Knight's Code Minute

This Minute is meant for Scouts BSA.

• Be always ready with your armor on, except when you are taking your rest at night.
• Defend the poor, and help them that cannot defend themselves.
• Do nothing to hurt or offend anyone alse.
• Be prepared to fight in the defense of your country.
• At whatever you are working, try to win honor and a name for honesty.
• Never break your promise.
• Maintain the honor of your country with your life.
• Rather die honest than live shamelessly.
• Chivalry requires that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace; and to do good unto others.

I've made copies of this for each scout and had the troop recite it for my scoutmaster minute. Then, I say that the Scout Handbook from the 1940s has this code in it. Even though the BSA is 100 years old, the roots of our Scout Oath go back much, much further than that.