a boy bathing on the opposite Nile bank, whom a crocodile had dragged down....

and that scream, faint and distant as it came across the mighty tide, had rung intolerable in his ears for days....

and to think of all which echoed through those vaults of fire-for ever! Was the thought bearable!--was it possible! Millions upon millions burning forever for Adam's fall ....

Could God be just in that ?....
It was the temptation of a fiend! He had entered the unhallowed precincts, where devils still lingered about their ancient shrines; he had let his eyes devour the abominations of the heathen, and given place to the devil.

He would flee home to confess it all to his father.