XLIII
I have been shaking hands since nine o’clock this morning, and my right hand is almost paralyzed.
A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.
A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.
A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.
A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.
My “duties?” Receiving and shaking hands withtwo thousand persons, sitting down to the May breakfast at one o’clock with eleven hundred—leaving the table at four P. M.
Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.
Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.
Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.
Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.
All speaking terrifies me.Clara Barton.
Formality and parade I hate.Clara Barton.
Vain pomp and glory of the worldI hate ye.King Henry VIII.
Vain pomp and glory of the worldI hate ye.King Henry VIII.
Vain pomp and glory of the worldI hate ye.King Henry VIII.
Vain pomp and glory of the world
I hate ye.King Henry VIII.
Who was it that said that life is three-fourths conduct? Matthew Arnold, I think.Bishop William F. Mcdowell.
While Clara Barton’s religion was real, it was a thing expressed not in words nor creeds, but almost wholly in deeds.
Reverend Percy H. Epler.
Reverend Percy H. Epler.
Reverend Percy H. Epler.
Reverend Percy H. Epler.
Such lives as Clara Barton’s teach the world a lesson which it must never be permitted to forget—namely, that the wealth of human life is not what it gets, but what it gives.
Rev. Wm. E. Barton, D.D.
Rev. Wm. E. Barton, D.D.
Rev. Wm. E. Barton, D.D.
Rev. Wm. E. Barton, D.D.
The last great public reception to Clara Barton was in Chicago, May 3, 1910. Miss Barton made the trip alone from Washington to Chicago, she then beingnearly ninety years of age. The reception was given by the Social Economics Club, in Mandel’s Tea Room, to twelve hundred delegates, representing the club women of the State of Illinois, Clara Barton being the special guest of honor. Just back of Miss Barton on the stage was a snow-white flag bearing in its center a blazing red cross.
The question to be discussed was “Are We Elevated by Knocks or Boosts?” Under the spell of Miss Barton’s presence, “Knocks” was omitted from the program and “Boosts” resulted in a symposium of tributes,—in an ovation given to Miss Barton “such as few mortals receive.”
Since her death her autograph has become very valuable. Even then it was highly prized, and she was not permitted to leave the hall until every delegate present had her autograph. At the close of the meeting a delegation of Southern women waited on Clara Barton to thank her for what she did for the “boys in Gray” during the Civil War.
The following Sunday evening she was asked to fill the pulpit of a famous Chicago divine. She declined. “But you must, Miss Barton; it is announced, and the audience expects you.”
Commenting on the occasion she remarked to a friend: “I got even with the pastor, for he had to sit in the pulpit to listen to my talk; but possibly more annoying to him is the fact that he sat there, facing the largest audience he had ever seen in his church—wondering all the while what had been the trouble with his sermons.”