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172 ToIL AND TRoUBLE
Xaverian Brothers owned in Bruges, Manchester' and
Louisville was in Brother Ryken's name and in the event
of his death he assigned everything to Brother Vincent
Terhoeven, Superioi of the Brothers in Manchester'
England.
5ne result of the Founder's stay in the Clinic at
Courtrai was his conversion to some stringent health-
ideas. On March 12, 1858, he informed Dr' Van der
Plancke: "Since my return from Courtrai I feel fine'
I can testify that I have used the \'Yater-treatment with
good results. The drinking of beer and coffee has totally
itopped in our communit!, thanks be to God and your
energetic cooperation"'
Tf,e e[minition of beer and coffee was not all' World
economics had dug deeper than dietary wisdom' The
failure of the banls in-the United States, the wobbly
Bank of England., the uneasy Bourse in-Paris-all com-
bined to ploduce repercussions in Belgium' Brother
Ryken put^ his community on short rations' Meat was
eliminaied from the bill of fare.
"There was no complaining," according m Brother
Felix Kerckhof, one of ihose present. "All acquiesced in
the inevitable."
With no smoking and no beer and no meat, morale
knew no supPort, and eventually there was trouble but
that is another story,
From Brother Ryken's point of view Louisville was
a sore spot in his management of the Congregatio"' Y'
decided to recall the four members of the communlty
and to replace them with Brothers Stanislaus and l-oseph
from Manchester alons with Brothers Hubert and Ber-
-Brother
nardine from Bruges, Stanislaus would be the
new Superior. In inswer to his summons Brothers Paul
and Peier arrived in Bruges on June 23, 1858' Brothers
Francis and Stephen were to close the mission and fol-