DOMINION BOY SCOUTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1273, 27 May 1912, Page 2

DOMINION BOY SCOUTS.

Thirty of the localHroops (Ist Poverty Bay, of Bbyi Scouts, attended- a church parade under Scoutmaster Toomathf to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church yeh-terday'"«KMfiiing[cV.-!;Iilf double line; \yith officers on the left flank, the troop marched down Ghilders road. to Peel street, along Peel street, arid then up G 1 n dstone road to the Church . The ser - vice was a special dne • and the 'hymns Werb appropriately chosen. They jrere the grand old; marching.- hyrrins whose first lines ate: "Who is on the Lord's side' ?" f 'Yield '• riot to [ iJemptaion ,'.' aftd ••Tnieihearted, whole-hearted, faithfnl and loynl;'? The fcermpn was ffom two words "m Luke 12-^4o,' •♦Be Ready," the nearest reading m the " Bible to the Scouts' motto, "Be prepared." --'Rev. W. Grant, chaplain to the tropp,' showed that the Scouts' organisation is not^ a military scheme, but rather'. a -movement to Hiake boys true citizens of the" Empire. 11$ showed that all the great men of our race, explorers, ecientjats, mjssion.ariea, received much. the' same trailing as is laid down for the scout. The origin of the movement m Mafeklng under General Sir R. S. S. BadenPowell was touched upon. Then the speaker emphasised the first part of, the Scout oath — 'loyalty to God and the King. He showed that all must be true scoitts of the great Scoutmaster "' JesUs Christ. Another "•■point • mentioned was that, as a (war 1 scdiit "prepared tha way for tha (M'jiiy, 'so> a 'psace' scout prepares the wav for good worjfjjy-' ljimge|f- \\\ aftLn 1 life. '■'■■■