Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-30
Wilson at Gir|FlOod Home of His Mother
The President and Mrs. Will son Were Warmly Vel comed at Carlisle.

Carlisle. England Dir, Dec. 29.-(By The A. P.)--President Wilson, ac- companied by Mrs. Wilson, came to Carlisle today in rain and cold pene- trating mist 10 visit the rirlhood home of his mother, But the warmth of the greeting of rhe people 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 iustily as it drove from the station, where the president was received by Mayor Der tram Carr ard local no;abies. to the Crown and Mitre hotel, where the president signed the f-eemans roll.
 The president visited Annetwell street, where the site of his late grandfather's chapel was pointed ou to him, and the house in Cavendish Place that was built by his srandfath- er Later lie 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 III which he touched simply but eloquenty on his mother. e@
 He said: It is was reluctantly that I inject myself into this service. remember ny grandfather very well and, remembering him. 1 can see how he would nos approve. l remember what he required of me and remember the stern lesson of duty ne spoke. And I remember painfully a5ou; things he expected me to know that l did not know.
 There has come a change of times when laymen like myself a:'r permitted to speak in q congregation. There is another another reason why l was re- luctant to speak.
 The feelings excited in me today are really too intimate and too deer to permit of public expression. The 1 memories that have come of the mother who was born here are very af fecting. Her quiet character, hel sense of duty and her dislike of os- | tentation have come back 10 me witt | increasing force as these years O | duty have accumulated. Yet, per i haps it is appropriate that in. place of worship l should acknowledge m! 1 indebtedness to her and her remark | able father, because, after all. to -turI i from the savagery of interests to th' dignity of the performance of right. l "I believe as this w9r has drawI
 nations temporarily together in ;
 combination of physical force, we shal
 now be drawn together in q combina
 tioIi of mor3l force that las defeated the eXfort to subdue the world. Word
 have cut as deep as swords.
 This knowledge that wrong ha been attempted has aroused the na
 tions. They lave gone out like mel l for crusade. No other cause coult
 have drawn SC many of the nations to l gether. They knew an outlaw wa abroad and the outlaw purpose, unspeakable things.
 | It is from quiet places i31e this al over the world that the forces are ac | cumulated ti.&t presently will over power any attempt to accomplish er on a great scale. It is like the rivule 1 that gathers into the river and tn
 river that Eoes to the sea So ther come out Of communities like thes
 streams that fertilize the conscienc of men, and if is the conscience of tn
 world we noW mean to place upon tn
 throne which other tried to-" .'. The lengthy programme Of the da
 was carried out with the single ex ception that the president had no
 intended to speak in tine church.