The Presbyterian church of Frankford, 1770-1920 . y attended church andthen the Sunday-school was continued until five-thirty. Boys and girls were kept separate andclasses were composed of five or six pupils movement grew rapidly and within eight years250,000 pupils were enrolled. An English historian,referring to the effect of the work of Raikes, writes: It was then that the moral, the philanthropic, thereligious ideals which have moulded English societyinto its present shape, first broke the spiritual torporof the eighteenth century. From this the modernSunday-school has developed,
The Presbyterian church of Frankford, 1770-1920 . y attended church andthen the Sunday-school was continued until five-thirty. Boys and girls were kept separate andclasses were composed of five or six pupils movement grew rapidly and within eight years250,000 pupils were enrolled. An English historian,referring to the effect of the work of Raikes, writes: It was then that the moral, the philanthropic, thereligious ideals which have moulded English societyinto its present shape, first broke the spiritual torporof the eighteenth century. From this the modernSunday-school has developed, spreading its in-fluence over the entire world. The introduction ofthe Sunday-school into America in definite, aggres-sive form took place during the early years of thenineteenth century. Here the Sunday-school fromthe beginning was a church school, and the work ofBible teaching was directed and fostered by thechurch authorities. In this respect it was quitedifferent from the ragged school founded byRobert Raikes. During the years that followed,. Members of the first class in the FrankfordPresbyterian Sunday-school.
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