The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-12-31
PRESIDENT WILSON
SPENT SUNDAY
At the Home OF His Maternal
Grandmother at Carlisle,
England
SPOKE IN THE CHURCH

Carlisle, England, Dec. 3O..-
President Wilson, accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson, came to Carlisle yes
terday in rain and a 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 Hotel, whore 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 d 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, I
can see how he would not approve.
I 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 I did not know
"There has come a change OF
times when laymen like myself are
permitted to speak in congrega-
tion. There is another reason why
I was reluctant to speak.
"The feelings excited in me to-
day are really too intimate and too
deep to permit of public expression.
The memories that have come Of the
mother who was born here are very
affecting. Her quiet character, the
sense of duty and her dislike Of os-
tentation have come back to me
with increasing force as these years
of duty have accumulated. Yes,
perhaps, it is appropriate that in
place Of worship should acknowl-
edge my Indebtedness to her and
her remarkable father, because, af-
ter all what the world now is seek
ing to do is to return to the paths
of duty, to turn from the savagery
Of interests to the dignity Of the
performance of right.
IT believe as this war has drawn
nations temporarily together in a
combination in moral force is ire
sistable. 1t is moral force as much
as physical force that has defeated
the effort to subdue the world.
Words have cut as deep as swords.
"The knowledge that wrong has
been attempted has aroused the ma
tions. They have gone out like
men for a crusade. No other cause
could have drawn so many of the
nations together. They knew an
outlaw was abroad and that the out
law purposed unspeakable things.
ut is from quiet places like this
all over the world that the forces
are accumulated that presently will
overpower any attempt to accom-
plish evil on a great scale. 1t is
like the rivulet that gathers into
river that goes to the sea. So there
comes out of communities like those
streams that fertilize the conscience
of men, and it is the conscience of
the world we now mean to place up
on the throne which others tried to
usurp." 7
The lengthy program Of the day
was carried out with the single ex-
ception that the President had not
intended to speak in the church.
The Presidential train arrived at
citadel station on schedule time.
In addition to Mayo Carr, the
lady mayoress, Miss Eleanor Carr,
| Major General Sir John Cowan and
the high sheriff were on the plat
form whom President Wilson alight-
(Cintinssd On Lest Pass.)