The Greater Love

ate struggle than ours could have been found at any point. Writing of that day, the o

Before V

with the Second American Army, who launched a fire-eating attack above Vigneulles just at dawn on the 11th. It was no mild thing, that last flare of the

een hearing various rumors that the enemy was frantically suing for peace; all these we had

lves as to utterly destroy their morale. Once the soldiers themselves realized the weakness of the tottering dynasty

nd I felt that the course they were pursuing woul

anion and comfort to my trying hours. Fervently I implored her, who is "Mightier than an army in battle array," to inter

e falling off in firing. Battery after batte

and it seemed these two words leaped into the

oment, to have lost your footing on some storm-swept hill, and fallen headlong into a deep valley. There was no cheering. The boys simply looked at each other and waited; waited like

lmets were tossed into the air, rifles were stacked, and imp

was strictly forbidden; but all over the

the big idea?" "Has Jerry quit for good?" "How do you get

ravine; it was the Regimental band of the 7th Engi

st upon our unaccustomed ears with something, at least, of the joy the

Headquarters, two companies from a Pioneer Infantry Regiment were assigned to us, co-ordinating with our regular Burial Details. Near and far we combed hills an

Galilean Sea was tempest tossed. Then in the boat rose the Master who said to the storm, "Peace! Be still! And there came a great calm." E

e of the mental breadth and generous nature marking the real American b

Man's Land that old men, women and children in the town of Gorz, acros

cupying, and, as the time for moving forward with the Army of Occupation was indefin

y provision having been made for such emergency. With little difficulty five to

ields. Clothing, helmets, small arms of all description, whole batteries of Howitzers still in position, dense black fumes from burning ammunition dum

ed and feeble men and women looked sadly at us from their doors. Children, whose pinched faces

e Than This

Drawing up in front of the old market place, Major Hirch

ounds; the children shouted with very joy and swarmed up into the trucks. We found ourse

when the children saw the Chaplain's cross and found I was

l, it was relished most keenly. We felt gratified in the humble part we had played in saving the lives