Merritt Trail Area
Battlefields Region 
Provincial
National
World Scouting
9th Welland Rover Crew
In a speech in December 1911 he said:
"The different foreign countries - some twelve they are - which have
adopted Scouting for their boys are now forming a friendly alliance with us
for mutual interchange of views, correspondence, and visits, and thereby to
promote a closer feeling of sympathy between rising generations.
International peace can only be built on one foundation, and that is an
international desire for peace on the part of the peoples themselves in such
strength as to guide their governments.
If the price of one Dreadnought were made available to us for developing
this international friendliness and comradeship between the rising
generations, I believe we in Scouts would do more towards preventing war
than all the Dreadnoughts put together"
In "Rovering to Success" 1922 edition (just after World War I) he
stated:
"I think if every fellow studied a little bit of his own body and
how it works he would quickly gain a new idea of the miraculous handiwork of
God and realize how he is actually active in your body as well as in your
mind.
An when, as some of you have done, you see these wonderful bodies of His
with all their complicated, beautifully fitted living mechanisms smashed,
destroyed or maimed by man-made bombs and shells in man-made made battles
over man-made villainies, you feel that there is something wicked and
profane about war."
In "Aids to Scoutmastership" he stated:
"Scouting is a brotherhood - a scheme which in practice, disregards
differences of class, creed, country and colour, through the undefinable
spirit that pervades it - the spirit of God's Gentlemen."
It is the spirit that matters. Our Scout Law and Promise, when we really put
them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife between
nations."
In the original Scout Law, that he wrote, number 4 read:
"A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every other Scout, no
matter to what country, class or creed the other may belong."
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