Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
BIG ENDEAVOR
MOBILIZATION
IS HUGE SUCCESS
Hundreds of Delegates Fill
Auditoriums of Messiah
CHURCH; 300 at Banquet

The mobilization of Christian En-
deavor societies reached its climax
last evening when the endeavorers
thronged the large auditorium OF
Messiah Lutheran Church, Hun
dreds of delegates gathered by So
cieties at an early hour to Sain ad-
mittance to the church and were
quickly seated by a large corps of
ushers.
Two societies won prizes for the
largest percentage of attendance at
the main sessions. Penbrook Church
of God won first prize and Fourth
Street Church of God. intermed ediates,
second prize. The prizes were large
pictures of the Rev. d. A. Polling,
neatly framed. who was the principal
speaker for the occasion.
The music by the Harrisburg c.
c. choral union and the c. T.. or
chestra were elaborate and was high
ly appreciated.
After the seating of over 500 dele
gates and prominent endeavorers at
the banquet. Paul \. Strickler intro
duced DIR. Polling. Before the ad-
dress Miss Mae c. Hoover, secre-
tary of the Harrisburg c. f. Union,
read a poem entitled Welcome TO
DR.. Polling" written by the Rev. c.
d. Rishel. of Enola.
An alumni association with a
mem bership of 800 was organized.
President Frank s. Montgomery, of
the city union, announced the fol-
lowing officers OF the new organiZa-
ton: j. Frank Palmer chairman:
the Rev. W. y. Yates. d. D., city; \.
Elwyn Strobe. Camp Hill; Nelson
CasSell, Penbrook, rs members: /:
Charles r. Bartley. city. treasurer.
The Rev. DR.. A. Il. Steck, of Car
Isle, handled his subject THE
Lords Day." with much interest.
He spoke about the victories won
by Christians and the follies of an
open Sabbath.
A. ]. Shartle. of Boston, treasurer
and publication manager of the
United Society of Christian Endea-
vor. former State secretary. was
introduced and brought greetings
from $4,000 societies, with over L.
100000 membership. Greetings were
also received from the Rev. Francis
4. Clark, d. D.. of Boston, and We're
read during the evening.
President Frank s. Montgomery.
president of the Harrisburg c. +.
Union, and Miss Emily Edwards,
president of the Dauphin county C.
+. Union. presided over the sessions.
ana the {. f. program kept the en-
deaVor enthusiasm very much alive
Tor more than four hours duration.
DIR. Polling said in part:
The call of the crisis is the call
to Christian Endeavor for in rhe
trenches of France and in the r.r,ns
at nome and on the ships Of the sea
more than 100000 of The young ,.nn
OF our government served ard sac
rificed.
How quickly they came. Frou,
III! own local union six officers on
i.S'eu "lthln few weeks: before I
nFst left Tor France twenty three
STATE pFesidents, active or past. We're
IN training, and a great ,itv union
that of Des Moines. found .tsetr ,rith'
out a young man left on ths execu-
tive committee. Within the first wear
of the war Illinois and Ohio recorded
more than five Christian Endeayor-
ers in service for every society. A
census of Camp Hancock taken IN
early December. 1917. revealed the
fact that ten per cent. OF the urcn
in training there at that time were
Christian Endeavorers.
I'm every Y. NJ. c. A. nut vas
greeted by Christian Endeavorers rrn-
der helmets and with gas-musks, at
the alert. What a fine group that
was from Maine! And then there
was the brother of a president OF ;he
Oklahoma union. In one hut I was
greeted by one president of the Colo
RADIO union, in another by the former
president of the Minnesota union,
and In n deep dugout within the FIST
line I found the lieutenant who as
the first officer after the entry of the
United States into the war 20 receive
the CroiX de Guerre. he is now
Colonel Robert Patterson, of Hunt
ington. Ind. leading Endeavorer vt
his local church. ! had net him first
at the Young Peoples Conference at
Winona Lake.
On no day in France did look in
vain for Christian EndeavorA. and no
group I met there was so small that
il did not contain them. Ny visit