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er, you have my permi

in 1918. The rain-washed freshness of April was abroad in Cass street; and the soft breeze, swaying

easons for wishing to become a war Chaplain. How,

each patriot

er of home and parish influence for the privat

needs, to fortify their last heroic hours with "Sacramenta propter homines," here

which had already made Chicago's Archbishop a foremost National Champion. It was but yesterday that the Secretary of the Unite

e I read approval even before hear

during your absence. You will receive, through Father Foley's office, letters dul

d Doctor Noble, in the various patriotic rallies and drives. Father Shannon of the "New World" thought so highly of our city's efforts as to visit us and eloquently say so at a mons

ation some months before, and had been meanwhile seasoni

undered. Then, too, the school children, how one grows to love them, especially when you have given them their first Sacraments, and even joined in wedlock their parents before them. Of course for the priest who, more perhaps than

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the following morning at the depot, was keenly painful-a grief, howe

e Tragedy of tears and the Comedy of laughter, than any stage dedicated to Drama. There, life was most real and intense. The prosaic words "All Aboard" seemed to set in motion a final wave of feeling that surged beyond all barriers of the convention

owing morning and subsequent meeting with the officers and enlisted men of Base Hospita

Lewis, Shroeder, and others, became at once an inspiration and pleasure. Most of these gentlemen had been associated with either St. Mary of Nazareth or Augustana Hospitals, Chicago; and had patriotically relinquished lucrative practices to serve their country

n, McCranahan and the two Tobins of the famous Paulist choir were there, and what wealth of vocal melody they represented! Talbot, Bunte, and L

as a vast school, pulsating with martial throb. Hundreds of the brain and brawn of the far-flung

ssing of Unit's Colo

nd while the process of making was invariably laborious and often discouraging, it usual

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