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

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1857

pg 313       refusing to abide by his own promises on the faith of which it had 
             been made.  The schoolhouses of the Brothers and of the Sisters 
             were left in such a miserable state that there was no means of 
             doing good.  The promise of collections and of fairs was kept only 
             during the first year.  The Jesuit Fathers had come to Chicago for 
             the purpose of building a church and a college, thus 
             unintentionally destroying one of the principal objects of the 
             Congregation of Holy Cross when it settled in that city.
                  In all the great difficulties in which the institute of Holy 
             Cross was involved in the United States, divine Providence always 
             came to its aid in a manner so evident that it was impossible not 
             to recognize its intervention.  It is true that in all those 
             critical moments the house always sought help where faith teaches 
             that it is never sought in vain, and thus each new trial made the 
             community more confident and more religious than it was before.
                  God holds the hearts of men in his hand and turns them as he 
             pleases.  The Congregation had a very striking proof of this in 
             those days of panic.