AUTHOR
Khalil Gibran
BOOK
The Wanderer
There was a Christian bishop in his cathedral
on a stormy day, and an un-Christian woman came
and stood before him, and she said
“I am not a Christian. Is there salvation
for me from hell-fire?”
And the bishop looked upon the woman, and he answered her saying,
“Nay,
there is salvation for those only who are baptized of water and of the spirit.”
And even as he spoke
a bolt from the sky fell with thunder
upon the cathedral
and it was filled with fire.
And the men of the city came running,
and they saved the woman,
but the bishop was consumed,
food of the fire.
