THE FOUNDER OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
■ CENTENARY CELEBRATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 6. Tbe centenary of the death of Robert Raikes, tlio founder of Sunday schools, was celebrated in London and Gloucester.
The founder of Sunday Schools, was born in Gloucester iu 1735. He was long editor and publisher of the "Gloucester Journal," and during a lifo of philanthropy became intimately acquainted with the destitute and demoralised stale of tho children in and about his native town, then a great centre of the pin manufacture. In 1781 ho engaged four teachers in dame-schools to give Sunday instruction in reading and tho Church catechism, and in a short time the scheme met with a larger share of success. A letter by Raikes in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for June, 1781, led to the formation of numerous schools on tho same model, and of a society under high patronage for tho establishment of similar schools throughout tho kingdom. This society expended iSIOOO on teachers ill fourteen years. Raikes died April 5, 1811, and not long after his death tho Sunday-school scheme was vastly extended by tho teaching being made gratuitous.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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187THE FOUNDER OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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