The Scout Law in Practice – A Scout is Loyal
by Arthur A. Carey, copyright 1915, by Little Brown and Company, Boston MA
"He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due, his scout leader, his home, and parents and country." The English version of the law has this sentence in addition, merely by way of illustration:
"He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy, or who even talks badly of them."
If also includes "employers" as people to whom loyalty is due; and it must be quite clear to any one that if a person has a business agreement with another by which he receives pay for work that he promises to do, it must be a matter of honor to be loyal to that person and to do full and honest work; for, without this unwritten understanding, he never would have received his job. But it is equally plain that the same loyalty is due from the employer to his employee, and for the same reason; for nobody would accept work without the assurance of fair treatment on the part of his employer, unless he were forced to do so by the fear of starvation or other adverse circumstances. No scout who is an employer could take advantage of the unfortunate situation of his employee in order to make more money out of him, and such conduct would be gross disloyalty both to the person employed and to the scout law itself.
People who are loyal to the same laws will always be loyal to one another, and loyalty to the scout law among all its members, both men and boys, should make the Boy Scout Brotherhood a strengthening and uplifting power all over the world.
2 Kings 20:3
“Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
2 Samuel 16:17
So Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
2 Timothy 1:13
[ Be Loyal to the Faith ] Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”