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Subj: B.-P.'S OUTLOOK (PART 17)
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Religion
VERY closely allied with education comes the important matter of religion.
Though we hold no brief for any one form of belief over another, we see a
way to helping all by carrying the same principle into practice as is now
being employed in other branches of education, namely, to put the boys in
touch with their objective, which in this case is to do their duty-to God
through doing their duty to their neighbour. In helping others in doing
daily good turns, and in rescuing those in danger, pluck, self-discipline,
unselfishness, chivalry, become acquired, and quickly form part of their
character. These attributes of character, coupled with the right study of
Nature, must of necessity help to bring the young soul in closer touch
spiritually with God.
Personally, I have my own views as to the relative value of the instruction
of children in Scripture history within the walls of the Sunday-school, and
the value of Nature study and the practice of religion in the open air, but
I will not impose my personal views upon others.
I prefer to be guided by collective opinions of experienced men, and here a
remarkable promise stands before us. Scouting has been described by various
men and women of thought and standing as "a new religion" -- three times I
have read it this week. It is not, of course, a "new religion," it is merely
the application to religious training of the principle now approved for
secular training -- that of giving a definite objective and setting the child
to learn and practise for himself -- and that, I think everybody's experiences
will tell him, is the only training which really sticks by a man for good and
ultimately forms part of his character.
January, 1912.
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