I had been talking a great deal to him of the power of God, His omnipotence, His aversion to sin, His being a consuming fire to the workers of iniquity; how, as He had made us all, He could destroy us and all the world in a moment; and he listened with great seriousness to me all the while. After this I had been telling him how the devil was God’s enemy in the hearts of men, and used all his malice and skill to defeat the good designs of Providence, and to ruin the kingdom of Christ in the world, and the like.
Una vez, la pobre criatura me dejó tan perplejo con una pregunta, totalmente inocente e ingenua, que apenas supe qué contestar. Había estado hablándole largamente del poder de Dios, de su omnipotencia, del modo tan espantoso en que castigaba el pecado, del fuego devorador que aguardaba a los agentes de la iniquidad, de cómo nos había creado a todos y de cómo podía destruirnos a nosotros y al mundo entero en un instante.