Self Improvement: The ambition to get on in life by all fair means.
Humility: That fine quality which keeps a scout from boasting, and which generally reveals a boy of courage and achievement.
Honor: That great thing which is more sacred than anything else to scouts and gentlemen; the disdain of telling or implying an untruth; absolute trustworthiness and faithfulness.
Duty to God: That greatest of all things, which keeps a boy faithful to his principles and true to Ms friends and comrades;
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that gives him a belief in things that are high and noble, and which makes him prove Ms belief by doing his good turn to some one every day.
This list of virtues a scout must have, and if there are any that stand out more prominently than the others, they are the following:
Courage
It is horrible to be a coward. It is weak to yield to fear and heroic to face danger without flinching. The old Indian who had been mortally wounded faced death with a grim, smile on his lips and sang his own death song. The solider of the
