BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
Sir-I wish to reply to Mr, J. Stewart Smith's letter (Listener, February 1) on the subject of the Boy Scout movement’s early beginning. For over 60 years, the Annual London Display of the Boy’s Brigade has been . a central feature of Brigade life. The Display of 1903 was of special, if at the time unrecognised, significance. For from it can be traced the start of the great Boy Scout movement. General BadenPowell at that time was already a popular national figure; the aura of Mafeking still lingered about his person. He was not yet well known in England as he had stayed in Africa to reorganise and command the South African Constabulary. He arrived back in London in time to be present at this 1903 London B.B. Display, in Royal Albert Hall, as the
Chief Guest. It was a case of "Veni, vidi, vici.’ His coming was received with a tumultuous welcome from the packed Albert Hall. He saw his first view of the boy "in the mass." From this gathering commenced an immediate and sincere friendship between General Baden-Powell and Sir William A. Smith, the founder of the Boys’ Brigade. The first article on "Scouting for Boys" appeared in the 1906 June issue of the Boys’ Brigade National magazine B.B. Gazette, "Scouting for Boys," after appearing in fortnightly parts, was published as a whole in 1908, five years after the first contact with boys en masse at Albert Hall. This foundation year of the Boy Scout movement, 1908, was the Silver jubilee year of the Boys’ Brigade. General Baden-Powell’s first four meetings in London were organised by the Boys’ Brigade London Committee. When he held his famous experimental camp on Brownsea Island, he asked the Boys’ Brigade for boy personnel and they were provided by the 1st Bournemouth Company. The same spirit of co-operation exists today between the two movements. The only difference is a difference of method and purpose. The Boys’ Brigade method is based on a build-up of discipline, with a strong religious purpose based on its object, which is "The advancement of Christ’s Kingdom among boys, and the promotion of habits of obedience, reverence, discipline, self-respect, and all that tends towards a true Christian man.«
liness."
HOWARD L.
TROTMAN
Brigade (NZ:) Secretary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 914, 15 February 1957, Page 5
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