The Red Cross : in peace and war . ing our balls;Oer that house of mercy with plain, white Red Cross flag was the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven For a world of warring and sighingWe hailed it; and cheered, for the promise givenBy the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven —The Red Cross banner we know that wherever the battle was waged. With its wounded and dead and dying —Where the wrath of pagan or Christian raged — Like the mercy of God, where the battle was Red Cross flag was flying. 36o THE RED CROSS. Let the angry legions meet in the fight, Wi
The Red Cross : in peace and war . ing our balls;Oer that house of mercy with plain, white Red Cross flag was the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven For a world of warring and sighingWe hailed it; and cheered, for the promise givenBy the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven —The Red Cross banner we know that wherever the battle was waged. With its wounded and dead and dying —Where the wrath of pagan or Christian raged — Like the mercy of God, where the battle was Red Cross flag was flying. 36o THE RED CROSS. Let the angry legions meet in the fight, With tlie noise of captains crying;Yet the arm of Christ outstretched in its might. Where the angry legions meet in the fight, Keeps the Red Cross banner it surely will come that war will cease, With its madness and pain in crying,Lo! the blood-red Cross is the prophet of peace — Of the blessed time when war will cease — And the Red Cross flag is flying. John T. Napier, in the Moravian. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN the subsequent chapters is traced the history of theoperations of the American National Red Crossduring the past year, inckiding the distribution ofrehef among the Reconcentrados in Cuba,and the auxiliary field and hospital service in theSpanish-American war. Being called away to Cuba in the midst ofthe preparations for w^ar relief, with much of thepreliminary work unfinished, it seemed proper toleave at home, for a time, a personal representa-tive familiar with the obligations of the National Red Cross, to relievethe overburdened committee in New York of some of the detailswhich fell more particularly within my own province, and to whichI had planned to give personal attention. Accordingly, Mr. D. L. Cobb, of my staff, was detached for thisservice. Being familiar with the work which was done in mv absence,and in which he has faithfully and elificiently served with an interestsecond only to my own, I have asked him to tell the story of the rela-tions
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