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.