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Wherefore, it is good for us to be here. The praise of famous men and our fathers that begat us can be a most valuable enhancement to Christian eduction, the living drama in which the flame of faith is communicated from mind to mind, from heart to heart, and from soul to soul. The problem of higher education in America today is primarily not one of high finance but of high faith. The need of the hour is for men of the faith of Leonidas Polk. To meet this need is the high calling of the University of the South. And as long as there are those who teach and those who learn on the mountain-top at Sewanee, the name of Leonidas Polk will be remembered among those choice vessels of God's grace, the lights of the world in their several generations, for whom the Church will ever yield to Almighty God most high praise and most hearty thanks.

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