The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19
WILSON HEARS SERMON
BY BISHOP GuERRY
LAYS WREATH ON TOMB OF GEN.
ERAL LAFAYETTE,
to Catch Glimpse Of Americas
Chief Executive.


Chief Executive.
Paris, Dec. 15.-President Wilson
spent his first Sunday in Paris by
going twice to church. laying a
wreath on the tomb of Lafayette, and
having brief conference with Prem
Ter Clemenceau and another with
Col. e. II. House. In the evening he
rested in preparation for the coming
strenuous week Of preliminary con-
ferences.
During the afternoon the President
made a short call on President and
Madame Poincare at the Palace of
the Elysee.
In the morning the President, ac-
companied by Mrs. Wilson and Ad-
miral Grayson and by secret service
men, went to the American Presby-
terian church in the Rue de Berri.
His coming was known to only a
few Of the American colony who had
guessed that the President being a
consistent church-goer, would choose
q church Of his own denomination.
Text Fits Occasion.
The Rev. Chauncey w. Goodrich
the pastor, took his text from the
ninth verse Of the ninth chapter of
Isaiah. He dwelt on the necessity of
impregnating political and civil life
with idealism and showed how the
evolution of humanity was reaching
the last stage in the constitution Of
a society of nations. The edifice was
filled, but there was no special ser
vices. The President took part as he
would If he had been at the Central
Presbyterian church in Washington.
President Hears Bishop Guerry.
In the afternoon President Wilson
went to a church of Mrs. Wilson's de-
nomination as Is the custom in WASH
ington when he goes twice on Sunday.
The church selected was the American
Episcopal church of the Holy Trinity,
the Right Rev. William A. Guerry,
ID. D., Episcopal Bishop Of South Car
olina, officiating.
Wreathes Lefayette's Tomb.
The President visited the tomb of
Lafayette in the Picpus Cemetery, in
1.-THE southeastern section of Paris,
while returning home after the morn
ing church services. No ceremony had
been arranged at the cemetery and
the President went accompanied only
by Brig. Gen. Harris, a secret service
operative and a French officer as
signed to him as a personal aide.
The President, removing his hat, en-
tered the tomb carrying a large flor
al wreath.
AS the President placed the wreath
on the tomb he bowed his head and
stood silent before the resting place
of the famous Frenchman who help
ed America in her fight for liberty.
then returned to the Murat residence.
Wilson Brings Sunshine.
In the meantime all the residents
Of Paris apparently had turned out
in the hope of getting a glimpse of
the President. 1t was remarked that
the Wilson luck waa continuing. for
the sun broke through the murky
clouds for the first time in days and
began to dry up the muddy streets.
The sun lit up the city in all its
fluttering banners and flags.
American Stock Goes Up.
10 a foreign observer it appeared
$SudI CSSiy ohc III TdTlS was on the
boulevards. There was no space
whatever on the side walks. A great
crowd gathered in the Place De La
Concord before the headquarters Of
the American mission. The crowd
jammed about the doors took keen
interest in every American in or out.
The most inconsequential attache,
carrying a case Of official papers,
was surrounded and carefully inspect
by admiring French men and women.
Even to Look Like One.
American army automobiles were
surrounded and cheered whenever
they stopped. All one needed appar-
ntly to be taken in to the hearts of
the crowd was to look like an Amer
lean. Every sort of conveyance was
out on the boulevards or in the parks
? each carrying individual cheering
groups. Taxi cabs carried crowds of
American soldiers and even the old
one horse chase was on duty.
Parading happy crowds smacked of
Riverside drive on a Sunday after
noon while the wide spaces and the
parks gave just touch of Washing
ton. Doubtless, the President felt at
home. But all the members Of the
American mission doubtless felt the
Deeper significance of the day.
Henry White former American am
bassador here and now a member Of
the American peace mission, who has