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

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1859

pg 392       repeated to him just the contrary: he imagined that the parish 
             would be glad to retain him and would even prefer him as a secular 
             priest:  Providence allowed that the Bishop should speak in time 
             and that their desire to have the Rev. Mr. Meyer, whose superior 
             talents they had learned to value during about two years, should 
             be encouraged.
                  Mr. Meyer, who had always regretted Chicago, lent a willing 
             ear to the proposition for his return.  It was a way for him to be 
             received back into the Society, and in some months peace reigned 
             and all was moving smoothly in the college and in St. Joseph's 
             parish.  This magnificent parish counted four thousand souls.
                  God grant that in return for all the anxieties caused by this 
             establishment in 1859, peace and harmony may so reign that Heaven 
             will send down blessings proportioned to the needs and the hopes 
             of the Congregation.  Its future has not been dimmed nor its 
             importance lessened in the State of Illinois, especially since a 
             new foundation has been authorized and established in Alton.