Geologists say that the Bay of Naples is in reality the crater
of an extinct volcano. In the cycles of ages past it was a
great, deep, roaring pit of fire and burning lava. The fires
subsided and the lava ceased to flow. The great sea overflowed
it and now the calm waters smile back in sunshine by day and in
starlight at evening. Christianity is a great calm sea that is
gradually quenching and covering the old volcanoes and roaring
pits of barbarism. (Text.)
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