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and command his interest. He talks,
eats, lives, these things from one
troop meeting to another. Some
where in between these two troop
meetings comes a Sunday and the
Bible school. At least twice armed
IF not thrice--is the teacher who
makes it his business to know what
the interests are which the Scout
is satisfying through his troop work
and gear those same dominant in
terests to his class work with the
same boys. This is availing ones
self OF the interest that is already
at work in the boys mind-it elm
mates the heart breaking work of
trying to interest the boy in some
thing which is entirely foreign to
his natural interest and consequently
more difficult to get him to respond
to, or even give attention to. 1t
also puts a new meaning and value
to the instruction cf the Scoutmaster
to give the Scout interests a Sunday
school getting.
Scouting brings another helper into
the life of the boy-the Scoutmaster-
whose class comradeship gives him
rare entire into the inner life of
every boy in his troop. He becomes
acquainted with them in an environ
ment--the out-of- -door-which makes
it very easy for the boy to reveal his
real self. The games and contests
and other group activities of the
troop or patrol are sure to bring
latent and sometimes very signifi-
cant character TRAITS to the surface
A discussion of these things with
the Scoutmaster will give the Sunday
school teacher a much more accurate
knowledge of the real character of
each boy in the class and reveal with
great accuracy the traits in his char
acter which need to be eliminated or
developed as the case may be. Such
team work. in boy building is very
valuable both TO the teacher and to
the scoutmaster.
There is another angle from which
the Scoutmaster can render a very
valuable service to the Sunday school
teacher. To the average boy his
Scoutmaster is good deal of hero.
He is eager to be what the Scout
master wants him to be and to do
what the Scoutmaster wants him to
do. The strong endorsement Of the
Bible, the church and the Sunday
school by the Scoutmaster will 30 far
towards selling" the boy a more
vital idea of and attitude toward
these things than the average boy
naturally possible. He thinks of them
now in terms of their masculine
worth. What looks good to his
Scoutmaster looks good to him. If a
strong vigorous red blooded man
thinks we'll of these thinks and makes
real use of them it is much easier
for the boy to throw his own atten-
ton to them more heartily. An oc-
cassional session of the class con-
Quoted by the Scoutmaster gives
additional power to the response of
the boy along these lines.
The teachers of most Bible classes
find themselves talking about kind
ness, friendliness, service. 1t is a
question whether they are much
more than words to these Sunday
school boys. And all at once these
same boys-who among themselves
may have termed such ideas as Sissy
stuff" are actually doing those same
things, as scouts, because the second
clause in the scout oath which they
have taken pledges them ito help
other people at all times" and one
Of the big slogans of Scouting, which
100000 other boys are putting across,
is do a Good Turn Daily" Can't
you see how quickly the boys change
their ideas about the Sunday school
teachers message the next time she
talks about these things to her
class? Once more Scouting has DEM
onstrated its immense value to the
Sunday school.
Scouting believes in God, in his
infinite Fatherhood. ION my honor
I promise that l will do my duty to
God" "a Scout is Reverent." So
reads the Scout oath and law. And
it means it. 1t is the testimony of
hundreds OF pastors that the scout
movement has helped them most de-
cidedly in making God a practical
personal reality in the lives Of thous-
ands upon thousands of boys.
Once more Scouting offers itself to
every teacher of every Sunday school
class OF teen" boys in America with
an absolute guarantee that it will
help that teacher TO bring God closer
to the boys in the class he teaches.
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