The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . the most part out ofIity for their degraded conditionand apprehensions for the secur-ity of society, and were fruitful ingood results. Only one of themwent beyond the alleviation ofimmediate ills and grew into amovement. That Robert Raikes became thefounder of the Sunday-schoolwhile Mofifat, Webb, Stock, Crampton and others whowere engaged in the same work — some of them beforehim and with perhaps larger local success — did notexceed
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . the most part out ofIity for their degraded conditionand apprehensions for the secur-ity of society, and were fruitful ingood results. Only one of themwent beyond the alleviation ofimmediate ills and grew into amovement. That Robert Raikes became thefounder of the Sunday-schoolwhile Mofifat, Webb, Stock, Crampton and others whowere engaged in the same work — some of them beforehim and with perhaps larger local success — did notexceed their local limitations, is due in part to Raikespersonality, but more to the special facilities affordedby his business and its connections. Robert Raikes, whose personality has been recoveredfor us by his latest biographer,* was bom in 1736, theson of a Gloucester printer and editor, and inherited hisfathers occupation and position. * Biographical Notes collected by Joseph Harris. Unpublished Lettersbv Robert Raikes, Letters from the Raikes Family; edited by Henry Harris,with an introduction by Dean Farrar. — New York. E. P. Button & Geo. R. Merrill, 2 The Sunday-school He is pictured as a fair, well-looking man, abovemediura height and comfortably stout, buckish and stylish in appearance, with his dark blue coatand white, buff or fancy waistcoat with silver-gilt bt;t-tons, cambric frills and ruffs, nankeen breeches, whitestockings and buckles in his shoes. He was accustomedto carry a stick in his hand when it was not occupiedwith his gold snuff-box or the plain horn one for commonuse. He wore a brown wig with a double row ofcurls, and a three-cornered hat. He was a man of gay and joyous temperament,an affectionate husband and father, of very transjoarentcharacter and social instincts. In his religious viewshe is reported as evangelical, with a leaning towardmysticism. He was a good business man, steady,methodical and very tenacious of purpose, kindly and
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