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

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1858

pg 337       hard labor of fifteen years.  That is to say, the united efforts 
             of five and six missioners in their best years did not gather what 
             a single priest can reap in many places in this country without 
             every going out of the limits of his parish.
                  This, we think, is answer enough to No. 2.
                  No. 3 is a double accusation.  The college and the Sisters 
             have taken up too much of our time, it is said.  
                  If by this is meant that, besides the society of Brothers, 
             for which, principally, we had been called, we also did what was 
             not asked of us, namely, put up a college and established Sisters, 
             we grant it; but we cannot see that in this we were wrong, not 
             even when we take the good of the Brothers into consideration; for 
             we have already seen that they gained by the establishment of the 
             other two branches, which took an equal interest in them as in 
             their own members, and which have in fact procured them their best 
             vocations.
                  The question here is certainly not one of strict justice, 
             since it is well known that we came to the United States at our 
             own cost, and that the diocese never made us any other advance