LVII
The philosophy of the old-time African servitor was of the most consoling character—he preached the gospel of contentment, perhaps as divine as any other principle of the moral law.
LaSalle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
LaSalle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
LaSalle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
LaSalle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
America had freed a race.Clara Barton.
A gift must be outright.Clara Barton.
Our gifts fall short of the best.Clara Barton.
Charity and beneficence are degraded by being reduced to a dependence upon a system of beggary.Clara Barton.
Charity bears an open palm; to give is her mission.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
How good it is to make two blades of grass grow where was one.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
I know I am right because I know liberty is right.A. Lincoln.
The colored people would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.A. Lincoln.
My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Grey’s elegy:
“The short and simple annals of the poor.”
“The short and simple annals of the poor.”
“The short and simple annals of the poor.”
“The short and simple annals of the poor.”
A. Lincoln.
A. Lincoln.
A. Lincoln.
A. Lincoln.
The history of philanthropy has few brighter pages to record than at the Sea Island Hurricane, and its pleasant memories will gladden the hearts long after its weary hours are forgotten.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
YOU BUY IT FOR HIM
The policy of the Red Cross was to help people to true independence by enabling them to support themselves by their own work. In Galveston after the flood had produced widespread ruin, Clara Barton authorized her field agent to visit the coast towns, ascertain the needs of the people, and send in requisitions by telegraph. As the agent was leaving on this mission she said:
At the Sea Islands one day a negro came to see me. He said that we had built a little house for him, fenced in his field and garden and given him seed and plow and tools to work with. Now if he had a horse or a mule or a little bull to pull the plow he could put in his crops. I gave instructions that his need should be supplied and, as the horse or mule could not be found, a two-year-old steer was bought for him.
Now you are going to the coast country, but wherever you go in all the world if you find anybody who needs a horse or a mule or a little bull, you buy it for him.
Oh, chillun, life’s contra’wise,But you’ll neber know no diff’unce’Twel you’s knockin’ at de skies.
Oh, chillun, life’s contra’wise,But you’ll neber know no diff’unce’Twel you’s knockin’ at de skies.
Oh, chillun, life’s contra’wise,But you’ll neber know no diff’unce’Twel you’s knockin’ at de skies.
Oh, chillun, life’s contra’wise,
But you’ll neber know no diff’unce
’Twel you’s knockin’ at de skies.