Sunday Schools

Sunday-Schools, founded by Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester, in 1781, for instructing and influencing children and young people on Sunday. At first the teachers were paid, but now most of the teaching is gratuitous, the change having become general at the beginning of this century, The teaching is becoming exclusively religious (as has always been the case in the Scotch Sabbath-schools) with the spread of secular education. In America Sunday schools were instituted in 1816, and rapidly spread.