Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-01-03
WILSON VISITS MOTHERS
BIRTHPLACE.
Speaks Briefly to the People.

President Wilson. accompanied by
! Mrs. Wilson. went TO Carlisle. Eng
land. last Saturday. the 2Sth. in .aiI.
and cold. penetrating mist to visit
,he girliood home Of his mother. But
the warmth Of the greeting of the
People Of the town and Of the thrus-
nnds OF stranSeS from surrounding
! country mere than offset the dreari-
! less OF the weather. Large crowds
| lined the streets and chepred the
/ Presidential Oar;y Justify as it drove
! from the station, where TIE Presi-
! gent was received ty Mayor Bertram
! Carr and local notables. to the Crown
and Mitre Hotel. where the President
signed the Freeman's Roll
The President visited Antwell
! street. where tho site of his late
Srandfather's chapel was pointed out
20 am. and Cavendish Place. tho
house bulls by his grandfather. Later
he attended services IN the Lowther
Street congregational Church. Here
during the service the Rev. Edward
! Hooth. pastor Of the church requested
! the President to come into the pul-
1T and ADDRESS the as&emblage. This
! the President did. delivering a short
address. in which he touched simply,
but rioCuently. On his mother. The
President spoke as follows:
1t is with unaffected reluc,anc,
HAT inject myself into this service
i remember MY grandfather very we'll
ana. remembering him. can see how
he would not approve l remember
Vnat he required OF ME. and remcm-
Der the stern lessor OF duty ne spoke
And remember painfully abcu.
things he expected INC tc know that
did nCt hnoS
ihere has come change OF times
when laymen like myself ar, permit
Ell to SPEAK in congregation. There
10 another reason why I was reluct-
ant TO speak.
Inc feeling excited III ne today
are really too intimate and toe deem
&c permit of public expression. The
memories that have come of the
mother who WAS born here are very
dIect;onate. Her quiet character
hcr sense OF duty and hcr dislike o.
ostensallor have come back to me
with increasing force as these wears
OF my "utv have accumulated. Yet.
perhaps. 1t is appropriate that in a
liacc Of worship, I void acknow-
leig" r'y IN lcbtedncss 10 her and
her remarkable fatner. because. afte,.
all. what the world now is seeking t,. /
no Is 10 rclIrn 20 the paths CT duty |
10 turn from the sav"Eory of in1ert SIS !
to the dignity OF the performance or |
right
Il believe. as tits val has draw |
nations temporarily together in d ,
combination Of physical force. we /.
shall low be drawn together in a :
combination CT -lofal force thai is ir- ;
rtsiS'lbic. 1t Is neral force as much !
as physical force that l,Is defeated |
the e1IertS to subdue che world. |
words have cut "a deep as swords.
The knowledge thai .rons ha,
zen at tempted has aroused the ma
ions Trev have gone mt like men !
Tor ciu,a de. No other cansc could |
have clasn SO many # the nations
together. They knew an outlaw was
AMI that the Outlaw purposeti
things
T. is fri m quiet Places like this all |,
over the world that th:, rccs are a"
c sumulated rf:.t PRESENT.! wiz over
lower any attempt TO accom-. pEish .vi.
on a great scale II is like the rvu-
let that gathers into the liver and the
river that goes Ito the sea So tier,
comes out If communities like these
streams tfult ferti!zzc tho conscience
nj men. ano it is the conscience of the /
world we now meal to place ,y?Jn the
throne which oilers tried to usurp."