Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 28        projects for his future field of labor, the latter said to him 
             laughingly that he would perhaps be doing better if he took the 
             staff and sack of a beggar and went to friendly houses to collect 
             for Brothers whom he had received into his house without being 
             able to assure them against soon dying of hunger.  God permitted 
             that the words were taken more seriously than they were intended.
                  Having afterwards discussed the matter at their leisure, 
             permission was asked of the Bishop, who, contrary to the 
             anticipations of Mr. Delaune himself, granted him permission to 
             try to make a collection in the East and in Canada for the 
             Brothers of St. Joseph, on condition, however, that one fourth of 
             the proceeds should be applied to the debt on a church built by 
             this zealous missionary at Mount Pleasant.
                  He started at once.  God blessed his devotedness during 
             nearly a year of his charitable expedition, and he sent the 
             Bishop nearly 15000fr., not to speak of some bales of goods and 
             some postulants whom he secured.  These resources were more than 
             enough to keep life in the young community. 
                  By the advice of His Lordship a portion of this sum was