign of reason, all hail!A. Lincoln, February 22, 1842.
Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds.
Chesterfield.
Chesterfield.
Chesterfield.
Chesterfield.
Lincoln’s tenderness was as gentle as a woman’s.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Lincoln was human and thus touched the chord that makes the world akin.H. W. Bolton, D.D.
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of their genius are always the works of love.Lamartine.
The son had broken a mother’s heart, and crushed out her life. The relatives and other mourners were at the open grave, made ready to receive her. Among them stood the son, then maudlin with drink. In that pathetic scene was Clara Barton. She stepped to the side of the boy, and grasped his arm. The ceremony halted. In a low voice she made her appeal; she won his heart; he promised—The casket was lowered; the group separated and she led the boy away. A few more words, then humanity’s friend and the boy parted, she to other deeds of mercy and he to a new life.