Leonidas Polk Family Papers

Perhaps the same fair question has occurred to some of you as you have contemplated the circumstances under which you are being addressed this evening -- a Yale alumnus bearing the name of Sherman is invited to speak at the Harvard Club on an occasion honoring a Bishop who was also a Confederate General! While in the last analysis what brought me here is known only to Providence, I wish to go on record as being grateful not only to Providence but also to Mr. John Duncan and to my friend and colleague in the Anglican Society, Mr. James T. Williams, Jr., for this delightful association. I am glad also of this opportunity to state publically that in Long Island we are keenly aware of the high calibre of the contribution which Sewanee has made and is making to our diocesan and community life through the splendid priests who are graduates of her School of Theology and through laymen, leaders in their professions, who proudly bear their degrees from the University of the South.

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