Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-12-30
Sees Carlisle In Rain-Visits Buildings
of Peculiar Interest to Him Speaks
From Pulpit where His Grandfather
Preached Pays Tender Tribute To
Ancestors Receives Hearty We'll
come From Townsfolk.
(By the Associated Press.)

CARLISLE, England, Dec. 29.-Pres-
ldent Wilson, accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson, came to Carlisle today in rain
and cold, penetrating mist, to visit
the girlhood home of his mother But
the warmth of the greeting of the peo-
pie of the town and of the thousands
of strangers from the surrounding
country more than offset the dreariness
of the weather. Large crowds lined the
streets and cheered the presidential
party Justify as it drove from the sta
tion, where the president was received
by Mayor Bertram Carr and local not
ables, to the Crown and Mitre hotel,
where the president signed the Free
mans Roll.
The president visited Annetwell
street, wherethe site of his late grand
fathers chapel was pointed out to him.
and the house in Cavendish place that
was built by his grandfather Later
he attended services in the Lowther
Street congregational church. Here
during the services, the Rev. Edward
Booth, pastor of the church, requested
the president to come into the pulpit
and address the assemblage. This the
president did, delivering a short speech
in which he touched simply, but elo-
quently, on his mother. The president
spoke as follows:
Speaks from Pulpit
1T is with unaffected reluctance
that ! inject myself into this service.
remember my grandfather very well.
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
| remember painfully about things he
expected me to know that | did not
know.
There has come a change of times
when laymen like myself are permitted
to speak in a congregation. There is
another reason why | am reluctant to
speak.
THE feelings excited in me TO-DAY
are really too intimate and too deer
to permit of public expression. The
memories that have come of the moth
er who was born here are very affect
ing. Her quiet character, her sense OF
duty and her dislike of ostentatior
have come back to me with increasing
force, as these years of duty have ac-
cumulated. Yet, perhaps, it is appro-
pirate that, in a place of worship,
should acknowledge my Indebtedness.
to her and her remarkable father be
cause, after all. what the world now i.
seeking to do is to return to the path:
of duty, to turn from the savagery O.
! interests to the dignity of the per.
formance of right
War Draws Us Together
Il believe, as this war has draw,
nations temporarily together in a com
bination of physical force, we shal
/ now be drawn together in a combina
ton of moral force that is irresistible
1t is a moral force, as much as physica
| force, that has defeated the effort Il
subdue the world. Words have cut a
| deep as swords
THE knowledge that wrong has bee
attempted has aroused the nations
They have gone out like men for a cru
sade. No other cause could hav
drawn so many of the nations together
They knew an outlaw was abroad an
that the outlaw purposed unspeakabl
things.
1t is from the quiet places like thi
all over the world that the forces ar
| accumulated that presently will over
power any attempt to accomplish ev
on great scale. 1t is like the rivule
thatgathers into the river, and tn
river that goes to the sea So ther
comes out Of communities like thes
streams that fertilize the conscience
of men, and it is the conscience of tn
world We now mean to place upon tn
throne which others tried to usurp."
Program Is Lengthy
The lengthy program of the day We
carried out with the single exceptic
that the president had not intended
speak in the church. The PRESIDENT
train arrived at the Citadel station {
schedule time. In addition to May,
Carr. the lady mayoress, Miss Elean
Carr. Major General Sir John Cows
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