Show BOY The University of Utah summer school sent twenty of its vacation boys on a two days camp in Emigration canyon last The from 8 to 15 years of cooked their own made their own put up and took down their own under the supervision of H. Leo Marshall and Miss Lucy They were not called boy but a The idea is the E. P. Powell remarks that scouts are not a In my very boy days we scouted after the cows for and then we helped milk We scouted the weeds out of the onion and there was no baseball nine in all the But the sun and the apples and there were wild and we scouted for The girls were too in blue They scoured tin skimmed the and played fox and geese in the Then we all scouted together in the corn and we picked up potatoes together till our backs and we helped in the pink was never in my life than when the little mother scouted the woods with me for spring beauties and and later for fringed orchids and moccasin when she named for us ginseng and and wild or helped us pick up beech nuts by the Harding Brook while the squirrels scolded us for indeed did they not own what they could and what right have we to Yet I cannot quite say which was most these hours mother or when our father shook the saying to for the squirrels have their and there is enough for all of and gently he taught us the fine manhood of co-operation in and how we should help the birds and the as we also take their and so all live together with one Lord in one At night with much climbing and scouting we went home with aching and was it not then best of all when the hand of little mother rubbed us much as one would rub a and she Little you need not wear out for truly the Lord will have need of these legs by and You'll you'll And truly it has been and I am glad that legs can worship God as well as Nor am I quite sure that one might not better hang salvation on good sprinting than on good The tongue has some for it can go a long and it can be very ad yet I advise you to try the legs if you care for service in God's church which I take to be the whole world will be astonished when you really begin scouting about to learn how much there is to scout how much to discover and find Some folks know a deal about every spot on except They will tell you about Bombay and Paraguay and but their own twenty acres holds only I should not like to have my boys scout in that away from home all the until home gets to be the most remote and the strangest land in the Is it not barely possible that we may organize too Was there ever anything more perfectly conceived t 1 than the family as it may be lived in and as it sometimes is is the the one all-sufficient organism yet I am sure of only of God and I am sure that tomorrow will be wiser than and we shall not do then just as we do And so I think of this scouting that out of it will come some fine and so far as it teaches the boys and to find themselves and to silt and to and to of we can have none too much of Our house doors are too large and they all swing God will never get too old for us to nor to love The wonderful thing about the Lord's Prayer is that it is just as sweet at eighty as it was at and so it prevents two kinds of not be impatient with for indeed I am not wishing to see old things back nor do I fail to appreciate since we have been learning that the body must be saved a-s well as the Kingsley and Frederick Maurice taught us after beauty and belong to and that sickness is to be then Horace Mann told us that God despises a dy peptic and step by we have come on into this scouting only do not let us now begin to save the body without the We used to pray for an esthetic and we talked about the the flesh and devil as our trinity of Among our college boys there were no calves at all nor any only a few godless fellows used dumb bells and invented Hugh Miller and President Hitchcock helped us still farther out of our and then Walt Whitman jumped the fence years before he was born I set my eldest boy to study Greek and to read the English and imitate We scouted among and a library was the chief end of The end of education was to teach the architecture of And so we had builders who knew to the infinitesimal the fitting and the fitness of verbs and nouns and To their sensitive ears spoke that delicate rhythm that would touch the hearts of was this letter craft that I had planned for my children But to my amazement the first one picked up and did not care for the second picked up bugs and Tving and words to him were of little while the third wholly renounced literature and built It was genuine for they were all only not one built with I am bound to that from my original standpoint they are a. stupid They will spell lor and for the life of I can't see why nor what the k and the w are in So whether I will or I must accept of I do not any longer scout through Milton's as a nor do I feel any conscience about it at because I am no longer interested in reading Jeremiah after I am glad that and the Nineteenth and the great are neither ancient nor but and I love Jesus as a human and a lot of the old questions that were so irritating have gone as the stars go when the sun comes They may be there but they do not and only owls see them or care for |