A second look at the Sunday School

Abstract

"School" because, as long as the numbers are sufficiently high, and there are just enough teachers to cope, we seldom pause to take a second look, and honestly ask, what are we doing? There has been a change in the role of the Sunday School that the Church has not fully noticed and appreciated. The first Sunday Schools came into being to meet a real social need; they provided an elementary training for children who otherwise would have had no hope of education. Religious instruction was a part of this general education. The State has now assumed (to a greater or lesser extent) the responsibility of providing education"