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lifetime in the ears and hearts of those who heart it!

Polk is said to have been the first cadet ever to kneel down during chapel services at West Point. His conversation was the signal for a dramatic revival of religion which swept the whole institution. When it was known that this dashing and handsome cadet, a leader among his fellows, had dared to declare for Christ, others who had, perhaps, been too timid to speak out before, no longer lacked the courage to come forward, and conversion followed conversion until it seemed that the entire corps had been touched. Leonidas Polk's career as a soldier of Christ and as a pioneer of the Gospel was settled at West Point. Before graduation, he announced hhis intention of resigning from the army in order to enter the ministry of the Church.

The atmosphere of the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1828 was strongly Evangelical and missionary, but with the formal teaching of the classroom Polk was not greatly impressed. In