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

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1853

pg 182       the same time going up behind their infirmary for the Sisters that 
             were needed for the work of the college.
                  The grand novitiate of the priests as well as that of the 
             Brothers were evidently full of promise for the future.  St. 
             Mary's Academy and that recently opened in Mishawaka, as well as 
             the postulate at Bertrand, which could scarcely hold half the 
             subjects that asked for the habit of the Society, could leave no 
             doubts on his mind as to the beautiful prospects that had been 
             with reason conceived of America.

                                    2.  F. Sorin Submits

                  Here a new era is about to begin, founded not on the shifting 
             sands of human passions, but on the immolation of those passions, 
             even when all hope seemed to have disappeared of reconciling men 
             so thoroughly convinced of the wrong-doing of the other party.  
             God permitted that, contrary to all the anticipations of the Lake, 
             F. Rector should appear ready to push matter to extremities, 
             carrying the affair even to Rome, if necessary.