The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . obert Raikes retired from business in 1802; in 1804the freedom, of the city was conferred upon him; in1811 he died after an illness of scarce a half hours dura-tion. The children of his own school followed his bodyto the grave and sang Stmday-school hymns as they v/ent. 6 TJic Sunday-school He had seen his company of twelve boys grow to anarmy of a quarter of a million, the movement that heoriginated adopted in Wales, Scotland, Irelan
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . obert Raikes retired from business in 1802; in 1804the freedom, of the city was conferred upon him; in1811 he died after an illness of scarce a half hours dura-tion. The children of his own school followed his bodyto the grave and sang Stmday-school hymns as they v/ent. 6 TJic Sunday-school He had seen his company of twelve boys grow to anarmy of a quarter of a million, the movement that heoriginated adopted in Wales, Scotland, Ireland andAmerica. An experiment which now looks so simpleand so humble as that of trying to Itire these raggedchildren of wretchedness to the cathedral service andpaying some poor woman a shilling a day to teach them,resulted not only in a marked improvement in moralsamong the children of Gloucester and a general amend-ment of the condition of the city, but gave to thenineteenth century and the world the most potentinstrament for moral and religious advancement, to bepassed on to the tv/entieth century for a development^beyond the dreams of the most Water Carriers and Sellers in Jerusalem{From Glimpses of Bible Lands) Tlie Nineteenth Century Sunday-school
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