Scouting, Volume 8, Number 15, October 14, 1920 Page: 11
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SCOUTING, OCTOBER 14, 1920
11
FELLOWSHIP HIKE:
TIME?—Sunday afternoon.
Place?—Atop a lofty peak
overlooking the Boy Scout
camps.
Who?—Over 300 Scout Execu-
tives addressed by Monsignor John
J. Dunn, Chancellor Archdiocese of
New York (personally representing
Archbishop Hayes, Catholic) ; Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Free Synagogue,
New York, representing the Jewish
group; Dean Howard Robbins, Cath-
edral of St. John the Divine (per-
sonally representing Bishop Burch,
Protestant).
Every man climbed the steep as-
cent in the hot sunshine to the great
outcropping rock that they named on
the inspiration of the moment " Fel-
lowship Hill." On this rock with
scant patches of grass and now and
then a bush to add to comfort, they
sat themselves to hear the speakers.
Before them spread that wondrous
scene of sky and hills and trees and
lakes. Far across the valley, small,
immaterial, automobiles passed and
repassed along the roadway, and
now and then a pedestrian or two,
mere specks strolled by. Yet when the
group of men rose to sing a favorite
hymn their voices carried through the
perfect silence of that day and arrested
those pedestrians who stood and looked
in wonder at what must have seemed to
them but a black patch upon a glaring
rock high up on a hilltop giving forth
strains of music.
The three distinguished visitors of the
day climbed with the men to speak from
what was perhaps the most remarkable
pulpit each of them had ever occupied.
Their backs were to the beauties of land-
scape, but their eyes looked into the
earnest eyes of men determined to have
the truth. And to those men the truth
was given.
WHERE ALL CREEDS MEET
Because Scouting reached all boys and
was not sectarian, should a man, there-
fore, be religiously colorless? God for-
bid. Entirely independent of each other,
the three powerful speakers drove home
the fact that a man to be a man, must be
possessed of and by profound religious
convictions. To these he should be true
as- steel and constant as the stars—ready
if need to give his life for his faith, but
to every other man he must accord that
same respect which he would demand
for himself. Tolerant of and respectful
toward the convictions of others, but
sacrificing none of the sacred power of
the faith and spiritual dynamic of his
life.
And why? Because the leaders in
Scouting hold in trust the training of the
boyhood of America in the great ideals
of our country. Because America, if she
remain true to those ideals, may save
the world from materialism, Bolshevism,
greed, irreligion, Godlessness. To pre-
serve the high ideals of all races, to keep
men ever moving Godward, to bring na-
tions, into fellowship, to end war and to
set up the Kingdom of God on earth—
these were why men died on battlefields
that are still smoking with ruined vil-
lages. And here in America we must see
to it that our boyhood accept and faith-
fully discharge the trust to preserve to
the world the principles of American
institutions, and keep America forever
foremost, not in commercial dominance,
not in armed force, but in nobility of
thought, in honor and in unselfish
friendship toward all men.
In such a service to boyhood there re-
mains no place for sectarian antagon-
isms, nor sectarian rivalries, but Protest-
ant and Catholic and Jew are brothers in
a common cause, fellow-workers,
friends.
A wonderful vision to crown the pan-
orama of nature which was spread out
before the group. Miles of hills crowned
with green, though here was a scarlet
thread of autumn vine—deep blue lakes,
and on beyond and above the deep blue
of the coming twilight of a wondrous
mountain day. And within—a sense of
obligation, of duty, of privilege, of op-
portunity, of "personal resolve, of chal-
lenge to be, and to be broad; to serve,
and to serve loftily.
POINTERS FROM THE SCOUT PRESS
YOUR troop is not going to be a
success this year, and is not going
to contribute to a 100% standard of
Scouting in Macon, UNLESS you have
a live, active program, and WORK it.
—Scoutmasters Weekly Bulletin, Macon,
Ga. Council.
to the front and gets a badge conferred
upon his breast.—Boy Scout Nezvs,
Moline, III. Council.
You are a boy's man of action, Mr.
Scoutmaster.—Scout News, Covington,
Ky. Council.
Troop Five mothers are to meet soon,
and prepare for an active season. The
various mothers groups are doing fine
work, and there is no doubt that results
will be larger than ever this year. . .
Forty fathers camped with their sons
this season at the Glen, and became
enthusiastic campers. They are making
plans to boom the work—The Scout
Gazette, Montclair, N. J. Council.
Oh, boy, what a grand and glorious
feeling it is when a fellow is called up
Overnight Hike.
In preparing for an overnight hike
prepare for the worst and pray for the
best. Before starting be sure you can
answer the following questions in the
affirmative:
1. Will we get wet if it rains?
2. Have we secured permission to use
the land we are going to camp on, and
to build fires?
3. Are there many mosquitoes?
4. Have we pure and adequate drink-
ing water?
5. Have we plenty of wholesome
food?
6. Have we in the troop, sufficient
knowledge and ability to do the cook-
ing?
• 7. Have I issued to each scout a list
of things absolutely needed?
8. Have I insisted upon the written
consent of parents?
9. Are we sure of sufficient covering
to insure warmth all night?
10. Have I made enough allowance
for leadership, so I, as Scoutmaster,
will not be overwhelmed with the task
but rather prepared to enjoy it, even as
my scouts will enjoy it?
11. Have we a definite, varied program
of activities, etc.?
12. Have I invited the troop committee
to join us?
Scout News, Covington, Ky. Council.
32 BOYS
OR $16—WHICH WILL YOU PAY?
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