n States comprising the Great Lakes Vicariate, of knowing
intimately and directing the splendid work of these heroic soldiers of
the Cross. The inspiration I drew, both from these priests and from
contact with their work and written reports, whether in cantonments,
camps, hospitals, transports, battleships, or on the flaming front of
the battlefields, I shall ever treasure and recount with pride.

Archbishop Hayes, appointed by the Holy Father "Chaplain Bishop" in
charge of all priests in Military Service, and who conducted the vast
responsibilities of that most important work with such eminent success,
has declared our Chaplains to be "the Flower of the American
Priesthood." One of such is Father McCarthy, Author of this book "The
Greater Love." The same zeal that prompted him to follow the boys in
Khaki and Blue Over There--making himself one with them in hardship,
danger and wounds for the sake of their immortal souls, now impels him
to the writing of this Book. "The Greater Love" is a religious message
which teaches that as man needed God in war--with a crescendo of need
reaching full tide in the front trench--even so he needs him in Peace.
The message is clothed in the narrative of adventure--personal
experiences of the Author--and every page an epic of absorbing interest.
No one is better qualified to bring us message from Over There.

RT. REV. MSGR. WM. M. FOLEY, V. G.

"THE GREATER LOVE" BY GEORGE T. MCCARTHY, Chaplain, U. S. Army

CHAPTER I

LEAVE HOME--BASE HOSPITAL NO. 11--CAMP DODGE

"Very well then, Father, you have my permission and best wishes."

How the approving words and blessing of good Archbishop Mundelein
thrilled me that memorable morning in 1918. The rain-washed freshness of
April was abroad in Cass street; and the soft breeze, swaying the
curtain of the Chancery window where he was seated, brought incense of
budding tree and garden.

Patiently he had listened, while I presented my reasons for wishing to
become a war Chaplain. How, obedient to that call to National Service
which is

"The pride of each patriot's devotion,"

millions of our boys were exchanging the shelter of home and parish
influence for the privation and danger of camp and ship and battlefield.

To accompany them, to encourage them, to administer to their spiritual
and moral needs, to fortify their last heroic hours with "Sacramenta
propter homines," here was a Christl