資料：1941年1月20日《Hongkong Daily Press》第5頁
DEAN WILSON AND REV. FR. BYRNE PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE CHIEF SCOUT
Memorial Services Held At Two Cathedrals
“We meet here today to thank God for the life and work of one of His servants who has fought a good fight, and who has finished his course,” said the Very Rev. J.L.Wilson, M.A., in the course of his address at the Memorial service held at St. John’s Cathedral yesterday, for the late Chief Scout, LIEUT. GENERAL LORD BADEN POWELL OF GILWELL, O.M., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.G.S., who died in his 83rd year at Nyeri, Kenya, on Jan. 8.
Representatives from all Rover Scouts, Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, and Girl Guides troops, and Wolf Cubs packs – with the exception of those of the Roman Catholic faith who attended a similar service at the Catholic Cathedral – were present under their respective leaders.
His Excellency the Acting Governor, Lieut. Gen. E.F.Norton, accompanied by Capt. S.H.Batty Smith, A.D.C., Major C.Champkin (Deputy Commissioner), Mr. G.S.P.Heywood (Asst. Commissioner of Rovers), Mr. D.A.Pockson (Asst. Commissioner and Hon. Secretary, Boy Scouts’ Association), Mrs. J.W.Bucknell (Asst. Colony Commissioner, Girl Guides’ Association), Mrs. F.E.E.Booker (Asst. Commissioner of Wolf Cubs), Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, Hon. Mr. W.N.Thomas Tam, Mr. G.A.Goodban (Headmaster, Diocesan Boys’ School) and the Rev. George May, were among those present.
GREATEST MEN
Referring to the life of Lord Baden Powell, Dean Wilson said that the late Chief Scout was one of the world’s greatest men. He founded a movement which will go on and on, not lacking the usual momentum so often seen in other movements which die when the founder is dead.
Lord Baden Powell’s movement was founded on the ideals of love, righteousness, and truth. His ambition was to set the world right – his courage was unbounded.
Truth, said the speaker, is a sacred thing but leaders of nations, and men in all ranks, will lie with ease. Friendship is a sacred thing but men will break it for their own gains. Peace and justice are sacred things, but leaders of men will sweep them aside for their own ends.
The Boy Scouts movement, and the Girl Guides movement, hold truth, friendship, and justice as their ideals. These movements are gaining in momentum – gaining force – towards the attainment of peace and justice in the world.
REAL VALUE
Dean Wilson then read a letter from the late Chief Scout, written after the death of his mother, wherein he acknowledged his debt to her for all she had done for him, and exhorting all his Scouts to fully appreciate the real value of a mother. Lord Baden Powell stated that it is a calamity to lose one’s mother, but it is a greater calamity for a mother to lose her son – not in death but through his becoming a waster and a good for nothing. The trouble she took to bring the son up, her loving care and attention during his childhood, her sorrows and pains, are all set at naught by such a son.
The Dean said that if the Scouts and Guides found some joy, some pleasure, a new meaning in life, they owed it all to their beloved leader, Lord Baden Powell.
In conclusion, the speaker said, “May his soul rest in peace, and may his work go on forever and ever in the hearts of boys and girls all over the world.”
After His Excellency had read the special Lesson, from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (Chap. VI, 10-18) the Scouts and Guides present renewed their Promise, made at the time of their admittance into the movement.
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
The Rev. Fr. George Byrne, S.J., President of the Catholic Boy Scouts, officiated at the Memorial service held at the Catholic Cathedral yesterday, when representatives from the 5th, 6th, and 7th Girl Guide troops, and the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 13th, 15th, 16th, and 17th troops of Boy Scouts, and members of the Sea Scouts, and Wolf Cubs, under their leaders, gathered to pay tribute to the memory of their great Chief.
In the course of his address, Fr. Byrne referred to Lord Baden Powell as “a man of genius” whose genius “impressed himself on the absent as if he was present, and who managed, in no small way to mould the eager young lives of those whom he had never seen.”
SPIRITUAL IDEAL
“His setting,” went on the speaker, “was the life of the backwoodsman: camps, kits, wolves, packs, cubs, story telling when the sun went down, and underneath it all the spiritual ideal which made of the mediaeval knight the champion of chivalry-” true to God and to the King.” He formed habits of honour, chivalry, service, faith.”
“Lord Baden Powell, as a soldier, may have followed a path of glory, as Chief Scout he followed a path of goodness. As we kneel today at this Memorial service, we pray, as the Church prays, that “his work may follow him.”
