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

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1858

pg 343       this painful disappointment; but the more it felt the lack of 
             direct encouragement from those from whom if felt that it had the 
             most right to expect it, so much more sensible did it feel for the 
             kindness and protection of the glorious Archbishop, which was a 
             sufficient compensation for all the rest.
                  These pages will remain for our successors, and it would not 
             be just for them to be left in ignorance of the appreciations of 
             their predecessors in regard to the men and things that concerned 
             them.  Probably every one, according to his own views and the 
             designs of God, has served, although in different ways, in 
             strengthening and developing the work.
                  On all without exception we invoke blessing from above, and 
             we earnestly beseech the divine Majesty to grant us time and means 
             to prove to all that in sacrificing our existence to the 
             foundation of a work which we thought worthy of the sacrifice, we 
             had no other view but the good of the Church, without any personal 
             considerations, since each one of those that is working for it 
             today may be far away tomorrow.  In the words of the most eloquent