在一个大雷雨的日子里，有个基督教的主教在他的大教堂里。来了一个并非基督徒的女人，站在他的面前，问道："我不是基督徒。我能否得救，免受地狱之火的烧灼？"主教瞧瞧那女人，答复她道："不，只有那些受过圣水和圣灵的施洗礼的人们，才能得到拯救。"
就在主教说话的刹那之间，一个霹雳从天上轰隆打将下来，打在大教堂上，大教堂里到处烈火熊熊。
城里的人们纷纷跑来了，他们救出了那个女人，而主教却被大火吞灭，化为灰烬了。
The Lightning Flash
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.