The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-03
Comrades Pay Last Tribute To
 Capt. Murphy
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McGinn Delivers sermon.

 lessor of psychology at Notre Dame University, who came from South Bend for the occasion as a tribute to the memory memory of Capt; Murphy, uTp th. %no ar vice. Fr. McGinn was an overseas chaplain, going over with the 38th division with James Murphy, brother transferred to the sisth Infantry of the 79th division. To a Times" rep resentative last night Fr. McGinn said: 'I knew Jerry Murphy well. Don't think for a minute that there is anything I am going to say tomor. row that he doesn't deserve. cannot speak too highly of him.
 Notre Dame University furnished eight chaplains in the late war, the same number that came from there for the Civil war When Secretary Baker asked Fr. Cavanaugh, President lains he could furnish his answer was: The entire faculty The War Department asked for eight men and the vice-president and the heads Of sponded.
 Fr. McGinn's sermon follows:
 The Two Ideals.
 There are two ideals which influ- ence the lives of men. One is the ideal of se1fishness, the other the ideal of service. One calls to pleasure, the other to duty. Christ was one day speaking to a multitude of people.
  lands of a certain rich man brought f farth plenty of fruits and he thought wffs.n himself. saying What shall l do, because I have no room whereto store my fruits,' and he said This will I do, I will pull down my barns and will build greater and unto them will I gather all things that are grown unto and my goods, and :! will say to my soul Thou hast much good laid up for many years. Take thy rest, eat, drink and make cheer But God said to him Thou fool this night do they require thy soul of thee. Of which thou hast provided. So is he that laid up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.'
 Here then is one of the ideals of life, but the end of it is death and disappointment. It is the story of most men who make pleasure or pos sessions the goal in life, busy with accumulation, their days and nights length they feel that they may begin to enjoy the gathered harvest, To. Death, the stern reaper, comes and mows them down. It is the idea of have loved their life and lost it.
 The Other Ideal.
 'The history of human greatness and divine achievement is the history or those who in the words of our Lord have hated their lives and flung them away in order to keep them unto life everlasting. The poets. the patriots, the prophets, the saints and sages, in exchange for immortality?
 Joan of Arc made holocaust on the funeral pyre of Rouen because she needed the Voices! Did she not death? Florence Nightingale, who gave her life unreservedly to service, Did she not find in sacrifice the high est kind of life? Did she not win i'm
 
 cause she flung her life away?
 The Hero of MoIokai.
 tr Damien, with the oil of ordi- nation still fresh on his hands, turn sister to bury himself upon the dismal Ieper island! Going forth in the morning of his promise to wash the sores and pillow the heads of those upon whom corruption was feedine even before they were dead. Did he not win immortality with God and man by finging away his own life. U1hers tii S might tarry and enjoy life un- III Goo called them away, but Damien Tor the love of God and the love of Goos children leaped into the arms of aeath. Damien shut too with his own hand the door of his own tonh And for that service, so long as time and man snail last the world will beat a pdtn 10 hls tomb to kneel beside his ashes. HIS
 The Lesser Heroes.
 
 world, the patient, loyal father, the mother almost divine, the unse1fisb daughters and the noble sons. do they not most truly find their life when they beStow it upon othersp
 It is only short time ago thai the youth of this land were called upon 10 manifest to the world what ideals Of life they held And when the his tory or these times shall have been written, its most glorious chapter will portray the cheerfuIness with which our young men, like Damien. threw their lives away, left home and parents and friends and country like ne did to lay down their lives for the principles that make life worth the living
 The Call to Arms.
 It IS only few short years since the tocSin of war disturbed the peace- ful valleys of this continent The nations of Europe were at each oth- CTS throats. Civilization had gone mad and America with the best in, tentlons in the world could not keep out or the war. For years our peo- pie had walked in the pleasant paths Of peace while other nations were preparing for the conflict by training, study s & and discipline We had grown was raised by the leader of the land as the danger of the situation was universally realized. and America instar<tly became one vast mobiliza-
 
 manhood was summoned into the training camps for the study and dis c1pllne necessary to make good off cers. The vigor and courage and hardihood of America was drafted into a mammoth army. For this, fathers, mothers, sisters and wives willingly gave up their loved sons and brothers and husbands to danger and death.
 Pledges to Future
 Tt was an inspiring spectacle. From cities that sat secure on the hilltopS or nestled in large and comfortable valleys, from broad prairieS and from Americas rolling hills, from the farm and factory and the school, came Americas sturdy young pledges to the future, each one ready to redeem with his life's blood the principles of jus tice and freedom upon which the country was founded, a multitude of happy. young men who made up the most honored citizenry that this world has ever known. Nowhere else in all the world did the fires of patriotism burn more brightly on the altar of frecdoro than in homes from