Colors at St. Stephen's 18

Sisters of Unit No. 2--The Only Sisters of the A. E. F. 26

Seventh Division Troops Boarding Leviathan at Hoboken 34

In Rue de Belgrade--Lull Before Battle 42

Taps and Farewell Volleys for Our Heroic Dead 50

The Battle Swept Roadside Was Sanctuary and Choir 66

The Men Behind Our Mess at Bouillonville 74

Our Dugouts Afforded Shelter and Habitation 82

Thiacourt Under Shell-Fire 90

Doctor Lugar and Aids Working in a Gas Attack Near Jolney 98

The Wounded Were Carried to the Nearest Shelter 114

St. Joan of Arc 122

Where St. Joan of Arc Made Her First Communion 130

In the Church at Domremy 138

"Greater Love Than This No Man Has" 146

PREFACE

To him who will but observe the genesis and development of moral
qualities, whether in the individual Man or in the collective State,
there finally comes, with compelling force, the conviction--God is in
His world and has care of it! Out of the slime of things mundane, out of
the very clay of Life's daily round of laughter and tears, loving and
hating, striving and failing, living and dying--the romance of Peace,
the Tragedy of War--God is still creating men and nations and vivifying
them with souls Immortal. Providence but looks upon the water of the
commonplace, and behold! it becomes wine of Cana!

The recent world war, hallowed by the very purity of motive and
intention with which our American Manhood took up its burden, led us
nationally unto those heights of moral perspective and spiritual vision
known only to him who toils upon the hill of Sacrifice. No Spartan of
Athenian fields, no Regulus of Rome or Nathan Hale, was nobler, higher
motived or less afraid than our own heroic American Doughboy!

Into the shaping and formation of his moral character many forces
entered; and, not least of these, the Military Chaplain. This man--and
every sect and denomination generously gave him--was pre-eminently
God-fearing, thoroughly patriotic, unselfishly charitable, untiringly
zealous, and whole of soul devoted to duty.

Mine was the privileged and sacred duty, as Vicar General of the
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