The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-24
AMERICAS ALMONER." !"
Miss Clara Barton's Mission in Armenia
Described by Rev. r. II. Pullman,
of Baltimore.

Described by Rev. r. II. Pullman.
of Baltimore.
The Baltimore Sun, of Monday,
October II, reports lecture deliv-
cred in that city on the previous Sun
day entitled "America's Almoner"
describing Clara Barton's recent mis-
sion to Armenia. Rev. r. 81. Pull
man, of the Baltimore Universalist
church, was the lecturer. We trans
fer the report as printed in the Sun,
as follows:
"Clara Barton arrived in New York,
September II, from Turkey, and,
with her secretary, went Immediately
to our summer home, on one of the
Thousand Islands of the St. Law
renee river, for rest. The week she
spent with us not only gave her
needed rest, but gave us rare op-
portunity to learn from her own lips
the wonderful story of her work in
Turkey, its marvellous success in af-
fording relief to the Armenians and
many of the incidents connected
with that splendid work.
81 can do but scant justice in a
single lecture to a mission SO noble
as hers, or to that heroism which won
success and which has added fresh
laurels to the name already honored
by the successes of a lifetime devoted
to the cause of humanity. She
obeyed a popular call in taking up
this work of relief. She went as the
almoner of American charity for the
suffering people in Armenia. The
work of the American missionaries
has been hedged in, and through the
religious fanaticism of the Turks
generally there have arisen almost
insuperable difficulties in their way
of affording relief. Leading minds
among those deeply interested in the
work of the missionaries saw that if
relief was to be afforded to the suf
ferers some other way must be de-
vised.
'sMiss Barton went, not in the name
of any sect, neither in the name OF
Christian religion, but in the name
of humanity. The word Christian
did not appear, but the Spirit of our
blessed Lord was in all her work of
relief.
son arriving at Constantinople she
quietly presented herself to the Sub
lime Porte, and, in her simple and
impressive way, said she had come in
the name of no religion and had
nothing to do with politics, but men,
women and children we're suffering
in the province of Armenia-this
suffering she had come, in the name
of humanity, to relieve. Without
difficulty she was permitted to pro-
ceed, with promises of all needful
protection. And from first to last
she was treated courteously by the
Turkish government and was never
interfered with in her work as she
had planned it.
"Perhaps she is the only woman in
the world who could have accom-
plished this work OF winning the res
pect and securing the protection of
these high dignitaries of the Turkish
empire. l am confident no man
could have done it so cleverly and so
we'll. She was for the time in this
work the biggest man in Turkey. A
single incident illustrates the power
of her name;
"She had organized a corps of ply
sicians to go into the fever-stricken
districts, there to divide into smaller
companies and to establish tempo
rary hospitals, which was done, and
the work will stand as an everlasting
monument to her tact and to her sa-
gacity. Almost at the outset this