Leadership For the Church Educational Ministr

Abstract

"The Sunday School Movement was founded in England by Robert Raikes, a newspaper proprietor, who in 1789 started; a school in Gloucester. The kind of school it was, in times when children worked twelve hours a day in factories and mines, is suggested by an entry in the old Minute Book of a Sunday school still in existence today after one hundred and fifty years, which included an account for two dozen inkstands, two dozen canes, one hundred quill pens, spelling book, and "bread, cheese, beer, etc., for singers"! The lead given by Raikes was strengthened first by the Sunday School Society founded by William Fox in 17.85, and later, when Sunday schools had been established throughout the Kingdom and had already taken root in America, by the interdenominational Sunday School Union formed in 1803. After a century of developing but ungraded children's work, -George Hamilton Archibald, the Canadian pioneer of teacher training in the Sunday school, succeeded in introducing various reforms and making religious teaching methods more educational in character"