The Anglicans set up their own National schools that would act as Sunday schools and day schools. In some towns, the Methodists withdrew from the large Sunday school and built their own. Adults would attend the same classes as the infants, as each was instructed in basic reading. Financed through subscription, large buildings were constructed that could host public lectures as well as providing classrooms. The Sunday school movement was cross-denominational. By 1835, the Sunday School Society had distributed 91,915 spelling books, 24,232 New Testaments and 5,360 Bibles. In 1785, 250,000 English children were attending Sunday school. The society has published its textbooks and brought together nearly 4,000 Sunday schools. Pastor Thomas Stock and Raikes have thus registered a hundred children from six to fourteen years old. The latter had been touched by articles of Raikes, on the problems of youth crime. The Sunday School Society was founded by Baptist deacon William Fox on 7 September 1785 in Prescott Street Baptist Church of London. He wrote an article in his journal, and as a result many clergymen supported schools, which aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing, cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible.
Robert Raikes, editor of the Gloucester Journal, started a similar one in Gloucester in 1781. William King started a Sunday school in 1751 in Dursley, Gloucestershire. Sunday schools were first set up in the 18th century in England to provide education to working children. On days when Holy Communion is being celebrated, however, some Christian denominations encourage fasting before receiving the Eucharistic elements. Sunday school classes may provide a light breakfast. Members often receive certificates and awards for participation, as well as attendance.
Many Sunday school classes operate on a set curriculum, with some teaching attendees a catechism. Churches of many Christian denominations have classrooms attached to the church used for this purpose. Sunday school classes usually precede a Sunday church service and are used to provide catechesis to Christians, especially children and teenagers, and sometimes adults as well. Other religions including Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism have also organised Sunday schools in their temples and mosques, particularly in the West.
Ī Sunday school is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Christian in character. Baptist Sunday school group in Amherstburg, Ontario.
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