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

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1858

pg 325       not include their first foundation in Louisiana, which has just 
             been made into a separate Province, and which would considerably 
             increase the above figures. )  We know several communities of the 
             same kind in the United States for which we feel great esteem, but 
             we do not know that any of them has better succeeded in those 
             respects.  (We do not here speak of the Brothers of the Christians 
             Schools, who belong to Canada and who from the beginning found 
             resources there which are not at our command.)
                  Would it not be somewhat more just to acknowledge that the 
             clergy in general have taken but little interest in the matter of 
             vocations, and just as little in the means of making them useful 
             after they have been secured?  We remember that the good Bishop of 
             Vincennes himself would have only one Brother, and could provide 
             him with no other refectory but his kitchen amongst the servant 
             girls; and as for the school, it was a miserable little cabin in 
             which it was a mockery to attempt teaching.  And yet such were the