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

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1880

pg 507       by heart, or rather took it to my heart long since.  God alone 
             knows how well it has served me.
                  Hence I repeat without a particle of shame, but with a 
             readiness equalled only by an absolute conviction, that if there 
             is anything praiseworthy in the rapid growth of the mustard seed 
             brought over from the old world and planted by us in this new one, 
             it is to the abundant dew, the incessant and ever increasing 
             blessing from above that it is due.  Non nobis Domine, non nobis, 
             sed nomini tuo da gloriam.
                  Our share in what the world may perhaps admire, what is it?  
             Simply and honestly, to have checked and opposed the workings of 
             divine grace instead of cooperating faithfully with it.  Ah!  if 
             we had all and every one of us duly responded to the advances of 
             the divine Master, what glorious results would new rejoice the 
             guardian angels of this New World!  But alas!  the more forcibly 
             we feel obliged to confess our infidelities, the more evidently do 
             we prove that what little good has been done must be wholly