_Question_. Do any two people in the whole world speak the same language, now? _Answer_. Of course they don't, and this is one of the great evidences that God introduced confusion into the languages. Every error in grammar, every mistake in spelling, every blunder in pronunciation, proves the truth of the Babel story. _Question_. This being so, this miracle is the best attested of all? _Answer_. I suppose it is. _Question_. Do you not think that a confusion of tongues would bring men together instead of separa- ting them? Would not a man unable to converse with his fellow feel weak instead of strong; and would not people whose language had been con- founded cling together for mutual support? _Answer_. According to nature, yes; according to theology, no; and these questions must be answered according to theology. And right here, it may be well enough to state, that in theology the unnatural 377 is the probable, and the impossible is what has always happened. If theology were simply natural, anybody could be a theologian. _Question_. Did God ever make any other special efforts to convert the people, or to reform the world? _Answer_. Yes, he destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with a storm of fire and brimstone. _Question_. Do you suppose it was really brim- stone? _Answer_. Undoubtedly. _Question_. Do you think this brimstone came from the clouds? _Answer_. Let me tell you that you have no right to examine the Bible in the light of what people are pleased to call "science." The natural has nothing to do with the supernatural. Naturally there would be no brimstone in the clouds, but supernaturally there might be. God could make brimstone out of his "omnipotence." We do not know really what brimstone is, and nobody knows exactly how brim- stone is made. As a matter of fact, all the brimstone in the world might have fallen at that time. _Question_. Do you think that Lot's wife was changed into salt? _Answer_. Of course she was. A miracle was per- 378 formed. A few centuries ago, the statue of salt made by changing Lot's wife into that article, was standing. Christian travelers have seen it. _Question_. Why do you think she was changed into salt? _Answer_. For the purpose of keeping the event fresh in the minds of men. _Question_. God having failed to keep people in- nocent in a garden; having failed to govern them outside of a garden; having failed to reform them by water; having failed to produce any good result by a confusion of tongues; having failed to reform them with fire and brimstone, what did he then do? _Answer_. He concluded that he had no time to waste on them all, but that he would have to select one tribe, and turn his entire attention to just a few folks. _Question_. Whom did he select? _Answer_. A man by the name of Abram. _Question_. What kind of man was Abram?