Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-16
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
FOUNDED IN 1881 eY A PRINTER
or MISUNDERSTANDING.

>h'p why II
scheme Attracted General Attention.
Historical Items of Interest.
SUNDAY schools were founded about the
close Of the year ISL by Robert Iaalkes, a
printer IN Gloucestershirc. Business lead
ing hiIu into the suburbs Of the town
inhabited by the lowest class of people, he
was surprised by seeing multitudcs Of
miserably ragged children. who made the
Sabbath day "a carnival Of noise and riot.
IN which cursing and swearing had IA large
part.
TO check this proclamation Of the Lords
day he engaged -four women teachers OF
week day schools, 10 instruct such chill
dren rs he should send them on the Sunday
IN reading and the church catecLism. for
which they were TO receive one shilling
each.
a visible Improvement being effected in
a short time, both in the manners and
morals Of the children, Mr.. Raikes' scheme
attracted general attention. Her majesty
Qaecn Charlotte admitted him 70 an audi
eAce. and expressed high appreciation of
his plan Numerous schools formed on
the sane model sprang UP in the principal
towns. and u society. under high patron
age, was formed in London in 1885 for the
establishment and support Of Sunday
schools throughout the kingdom. This
was the FIRST stage of the Sunday school.
GRATUir0Us INSTRUCTION.
a great impeachment TO prosperity was
tho expense of hiring the teachers. 1t Is
not certain who first conceived the idca Of
Grntuitous Instruction, but this in time
came about. aud the result was that bv the
year 1900 teaching in the Sunday school
was almost universally without remunera
tiOn.
Ia 1903 the Sunday School union was
formed, which, by its numerous publica.
tions, agents and branch societies in the
different parts of the kingdom, exercised
n wide influence, Tie Institute of the
Church of ENGLAND, which operated in a
BIKE manner, Is OF Il similar date.
Scotland boasts Of Sunday schools as
carly as 1852 But it was not till 1855.
when h Society for Promoting Rclici
ons knowledge among the Poor was
formed. that they were publicly rccog
pized, nor until 1927, when the first Free
Sunday school society was organized,
That free Sunday schools became general
AT hrst these met with considerable Oh
position from portions Of tho ecclesiasti
cal CONT, but this soon vanished, and
sunday school unions existed utmost OF
the largo towns.
Sunday schools in Ireland had been In a
measure anticipated In County Down in
1910, bat the system pursued by Mr.
lfaikes was not adopted til about l,cj.
since which date is system has been
similar TO that If Englanl
In Ireland the Sunday School society
",s Established - 1903.
The Roman Catholics, Ia The United
Kingdom at least. Lave uumcrous SUNDAY
schools.
THE FIST ~
Tho First Day or Sunday School society,
formed In Philadelphia il 1881. l. The FIRST
permanent Sunday school! organization in
the GNitcd states of which there i trust
worthy record Il Wa composed Of menbara
~ different denominations. including the
Society Of Friends It's constitution re.
quired that reading and writing from the
Bible and such other religious and moral
books Us the society approved should far.
pisll the course OF instruction. The New
York Sunday School union was organized IN
1915, the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult
School union one yc,t late. These three