Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-30
VISITS CARLISLE,
|. MOTHERS EARLY
. KOME IN ENGLAND
Addresses Congregation OH
Sense of Duty Learned
From Her.
SEEMINGLY GREATLY MOVED
BY INVITATION TO SPEAK
Sits in Chair Once Used by
Rev. Thomas Wood->
row.
PROCEEDS TO MANCHESTER
/ Crowds Greet Him on Arrival ut
Great on-Manifactur-
/ ing City.
Crowds Greet Him on Arrival ut
Great Cotton -ManufaCtur-
ing City.
.TEv Assorlntcd prn.s.l

CARLISLE, ENGLAND, December 20
-AfresiGcnt wilson. accompanied by
| Mrs. Wilson. came to Carlisle to-day
in rain and cold. penetrating mis-, TO
visit the girlhood home of his mother
But the warmth of the greeting Of
the pcop!c OF the town and of the
| thousands OF STRANGERS from the sur
rounding country more than Offset the
drearincss OF the weather Large
crowds lined the streets and cheered
the presidential party Justify as 1t
drove from the station. where the,
president VAS received by Mayor Bcr-
tram Carr and local notables. to the
Crown and Mitre Hotel. where the
President signed the freeman's roll.
The President visited Annetweli
Street. where the site Of his late grand
fathers chapel was pointed out to him
and the house in Cavent;lSh Place that
was built by his grandfather. Later,
he attended service in tho Lowther
the services Rev. Edward Booth, pas
tor requested the President TO come
int into the pulpit pi and address the as.
touched stmpiy.. but elo0uently.~ on his
lows: rs,
Il, s with unaffected reluctance that
inject myself into this service re-.
member my grandfather very we'll. and /.
remembering him. can see how he
would not approve ! remember whar
stern lessons of duty he spoke And
| remember painfully about things he
expected me to know that | did noe
know
There has come n change of times
when iaymcn like myself arc permitted
to ,h Spen6 in c%0ngrGgation; % There
to speak $3.50
MENIOHIES OF HIS MOTHER
ARE VERY AFFECTING 4
The feelings excited in me to-day
a rAs M In lima Nt, .snh tnf n
to permit of public expression. The
memories that have come Of the
mother who vas born here are very
affecting Her quiet character, her
sense of duty and her dislike Of os-sr
tentatton have come back to me with
;;nSreasinS iorce as these years OF duty
appropriate that in a place OF worship
should aeknowledse my Indebtedness
cause after all: what the world now
is seeking 10 do is to return to tile
paths OF duty. to turn from, the saw
aSery of interests to the dignity Of
the performance of right.
4 believe as this war has drawn
nn,n9ns temporarliy together in a com.
now he drawn together in Il comhina-
tion of moral force that is Irresistible
u u Is moral nora force as much as physicaI
| subdue the world Words have cut as .
deep as swords
The knowledge that wrong has been
Ihcy have gone out like men for IN
crusade. No other cause could have
graWn rr,Tnr SO ,rnni many Of the nations to-
abroad and that the outlaw purposed
unspeakable things. =
MEAN no PLACE CONSCIENCE
Oh WORLD ON THRONE
1T is from quiet places like this
all over the world that the forces are
accumulated that presently viii over
power any attempt to accomplish evil
ron l1., II s.-l
hat gathers into the rivers aud the
river ihat goes to the sea So there
comes out of communities like these
streams that f5rtilize the conscience of
men, and 1t is the conscience of tho
world w" now mean to place upun rho :,
throhc rome which others tried to usurp."
carried out with the single cxception +
that the President had not Intended
dsu% i'H train 'nf nrrive% %h%reh At The preg
St9tl ION on schedule time
n,aHoress IN raa'9n 9Ist 10 Mayor Carr the lpdy
General Sir John Cowan and the i'pr h'gh
Snnorin nrei were on the platform when
care res'dant hfisr M,son Ea algh,sa from his
gave Mrs. Wilson huge bo,ioli.t
ane pre- s!dential party was then cor
where the IL a na,are srsF"Yss Was 1h lme sali1
people. who burst into iiearty theer,
n me stars and Stripes and the British
nag were hoistcd on the tower OF fh,s
Law Courts. - '"S
SHAKES HAND or HIS
GRANDF.ATHER'S PUpiI
ra dhG rain continued to fail. but the
CROWDS IN the streets checred Prcs;
"tnt NILSSON all the way 10 the Crown,
and Mitre Hotel where other promi, ,E
neht citizens were waiting to rccaive
the noted guest. Here Thomas Watson
an aged house painter and the last IIy
ing pupil OF the school OF President WI,
son Srandtather. was introduced Ia
me freS!dcnL Grasping the old mans
hand; tho President asked You r..
member my grandfather?" ~ t{
M AFRAID not. [ was rather a smalf q
tcItow replied the old man, shyiv,' - III
Irestdent Wilson Inspected doc,,-
ments ealing with the residence here.
or MIS- grandfather. Rev. Mr. Thomas
W oodrow. and then drove TO tho SAL
Vatioa Army hall, where once staod
the hui.d!ng tha, was the Presidenf.s
mothers home Then he visited CIV s. {
nndiSh On S.s House in Warwick Road. baiiilt
Eranutaifer Taught school and whGraS
tho Presidents mother also Iive,l for s8
while Tho Prcsident remained bcgs X
70 ten minutes. and proceeded 10 .tj,esEI
,,IW ,9Wtner street CongregatloEal Church, @s
The congregation rose az the I,rssIsl=4T
"a tNt - ~, 49,. "a.