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arranged to move his family from their home near Columbia, Tennessee, together with four hundred or more Negro slaves, to Louisiana to a large sugar plantation which they named "Leighton," near Thibodaux.

Louisiana at this time offered a four-fold challenge to the Episcopal Church. There was need for divine services in English to be made available in part of the country which had known only those in Latin. Parishes must be established among those settlers who had been Episcopalians before their migration to Louisiana. Others, who were as yet unchurched, must be brought into the Church. And a ministry to the Negro population would have to be instituted. How zealously and how successfully Bishop Polk labored to accomplish these objectives was demonstrated nearly twenty years later when, in his address to the diocesan convention in 1860, he was able to report that the number of clergy had increased from 6 to 32; that congregations in union with the Diocesan Council had increased from 3 to 40, those not in union from 1 to 6; and that in