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 CHAPTER XXII.

The Lord "Creating" More than he Knew of—The Living Organisms in Thames Water Praising the Lord—Jehovah "Created" Worlds without Knowing it—We "Created" God—Jehovah has Served his Purpose and Become Obsolete—A Roll of Dead Gods.

I, O Lord, drawn your attention to the fact that, when you did, in the fulness of time, take to "creating" you "created" a good deal more than you were aware of. I have ventured to bring it under your notice that you "created" America, and that, when your son and the devil went to the top of the high mountain to survey all the kingdoms of the earth, neither of them seems to have had any notion that the earth was round, and that it was of such prodigious dimensions. Neither your son nor the devil knew of America. I am not quite sure that your son knows of it yet; but I could produce some proofs that the devil knows of it full well.

Without going as far as America, may I suggest to you that, at my very door, there are countless trillions of creatures that you, judging from your Book, do not seem to know you "created"? O Lord, you know the Thames? From the banks of that river you have had several shaky saints, including Charles Peace, Esq. If you wish to know some particulars about the Thames, ask them.

Well, in the Thames there is water. May I remind you what water is? You will remember what it is when I recall it to your recollection that you once drowned the world with it. What I wish to bring under your notice is the fact that a cubic centimetre of Thames water has been found to contain upwards of 4,000,000 of living organisms! In your Book you speak of cubits,