just as well made it out of His memory.
What is omnipotence? Is it a raw material? The weakest man in the
world can lift as much nothing as God. Yet He made this world out of
His omnipotence. It is so stated by a doctor of divinity, and I should
think such divinity would need a doctor! I don't believe this. I
believe this universe has existed throughout all eternity--everything.
All that is, is God. I do not give to that universe a personality that
wants man to get his knees into dust and his fingers in holy water;
that wants some body to ring a bell or eat a wafer. I am a part of
this universe, and I believe all there is, is all the God there is. I
may be mistaken; I don't know. I just give my best opinion. If
there's any heaven, I'll give it there. But there'll be no discussion
in heaven. Hell is the only place where mental improvement will be
possible.

I have said, it is charged, that the bible says the world was made in
six days. He says I don't understand Hebrew. The bible says the world
was made in six days. God didn't work nights--evening and morning were
the first day. God rested on the seventh day, and sanctified it.
That, they say, didn't mean days; it meant good whiles. He made the
world in six good whiles. Adam was made, I think along about Saturday.
If the account is correct, it's only 6,000 years since man made his
appearance. We know that to be false. A few years ago a gentleman who
was going to California in the cars met a minister. They came to the
place called the Sink of the Humboldt, the most desolate place in the
world. Just imagine perdition with the fire out. The traveler asked
the minister whether God made the earth in six days, and the minister
said he did. Then don't you think, said he, He could have put in
another day's work to great advantage right here? I am charged, too,
with saying that the sun was not made till the fourth day, whereas,
according to the bible, vegetation began on the third day, before there
was any light. But Mr. Talmage says there was light without the sun.
They got light, he says, from the crystallization of rocks. A nice
thing to raise a crop of corn by. There may have been volcanoes, he
says. How'd you like to farm it, and depend on volcanic glare to raise
a crop? That's what they call religious science. God won't damn a man
for things like that. What else? The aurora borealis! A great
cucumber country! It's strange He never thought of