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in Christian biography, is there a finer demonstration of the faith described by St. Paul in the Eighth Chapter of Romans: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

As I have already suggested, Bishop Polk's interest in higher education had undergone a lengthy process of development. Even before he began to study for Holy Orders he had felt the disadvapntage of the exclusively scientific education he had received at West Point. He fully recognized the necessity of giving a special direction to the course of study to be pursued by men intended for a particular profession; but he was firm in the conviction that the professional man ought always to have a liberal education, and he thought that every gentleman ought to have at least so much acquaintance with every branch of human knowledge as to be capable of intelligent sympathy with the pursuits and thoughts of other educated men of any profession. He observed, too, that the isolation