Did you hear about the dad who was about to rush into a burning building to save his 3 year old but police kept tazering him and made him watch the house burn his baby up? Sick and sad.
Adrian Rogers discussed a similar story. The man died two years later of a broken heart:
[Brightest In The Dark edited notes Adrian Rogers sermon] "May 18, 1923 in South Carolina, USA. There was a terrible fire in a school house, 70 children were burned to death. The people in South Carolina community came to stand around that school house to do what they could do, the raging inferno was such that they could not get in there to rescue the children from that terrible holocaust.
There was a father who came there and looked in through the window and he could see his son on the flames, the son recognize the dad, and the dad recognize the son and the boy said to his daddy, "Daddy! Daddy! Save me daddy, save me! And the dad begun to go into the flames and the strong men held him back, there was no way, it was totally impossible to save his son, it was too late. The little boy saw what was happening and began to cry and said, "Daddy, can't you save me? Daddy, Daddy save me!" And that father watched his son wither like a flower with a settling torch turned on him.
Night and day after that, that father, could see with his eyes his son in those flames. He could hear in his ears the pitiful cry of his son, "Daddy, can't you save me, Daddy can't save me?"
He lived about two years after that, he died prematurely because he died of such an anguish of heart and soul. This world is in a perishing state, this world looks at science, this world says to science, science can't you save me? And science says, no I can't save you, I can tell you how far is the earth from the sun But I cannot tell you how to remove sin from your heart, I can't save you. The world looks at philosophy, and the world says, philosophy, can't you save me? And philosophy says, I can't save you, I can tell you more more about less and less, and you know everything about very little but I can't save you. The world looks at education, and says, education, can't you save me? I can make you smart but I can't make you wise, I can't save you. The world looks to culture and the world says, culture, can't you save me? Culture says all I can do is to make the world a better place to go to hell from. There is only one who can save and He is mighty to save and His name is Jesus, He is the light of the world.
In your home, you've tried everything, you need Jesus. In your life, you've tried everything, you've tried religion, you've tried church membership, you've tried turning over a new leaf but you have never ever bowed on the feet of Jesus, you've truly never received Christ in your heart. Jesus alone is the answer to your heart hunger, Jesus Christ who saved me when I was a teen age boy is the Jesus who wants to save you, and He will save you today if you trust Him. The Light of the world is Jesus and He is Light for you in your darkness."
Brightest In The Dark 
each: I have no idea what the man may have believed. 