翻譯：
威爾遜主任牧師及伯恩神父一同哀悼已故童軍總領袖
追悼會於兩主教座堂舉行
「今天我們聚集此地，乃感謝 神賜予生命及成就予祂的忠僕，好讓他進行了一場完好的爭戰，並完成了他的一生」以上為尊敬的威爾遜牧師 MA文學碩士 (Rev. J.L.Wilson)於昨日在聖約翰座堂所述之悼詞，以悼念已故童軍總領袖，中將，基維爾勳爵貝登堡 OM功績勳章 GCMG聖米迦勒及聖佐治爵級大十字勳章 GCVO皇家維多利亞爵級大十字勳章 KCB巴斯爵級司令勳章 LLD法學博士 FRGS皇家地理學會會員 (Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell)，逝於1月8日肯尼亞尼耶利(Nyeri, Kenya)，享年83歲。
來自各羅浮童軍、童子軍、海童軍、女童軍、小狼的旅團，均派出代表領袖到場。(除了天主教會之童軍，他們在天主教會主教座堂舉行追悼)
同場出席人士包括護理總督岳桐中將(Lieut. Gen. E.F.Norton)、副官史密夫上尉(Capt. S.H.Batty Smith)、詹堅少校(Major C.Champkin)(副總監)、希活先生(Mr. G.S.P.Heywood)(助理羅浮童軍總監)、帕克森先生(Mr. D.A.Pockson)(助理總監暨義務秘書)、巴克內爾夫人(Mrs. J.W.Bucknell)(女童軍助理總監)、布克夫人(Mrs. F.E.E.Booker)(助理小狼總監)、尊敬的羅旭龢爵士(Sir Robert Kotewall)、尊敬的譚雅士先生(Mr. W.N.Thomas Tam)、葛賓先生(Mr. G.A.Goodban)(拔萃男書院校長)、梅佐治牧師(Rev. George May)。
偉大的人
當提及貝登堡勳爵的一生，威爾遜主任牧師形容這位已故童軍總領袖是世界上最偉大的人，因為他創辦的運動歷久彌新，不像其他運動轉瞬即逝。
貝登堡勳爵的運動建基於友愛、正義及真理，他的目的是將世界帶向正途，並展現出無比的勇氣。
主任牧師說，真理是神聖的，卻很容易被各國元首及各階層所歪曲；友愛是神聖的，卻很容易被自私所破壞；和平與正義是神聖的，卻很容易因為利益而被各領袖所拋棄。
童子軍運動，女童軍運動，皆建立於真理、友愛、正義的基石，並正在增強力量，為世界帶來和平與正義。
真正的意義
威爾遜主任牧師隨後讀出已故總領袖於其母親去世時所寫的一封信，感謝母親為他所做的一切，並告誡童軍必須了解母親真正的意義。貝登堡勳爵說，孩童失去母親是一場災難，但相對來說，母親失去孩子卻是一場更大的災難，這災難不致於令人死亡，卻可讓人失去生存的意義。母親為養育孩子所付出的心血，為成長所作出的照顧，悲傷與苦痛，一切都隨着失去孩子化為泡影。
主任牧師說，如童軍及女童軍能於生活中感到快樂，有趣，及找到生存的意義，一切須歸功於敬愛的貝登堡勳爵。
在總結時，主任牧師說「願他的靈魂得以安息，願他的願景得以永續留存於全世界之男童及女童心中」。
其後閣下引用了《以弗所書》第6章第10至18節經文，全體童軍及女童軍進行了覆誓，如同他們加入運動進行宣誓當刻。
天主教會主教座堂
公教童子軍會長伯恩神父 SJ耶穌會 (Rev. Fr. George Byrne)於昨日在天主教會主教座堂舉行追悼儀式，出席代表來自女童軍第5隊、第6隊、第7隊，以及童軍第1旅、第2旅、第11旅、第13旅、第15旅、第16旅、第17旅，海童軍成員，由領袖帶領着的小狼，一同到場追悼他們的偉大領袖。
在發表悼詞時，伯恩神父形容貝登堡勳爵是「一位天才」，因為「雖然他不在身邊，卻讓人感到他在身旁，並為素未謀面的人塑造了他們渴望的童年生活」。
精神理念
「他的表面，」神父說，「就像一個郊遊人士的生活：營地、背囊、大狼、小狼、幼狼，在黃昏述說着故事。而其背後的精神理念，是為中世紀的騎士培訓出騎士精神——效忠上帝及國王，建立個人信譽、騎士精神、助人精神、個人信仰」。
「貝登堡勳爵，作為軍人，他走上了榮譽之途；作為童軍總領袖，他走上了美德之途。我們今天一同在這追悼會上，一同跪拜，一同祈禱，如同教會所祈求，祈求「他的追隨者會走進他的路途」」。