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

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1858

pg 339       successors.  And if there is no reason to boast, neither is there 
             cause to despair of a house which is growing year by year, and 
             which has at present one hundred and fifty boarders, whilst it 
             enjoys the confidence of the public.
                  Even were it true that Sisters can be easily found 
             everywhere, it would not follow that ours are superfluous nor that 
             our sacrifices to establish them were a mistake.  We are on the 
             contrary happy to see them established and doing good in their 
             sphere of action.  We could not regret our sacrifices of time and 
             money unless they had interfered with the success of the Brothers 
             or with anything of more importance.  Now this did not occur, and 
             if at this day, after fifteen years of painful labors, there is 
             anything to console us, it is to see that Providence has given us 
             the means to keep the three Societies which had been confided to 
             us marching side by side; and if the crisis through which the 
             country is passing leaves us on our feet, we will see in this a 
             new proof that, even when all human aid is lacking, the arm of the 
             Almighty protects us, and more lovingly than ever we will say:  In