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The prostiEe of war-like deeds in one of the most valued
inheritances of nations and its loss is a sure oympton of tho
degeneracy of a racer a percursor of the docadanco of a people. "
Boys ßri ados reflected tho importance attached to the
military ethos. These p ra-military organiantionc linked religion
and militarism firmly togethcr#
. Thera were two main brigades,
one attached largely to the Scottiah Presbyterian Churches,
founded in Glasgow in 1884,
(2) and one started in 1891 by a
rnemb:,
r of the Church of England Junior Temperance Society.
The Imperial catastrophe of Khartoum had rocult©d in a Gordon
Boy's Brigade being sot up in Liverpool in 1885. It was noticablo
that neither the English nor Scottish PTonconforniat Churches
were very much interacted in brigades, *-nor did they share most
of the Imperial sentiments of the time. By 1898 the English
Church Lads Brigade had over one thoueand companies and the
Scottish Boys Brigade over eight hundred. Mootingo were a
combination of drill and hymn singing and the Brigaden aimed to
cultivate those qualities most admired by the Imperialiota The
objects of the Scottish brigade were '$. #tho advancement of Christ's
Kingdom among boys and the promotion of habita of obedience,,
(1) Unitod rvico Mara. =ino, October 18989 Major Gonerol. u+14,
IOngough, "The othico of wren
(2) Boyn Brit nde Ot , tto, March 189"
(3) Church Lor3¬ý! Pr n o. flop 1891-2*
(5)
(1)