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

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1853

pg 185       Reze, with all the privileges of his house withdrawn; to return 
             then to the Lake by obedience after three months, there to drink 
             to the dregs the chalice of humiliation that awaited him; to seek 
             in future only the merit of blind obedience, even if the ruin of 
             the house were to follow--such were the dispositions that were to 
             succeed the sacrifice made by F. Sorin of all his vanity and all 
             his pride.  Whether through self love or a more noble motive, he 
             would no have wished that in anything this sacrifice should be 
             incomplete.
                  On his return to the United States in the beginning of 
             February, F. Sorin's first care was to carry out all the 
             prescriptions of the V.R.F. Rector, however severe they were, and 
             to conform his views in all things, having no other desire than 
             that of repairing his errors by a religious and irreproachable 
             life.  God did not abandon him in this trial, and soon, in the joy 
             and the peace that filled his soul, he could say with the prophet: 
             Bonum mihi quia humiliasti me Domine.
                  There is nothing more deceptive than the human heart.  Amid 
             ordinary temptations F. Sorin would not have been able to answer 
             for himself; but when the circumstances are called to mind in