The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-01-02
WOULD PLACE WORLD CON.
SCIENCE UPON THE THRONE

Carlisle, England, Dec. 29..-Presi-
dent Wilson, accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson, came to Carlisle to-day in
rain and a cold penetrating mist to
visit the girlhood home Of his mother.
But the warmth Of the greeting of
the people of the town and of the
thousands of strangers from the sur
rounding country more than offset
the dreariness of the weather. Large
crowds lined the streets and cheered
the presidential party Justify as it
drove from the station, where the
president was received by Mayor Ber-
tram Carr and local notables, to the
Crown and Mitre Hotel, where the
president signed the Freeman's Roll
They visited Annetwell St., where
the site of his late grandfather's
chapel was pointed out to him and
the house in Cavendish Place that was
built by his grandfather. During the
services the Rev. Edward Booth, the
pastor, requested the president to
come into the pulpit and address the
assemblage. This the president did,
delivering short speech, in which he
touched simply but eloquently on
mis- mother. The president spoke as
follows:
ut is with unaffected reluctance
that inject myself into this service.
| remember my grandfather very
we'll, and remembering him, l could
see how he would not approve. re-
member what he requested of me
and remember the stern lesson of duty
he spoke. And I remember painful
ly about things he expected me to
know that l did not know.
There has come a change of times
when laymen like myself are permit
ted to speak in congregation. There
is another reason why was reluctant
% speak.
"Thc feelings fixed in me to-day
ire 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 os-
tentation have come back to me with
increasing force as these years of
duty. have accumulated. Yet, per-
haps, it is appropriate that in a place
Of worship l should acknowledge my
indebtedness to her and her remark
able father, because all that the world
In 20 IN q,
the paths of duty, to turn from the
savagery of interests to the dignity
Of the performance Of right.
81 believe as this war has drawn
nations temporarily together in a
combination of physical force we shall
be drawn together in a combination
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 cut
as deep as swords.
World Coss on Crusads
"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 80 many nations together
They knew an outlaw was abroad and
that the outlaw purposed unspeakable
things.
"It is from quiet places like this
all over the world that the forces are
accumulating that presently will over.
power any attempt to accomplish
evil on q great scale. It~is like the
rivulet that gathers into the river
and the river that goes to the sea
So there comes out Of communities
like this those streams that fertilize
the conscience Of men, and it is the
conscience of the world we now
mean to place upon the throne which
others have tried to usurp."