Of course you can't understand.

You will never stand hammering at the bars, breaking your heart in the dark.

Wasn't that the sort of picture our kindly parson drew for us on Sunday?
It's a pretty theme--the tortures of the damned!" "My dear Piers!" Avery spoke quickly and vehemently.

"Surely you have too much sense to take such a discourse as that seriously! I longed to tell the children not to listen.

It is wicked--wicked--to try to spread spiritual terror in people's hearts, and to call it the teaching of religion.