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President Deeply Moved When
He Is Asked 10 Address Con-
gregatiOn in Church Form
erIy Served by Grandfather.
CARLISLE, Eng, Dec. so.-President
Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson,
came to Carlisle yesterday in rain and
a cold, penetrating mist TO visit me
girlhood home Of his mother. But the
warmth of the greeting Of the people
of the town and Of the thousands OF
try more than offset the weather.
Large crowds lined the streets and
cheered the presidential party Justify
as 1t drove from the station, where
the president was received by Mayor
Bertram Carr and local notables, to
the Crown and Mitre hotel, where the
president signed the freeman's roll,
The president visited Annettwell
street, where the site OF his late grand
fathers chapel wal pointed out to MIN
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 Rev. Edward Booth.
pastor of the church, requested the
president to come into the pulpit and
address the assemblage. This the pres
ident did, delivering a short speech in
which he touched simply but e~loquently
on his mother. The president said.
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. i remember
what he required of me and remem-
Der the stern lesson 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 ! was
reluctant to speak.
Recalls Mother.
THE feelings excited in me today
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, her
sense of duty and her dislike Of osten-
tatlon have come back to me with
increasing force as these years Of duty
appropriate that in a place of worship
! should acknowledge my Indebtedness
to her and her remarkable father, be-
cause, after all, what the world now
IL seeking to do Is to return to the
paths Of duty, to turn from the saw
agery of interests to the dignity Of
the performance Of right.
Il believe as this wal has drawn
nations temporarily together in a COM
hination Of physical force, we shall now
be drawn together In a combination OF
moral force that Is irresistible. It 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 nations.
They have gone out like men for a
crusade. No other cause could have
drawn so many of the nations to-
gcther. They knew a. outlaw was
abroad, and that the outlaw purposed
u~nspeakable things.
lit Is from quiet places like this all
over the world that the forces are aC-
cumulated that presently will over
power any attempt to accomplish evil
let that gathers into the river and the
river that goes to the sea. So there
m out Of communities like these
streams that fertiliZe the conscience OF
men, and 1t Is he conscience OF the
world we now mean to place upon the
| lhlpllt WHICH Olitlb u lCN w asuAp
The lengthy program of the day was
carried out with the single exception
| that the president had not intended to
speak In the church,
Rain continued to fall but the crowds
in the streets cheered President VIII
son all the way to the Crown and Mitre
hotel, where other prominent citizens
were awaiting to receive the noted
| guest. Here Thomas Watson, an aged
house painter, and the last living pupil
| of the school Of President Wilson'S
| grandfather, was introduced to the pres
ident.
Inspects Mementoes.
President Wilson inspected documents
| dealing with the residence here OF his
grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Wood
row, and then drove to the Salvation
Army Hall, where once stood the build
ing that was the presidents mothers
home. Then he visited CaVendish
house in warwick road. built by his
grandfather, and where his grandfather
taught school and where the president
mother also lived for a while. Tn,
president remained here for 10 min
utes and proceeded to the Lowthel
street Congregational church, which wa:
crowded,
The congregation rose as the presi'
dent and his party entered ana were
conducted to the front pew. AS th'
party walked down the aisle the, or
gantst played "The Battle Hymn OF tn
Republic" which was listed on the pro
gram as "the American national an
them" Rev. Mr.. Booth entered tn
pulnit, accompanied by the Bishop o
Carlisle. Mr.. Booth gave the inVoca
ton and the choir and the congreRa
ton sang the hymn, Before Jehovah
Awful Throne" President Wilson JOINED
in the singing. ar.
Booth, who had thanked Mr.. Wilsol
for his visit, said
MIR. President, our prayers Tor yo'
ascend, our love to YOU Is given, AM
our praise of you shall be sounded a
long AS we have breath. We all wan
TO hear your voice, won't you say
few words to u.s."
President Wilson hesltated and the
answered Ives sir" and walked TO
Mace in front OF the choir. He wa
visibly affected as he resumed his sea
after the address,
The service concluded with the sing
,ng Of "God Save the King After tn
henediction President Wilson was Ia
ken to the pastors study .where n
signed the register and sat IN the ma
hogany leather upholstered chair Una
was once his grandfather's. Then y
returned to the church, where the con
gregation was still waiting and passe
down the aisle and out of the 400
If was still raining as the presiden
drove back to the Crown ana Ml'r
hotel Here he remained untl ocloS
when he drove to the station, he sal
good bye at the car door 70 tne hotaple
Who had come to the station TO nl
hin farewell, The president wa
cheered as the train at lis p, m DE
nnrted for Manchester.