The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-12-30
PRESIDENT WILSON
SPENT SUNDAY
At the Homo Of His Maternal
Grandmother at Carlisle,
England
SPOKE IN THE CHURCH

President Wilson, accompanied BY
Mrs. Wilson, came to Carlisle yes
terday in rain and cold penetrat-
ing mist to visit the girlhood home
of his mother. But the warmth OF
the greeting Of the people Of the
town and of the thousands Of stran-
gers from the surrounding country
more than offset the dreariness OF
the weather. Large crowds lined
the streets and cheered the Presi-
dental party Justify as it drove
from the station, where the Presi-
dent was received by Mayor Ber-
tram Carr and local notables, the
Crown and Mitre Htel, where the
President signed the Freeman's
role.
The President visited Annetwell
street, where the site of his late
frandfather's chapel was pointed
out to him and the house in Caven-
dish Place that was built by his
grandfather. Later he attended
service in the Lowther Street Con-
gregational church. During the
services the Rev. Edward Booth,
pastor, requested the President to
come into the pulpit and address
the assemblage. This the President
did, delivering Il short speech, in
which he touched simply but elo-
quently on his mother.
The President spoke as follows:
1T is with unaffected reluctance
that I inject myself into this SER
vice. I remember my grandfather
very we'll, and remembering him,
can see how he would not approve.
remember what he required Of me
and remember the stern lessons OF
duty he spoke. And I remember
painfully about things he expected
me to know that I did not know.
"There has come change Of
times when laymen like myself are
permitted to speak in congrega
tion. There is another reason why
was reluctant to speak.
"The feelings excited in me to-
day are really too intimate and tot
deep to permit of public expression
The memories that have come of thu
mother who was born here are yer!
affecting. Her quiet character, thu
sense of duty and his dislike of os
tentation have come back to mi
with increasing force as these year
duty have accumulated. Yes
perhaps, 1t is appropriate that In
place of worship should acknoWl
edge my indebtedness to her ant
her remarkable father, because, at
. ter all what the world now is seek
ing to do is to return to the path
Of duty, to turn from the savager'
interests to the dignity of tn
perfrmance Of right.
, "I believe as this war has draw
nations temporarily together in
combination in moral force is ire
sistable. 1t is moral force as niue
, as physical force that has defeate'
the effort to subd1e the world
Words have=eut=a deep asHwBfdf
"The knowledge that wrong ha
been attempted has aroused the na
tions. They have gone out lik
men for a crusade. No other caus
could have drawn so many OF tn
: nations together. They knew a!
e outlaw was abroad and that the ou1
il law purposed dnspeakables things. !
II at is from d6ict places like thi
1t all over the world that the force
d are accumulated that presently wi
: overpower any attempt to- accom-
= plish evil on a great scale. 1t
It like the elrivulet that gathers int
s. liver that goes to the sea. So ther
D. comes out of communities like thos
Streams that 'fertilize the consclent
of men, and 1t is the conscience I
1.-The world we now mean to place vi
a HIN the throne which others tried
4 lInsurp Wmgsq natnefa 1ai sGsii I
1t The lengthy program OF the da
II lwas carried out with the single @
IL lIception chat the President had NJ
&, Iintended to speak In the churc
o. The Presidential train arrived
p SitadeI station on schedule time.
le In addition , ito Mayo Carr, Il
ID liady mayoress, Miss Eleanor Car
is lMajor General Sir John, Cowann al
ts lthe high sheriff were On the pis
al tbrmo when President lwflsons aligf
Continued on dhasta arsss,en.