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The Boys' Brigade ('''BB''') is the world's first uniformed Youth Organisation . The idea for this interdenominational Christian organisation was conceived by William Alexander Smith . Following its inception in Glasgow in 1883 , the BB quickly spread across the United Kingdom and became a worldwide organisation by the early 1890s.1 OBJECT, MOTTO AND EMBLEM The object of the Boys' Brigade is ''"The advancement of Christ's kingdom among Boys and the promotion of habits of Obedience, Reverence, Discipline, Self-respect and all that tends towards a true Christian manliness."'' Except for the addition of the word "obedience" in 1893, the object has remained unchanged from the beginning.2 When designing the Brigade's motto and crest, William Smith referred directly to in the King James Version of the Bible, "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast..." |
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