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Clara Barton has built an imperishable monument for herself in the hearts of the people of all creeds. Dallas (Texas)Herald.
Clara Barton—her deeds lend honor to her country’s fame.
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Clara Barton—the embodiment of one vital principle of all creeds, the love of humanity.Detroit Free Press.
Before her gentle assault the steel walls of religious prejudice and race hatred melted like a mist. Leadville (Colo.)Herald.
Put your Creed in your Deed.Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Souls in Heaven are placed by their deeds.Robert Greene.
Things of today? Deeds which are honest, for eternity.
Ebenezer Elliott.
Ebenezer Elliott.
Ebenezer Elliott.
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Truly does the Hindoo say, with averted face: “God only is great.”Clara Barton.
Without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God.A. Lincoln.
Each of the great religions of the world seems to have some good in it.Bishop W. F. McDowell.
God bless all the Churches.A. Lincoln.
I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible.A. Lincoln.
There are few people who have memories of harder Church work and better Church love than I.Clara Barton.
In regard to the Great Book, I have only to say that it is the best gift that God has given to man.A. Lincoln.
What sensations can possess the mind but wonder and adoration for the power of Almighty God, and a humble gratitude that no words can speak.Clara Barton.
You believe that God is a Divine Immanence; you believe that God is now communicating himself to humanity and that his loving Presence is here now as ever. Why, then, can’t you call up a direct relationship, rather than going around to the uncertain allusions of Theodore Parker?Clara Barton.
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.
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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.
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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.
Clara Barton.
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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.”
Was she a Mormon? A friend of the Mormons, and one of the biggest receptions ever tendered to her was in the tabernacle at Salt Lake City, by the Mormons of Utah. Was she a Mohammedan? She was most cordially received by the Mohammedans, and decorated by the Sultan of Turkey. Was she a Spiritualist? She attended spiritualistic meetings, studied the cult, consulted mediums, and mingled with spiritualists. Commenting on the fact, claimed, that spiritual communications occur between those of this world and those of the other world, she said: “I am more and more filled with wonder how these things can be” but—“I hope so.”
Was she a Catholic? She frequently attended the Catholic Church, and counted among her friends Sisters of Mercy, Priests, Bishops, and Archbishops. Was she a Congregationalist? She attended that Church at times. Several Congregational ministers officiated at the funeral, and a beautiful Clara Barton window is preserved in the Congregational Church at Oxford. Was she a Methodist? She attended the Methodist Church, and the Methodists now use Clara Barton leaflets, and other Clara Barton literature, in their Sunday Schools throughout the country.
Was she a Christian Scientist? She said: “I do not know enough to be one, nor to understand it,” but shealso said: “I cannot see why Universalists should not become Christian Scientists.” She attended the Christian Science Church for three years, but a leading scientist editor said: “We do not claim her, nor do I think any other Church can claim her.” Was she a Universalist? She was reared a Universalist, and in her youth attended the Universalist Church where the famous divine, Hosea Ballou, was pastor and she also requested a Universalist pastor to assist in officiating at her funeral.
She attended other Churches, and ministers of several denominations officiated at her funeral. Clara Barton says: “I am not what the world denominates a Church woman; I was born to liberal views, and have lived a liberal creed.”
But really what was her religion? “Perplexed in faith but pure in deeds,” Clara Barton, to the annoying question so often asked by the curious, answered: “I am a well disposed pagan.”