— The Most Worth-While Thing —
In September 1940, as bombs fell on London and the world he had labored to build crumbled around him, an eighty-three-year-old soldier sat down in Kenya to write one last letter. He did not write about fear or the war. He wrote about happiness — and where it is actually found. Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, left us words that still ring true: the most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Come sit a while with his gentle wisdom.