The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-24
DR.. POLLING TO
TELL EXPERIENCE
in FRONT TRENCH
Will Address Mass Meeting
at First Presbyterian
Church Saturday.
DISTINGUISHED IN
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0R
Went With American Boys
From Base to Firing Line
on Recent Visit.

Daniel A. Polling, LII. D., VINO is to
address a great mass-meeting at the
Presbyterian church, on the topic
with the American Troops from the
Base to the Front-Line Trenches, is
one of the leading young men in the
United States. He is associate pres
ident of the United Society of Chris
tan Endeavor, a speaker or rare elo-
quence and power, universally ad-.
mired and beloved. He was cham
pion athlete in college, and became
field-secretary of the Ohio Christian
Endeavor union During this period
he was Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Ohio, and though the
youngest candidate that ever ran for
that office, he made marvellous
| canvass and more than doubled any
/ previous vote of his party.
Since becoming associate president of
! the Christian Endeavor Society, DR..
Polling has not lost his zeal for tenn
/ perance, but is president of the great
federation of temperance organiza
tons, which has done so much during
recent years to push prohibition
throughout the nation. He was sec
rotary OF: the Flying Squadron, which
! helped to bring several States into
the prohibition column, and was head
/ of one of the sections of the squad
ron, speaking in all parts of the coun
try many times a day for several
months. His work in the Intercolleg-
late Prohibition Association has also
been conspicuously successful.
In January DIR. Polling, by SPECIAL
invitation, went to England to speak
on behalf of war prohibition there.
He held meetings in many of the lead
ing cities of England and Scotland,
and though the prohibition cause is
far from popular in the United King
dom, and former speakers of great
prominence had received scanty at
tention, and some had been mobzed,
DR.. Polling won many oratorica1 tri-
umphs and never failed to hold his
audiences enthralled.
After this speaking tour he went
to France, where he donned the Y. M.
G. A. uniform, and spent several
weeks living with men in the train
ing camps of the American soldiers
and the trenches at the front. While
there he had some thrilling expert
ences. He passed through the ordeal
of the first gas attack made on the
American lines, and more than once
was under fire. He was working at
one time in a 7. M. c. A. hut close
to the German lines, and aided some
observation-disclosures to bring in a wound
ed German. It was necessary for
them to carry this German across an
open space toward battalion head
quarters a little way back. The en-
envy at once opened a fierce shell
fire on thep arty of stretcher-bearers,
and before it they fell to the ground
and waited. When the fire did not
cease, they were compelled to run to
headquarters, and got through with
out much injury, through DR.. Polling
: was slightly wounded in one hand.
One of the soldiers, however, was
blown about five feet by an explod-
ing shell. A party was sent back af-
ter the German prisoner, accompan-
e led by the Y. M. C. A. secretary to
show where he was. This party also
t was shelled, but got back safely, car
l rying1 the German on a stertcher.
This is only a sample of the many
t thrilling stories that DR.. Polling will
C tell in his forthcoming address in this
: place. Everywhere he went, both in
! the United Kingdom and on the Con-
D tinent, he met hundreds of Christian
r Endeavorers. He found that almost
every other Y. NJ. c. A. worker is ar
e Endeavorer, and in the ranks they
: are fighting in immense numbers. He
s greeted them everywhere, and gave
: them world of cheer. and inspira-
ton.
n DR.. Poling's audiences on his pres.
n ent tour throughout the United State:
f are limited only by size of the audi
: forum, and are intensely interested
$ in what he has to say. not only abou
# Christian Endeavor, but also abou
the conditions under which our Amer
lean boys are living in the trainins
camps and in the trenches. Regard
ing the latter he has many hearten
ing experiences to relate, and his tes
timony is most encouraging to al
4 American patriots. 1--WE have liter
ally worked miracles, and our mel
are physically fit and morally sound
is his testimony concerning on
troops.