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Wits I..JTiIER'S
CIRLROOD HOME
The President Warmly Greeted
at Carlisle, Eng,
IN GRANDFkTnER'S PULPIT
Mr.. Wilson Delivers an Address in
Church and Visited House Built by
His Ancestor.

Carlisle. England, Dec. 3O.-Presi-
den Wilson. accompanied by Mrs.
Nl.s..n, citlur To Carlisle III rain lnG
h ,r.i,t, penetrating uii>f :" visit the
gilIhoud home OF his nptlier.
The warmth Of the greeting Of the
peoplt. OF the town and of the thou
sands of strangers from the surround
ing country more than offset the
drt:irinesS of the weather.
Large crowds lined the streets and
chrvred the presidential party Justify
as il drove from the station, where the
president was received by Mayor Ber-
tram Carr and Local noiabies, to the
Crown and Mitre hotel, where the
president signed the freeman's roll.
The president visited Annetwell
street. where the site of his late
grandfather's chapel was pointed out
to him and the Louise in CavendiSh
place that was built by his grand
father. Later he attended services
III !hr Lowther Street Congregational
church.
Here, during the services. Rev. Ed
ward Booth. pastor of the church, re-
queSted the president 10 come into the
pulpit and address the aSSemblage.
This the president did, delivering
short speech, in which he touched
simply. hut eloquently, on his mother.
The president spoke as follows:
eli is with unaffected reluctance
tia. / inject myself into this service.
| remember my grandfather very we'll,
and. remembering him. | can see now
he would not approve. | remember
what he required of me and remember
the stern lesson of duty he spoke. And
remember painfully about things he
eXupcted me To know that | did not
know.
! there has come change of times
when laymen like myself are permit
ted to. speak in a congregation. There
is another reason why | was reluc-
lant to speak.
! The feelings excited in me today
ARE really too intimate and too deep
10 permit of public expression. ihe
memories that have come of The
mother who was born here are very
affecting.s Her quiet character, her
sense of duty and her dislike of os-
tentation have come back to me with
increasing force as these years of
duty have accumulated. Yet, perhaps,
1t is appropriate that in a place of
worship | should acknowledge my in
debteGness to her and her remarkable
father, because, after all, what the
world now is seeking to do is to re-
turn TO the paths of duty, to turn from
the savagery Of interests to the dig
nifty of the performance of right
Il believe as this war has drawn
bination Of physical force, snail
now be drawn together in a qombina-
ton of moral force that is irresistible.
1t is moral force as much as physical
force that has defeated the effort to
subdue the world. Words have sht as
deep as swords.
! 1.-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 outlaw proposed
unspeakable things.
1T is from quiet places like this
all over the world that the forces ac-
cumulated that presently will over
power any attempt to accomplish evil
on great scale. 1t is like the rivu
let that gathers into the river and
the river that goes to the sea. S"
there comes out of communities like
these streams that fertiliZa the con-
science of men, and ii is Ii" "ansci-
ence of the world we now mean to
place upon the throne which others
tried to ususD."