An interesting ceremony was performed at the B. P. Sooute' Headquarters on Wednesday night, when twenty-two new members took the Scout's promise and were enrolled into the Baden Powell Troop. The ceremony of "swearing in" was conducted by the Troop Chaplain, the Rev. A. J. Walker, wa., and both on account of the large' numbers of recruits and the keenness of each new ''Tenderfoot" the funetion was an impressive one to old as well as new members.
The following boys were enrolled:
F. Ambrose, B. Donald, A. Donald, F. Dona'd, H. Kadoorie.
Judah, E. Elias, R. Silby, Saphirre, R. Marshall, B. Pfeiffe Johns. Nash, W. Maclennan, Cohen, H. Bowker. C. Brown, G Jensen, A. Jensen, Foox, J. Brown, and D. Madonna:
Scoutmaster Millington was charge of the parade.
The "Scout's Promise" ly taken in the presence of the whole troop and on joining the Scout Brotherhood a bey endeavours to "Do his duty to God and the King, to kelp others at all tim Scout Law." Thi tains ten promises and being framed entirely according to the best ideas of chivalry of the Knights is a code of honour which' may well serve a man throughout life. As Lord Kitchener, who is a keen supporter of the movement, once said, "Once a Scout, always 'a Scout," and Wednesday night's recruits by their keen and earnest bearing certainly impressed one with their intention to live up to this high standard.
The Dean gave a short and eloquent address to the troop after the conclusion of the ceremony. He pointed out the widespread growth of the scout movement, and said that country's prosperity and influence among the nations did not by any means entirely depend on her skill in arms, but rather on the uprightness and integrity of ber citizens, and that a man might he proud of hie native land and is citizenship of a great Empire when he could show himself not only ready to fight for her cause, but what was perhaps harder, to live always according to the best tra: tions of the nation. It was for this reason that boys took th scout's promise, and that they -e1 to remember that in a few yenrs they would become men, and therefore more fully able to carry out "rd. spread that knightly chivalry snd
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