Man, Not The Lord, Responsible For Mud

At a prayer meeting held in the First Methodist church in Portland, Ore., recently a lady ejcpreased her inability to see why certain things were thus and so, and was eepeoially severe upon Providence for inflicting so much mud upon mankind. Said she: "No matter how much 1 niay clean, iny house 13 continually tracked withmud; my porchea are kept in a filtliy condition, and it's uotliing but mud, mud, mud." When the speaker Htiished the pastor arose and remarked: "I cannot conclude thia meeting without saying that God Í8 not responsible for the mud; in f act, if thcre were no men there would be no mud. Moreover, in Portland, Ore., where it rains about six months in the year, there is no mud, for the simple reason that they have men there who know enough to make