E-text prepared by Tamise Totterdell, Alicia Williams, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24889-h.htm or 24889-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/8/24889/24889-h/24889-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/8/24889/24889-h.zip) THE GREATER LOVE by CHAPLAIN GEORGE T. McCARTHY, U. S. Army [Illustration: CHAPLAIN McCARTHY (Before the Attack at Rembercourt.)] Extension Press Chicago Copyright 1920 by Extension Press CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface 9 I Leave Home--Base Hospital No. 11--Camp Dodge 13 II Camp Mills--St. Stephen's, New York--Enter Army 21 III Camp Merritt--Leviathan--At Sea 36 IV Brest--Ancey-le-Franc 46 V In Billets--Departure for Front 56 VI Puvinelle Sector--Bois le Pretre--Vieville en Haye 83 VII The Greater Love 97 VIII Thiacourt--Aerial Daring 104 IX Rembercourt 122 X Armistice Day--Gorz 141 XI Domremy--Home 148 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Chaplain McCarthy (Before the Attack at Rembercourt) _Frontispiece_ United States Unit No. 2--Blessing of Unit's 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