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No cynic will find a flaw in what Miss Barton did.
Boston (Mass.)Record.
Boston (Mass.)Record.
Boston (Mass.)Record.
Boston (Mass.)Record.
The spiteful factionist, to be found in every cause—even the cause of Christ himself—formed an opposition to Miss Barton.
Harrisburg (Pa.)Telegram.
Harrisburg (Pa.)Telegram.
Harrisburg (Pa.)Telegram.
Harrisburg (Pa.)Telegram.
Truth hath a quiet breast.Shakespeare.
Great souls suffer in silence.Schiller.
Silence is the Mother of Truth.Earl of Beaconsfield.
Come, let us have peace.U. S. Grant.
Peace to the land forevermore.Clara Barton.
I never spoke a discordant word in my life, meaningly.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Like her Master, whom she followed, Clara Barton opened not her mouth.Kate Brownlee Sherwood.
And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders He answered nothing.St. Matthew.
“There has been no Red Cross controversy,” says Clara Barton, “as the sensational press has termed it, inasmuch as the Red Cross has taken no controversial part. It has only spoken when itmust, and as little as possible, and its President not at all, nor ever will.
“When it is necessary for me to defend myself before theAmerican people, let me fall. I should not valuethe defense thus gained, and I trust I shall never feel it needful.”
In her later years the following was oft quoted by Clara Barton:
The stars come nightly to the sky,The tidal wave unto the seaI’ll rail no more ’gainst time or tide,For lo! my own shall come to me.
The stars come nightly to the sky,The tidal wave unto the seaI’ll rail no more ’gainst time or tide,For lo! my own shall come to me.
The stars come nightly to the sky,The tidal wave unto the seaI’ll rail no more ’gainst time or tide,For lo! my own shall come to me.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea
I’ll rail no more ’gainst time or tide,
For lo! my own shall come to me.