The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . Rev. K. B. Tylbr. The Jews Wailing Place, Jerusalem io8 Conventions Progress and Prophecy: An Interpretation C. R. BLACKALL. It will be evident to any careful observer that Ameri-can Sunday-school work has been marked by distinctstages or periods, each gradually shading into the suc-ceeding one, and each a promise and a prophecy. In itsbeginning it was spontaneous and sporadic, seedlings ofold-world attainments, in efforts of an
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . Rev. K. B. Tylbr. The Jews Wailing Place, Jerusalem io8 Conventions Progress and Prophecy: An Interpretation C. R. BLACKALL. It will be evident to any careful observer that Ameri-can Sunday-school work has been marked by distinctstages or periods, each gradually shading into the suc-ceeding one, and each a promise and a prophecy. In itsbeginning it was spontaneous and sporadic, seedlings ofold-world attainments, in efforts of an educationalcharacter yet undefined, while communities were widelyseparated and transportation was undeveloped. Sympathy in a common cause drew men and womenof like minds into accord in efTorts to instruct andspiritually influence untaught children; this crystallizedinto union work and union lessons. It was the periodof union effort, the era of question books and mem-orizing of scripture passages. The dominating agencyof that period was the American Sunday-School Union,whose active agents planted schools wherever it wasjDracticable, and awakened the churches to unwontedacti
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