FIRST SCOUT PROMISE
DUTY TO GOD MESSAGE OF REAFFIRMATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 24. (Received November 25, at 9.55 a.m.) Deputy Chief Scout Somers, of the Boy Scouts Association, circulated a notice reaffirming the first Scout promise —“ I promise on my honour to do my best to do my duty to God,” emphasising that a Scout cannot belong to any organisation denying the existence of God. The official said the message was regarded as necessary in the present troubled state of the world and the growth of an anti-God movement. He explained that no specific incident had prompted the statement.
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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 9
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101FIRST SCOUT PROMISE Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 9
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