Sailors tell us that there is a dead spot in the Caribbean Sea.
It lies midway between Carthagena in Columbia and Kingston,
Jamaica. It is out of the track of steamers and the action of
the great currents going one way and another has left a space of
stagnant water without any real movement at all. Anything that
gets into “the dead spot” is apt to stay there unless driven
out by some big storm, and will simply drift round and round,
gathering sea-grass and barnacles.
Is there not “a dead spot” in the sea of life, a place out of the
currents of earnest activities where souls drift and gather worthless
accretions? (Text.)
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