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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X SUNDAY-SCHOOL FIELD WORK IN THE FIFTIES American life can hardly be said to have felt the influence of the Sunday-school before 1815-20. As late as 1814, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher preached his famous sermon on "The Waste Places of New England," in which he pointed out the good that might be done in meeting the religious destitution of his day by systematic religious instruction in the home. In 1828, when he republished the sermon, he added this note: "Since this was written, the system of Sabbath-schools has more than realized all that at the time had been asked or thought." Even as late as 1830, it was by no means generally accepted that a little child could be taught spiritual truths. Rote memorizing of catechism and of Scripture was by many supposed to be the nearest approach that the child could make to the truth contained in the words. This foreshortened view of the child-soul totally distorted the popular picture of the Sundayschool. "Who would have supposed," said President Francis Wayland of Brown University, speaking of " infant schools," then new in America, " that the memory, the judgment, the understanding, and the conscience of so young a child were already so perfectly formed, and so susceptible of improvement?" In 1824, in the Seventh Annual Report of the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union, the predecessor of the American Sunday-School Union, it was given as a striking fact that "in St. James' Sundayschool, Lancaster Pennsylvania, there are some pious children"--the word "children" appearing in italics. The report is distinguished also by this remarkable statement, that in one of the Delaware County schools in Pennsylvania "a boy has made a public profession of religion." When, a few years earlier than this, Harriet Lathr...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150313639
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150313633
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr

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