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English Sunday Schools

Child painting Beginning in a small way, he opened two English Sunday Schools, one in the parish of a concerned clergyman, The Rev. Thomas Stock and another in Sooty Alley. Like so many great movements of God, success did not come easily. Robert Raikes' school closed after only six months because of discipline problems. Raikes however continued to put his ideas into print and this caught the attention of the magnetic preacher, John Wesley.

Wesley was greatly impressed and called the English Sunday School "one of the noblest specimens of charity which have been set on foot in England since the times of William the Conqueror." The great Methodist leader advertised them and soon schools were springing up all over England and in Wales, Scotland and Belfast too.

"English Sunday Schools"

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