GEOGRAPHY'S ROLE IN CHRISTIANITY

I GOODWIN S WEEKLY n vM j iOM OF 7iE CHRISTIANS 1 I By VINCENT McNABB S 11 OiMEono lately asked. If Christian lty was really the product of a 1 I horizontal limestone formation J ji 1 When. I stood for the first time on the winterhued spurs of the Alban hills and looked westward to the nar 1 r row horizon that was the Mediter jf h ranean Rome itself suddenly revealed. I to mo its indebtedness to geography.

As far as the eye could carry Into r f the West there stretched an unbroken U I fonland. What seemed the one soli jj tary mound in this dun place stood up if jl a little above the dominant weary nj level as the hill crowned with Hugh U ft of Avalons Minister stands shoulder 11 high above the fenland of Lincoln 1 1 1 The little mound picked out here and ll l there as with spikes of gray grass. I I and dunhued fungi. I knew to bo the 1 City of the Seven Hills crowned with f slender campaniles and the shadows of many domes.

When I first saw it from the fire fly twisted.