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

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1858

pg 328            The Brothers' institute undertaken alone would probably have 
             been a complete failure.  It would not have been able to support 
             itself and would not have developed.  Far from losing any of its 
             chances of success, therefore, from its union with the other 
             branches which were added to it here, as well as in France, it has 
             therein a new element of life for itself.  It is in this union of 
             the three branches that we find the cause of the development of 
             each, every member being equally interested in the welfare of the 
             three societies.
                  If the number of foundations is not greater, what we have 
             just written ought rather to show the protection of heaven over 
             what has been done and the better founded hopes of doing still 
             more before long, since in only two years the society of the 
             Brothers has almost doubled itself, and the novitiate is now 
             better filled than it ever was.
                  The first thing to be though of was to live, that is to say, 
             to create means of subsistence for the subjects and for the 
             novitiate.  Up to the present time the schools have made a very 
             poor showing in the column of the receipts of the community.  It