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LL"i"rrrr..r'_ T __- - f --tt i, mission to the parents, and instead _ 10:00 am to noon, and from 1:00 to concentrated upon tomorrow's adults, _ 5:00 pm each Sunday. In order to he tried a new experi-ryerre.th,at he i attend, the children had to have described as "botanizing in human . f clean hands and faces, and their hair ture " He determined to do something ', combed. na h, the vicious cycle of ignorance. I q . q . to brig vice and crimeo l It IS likely that this was the only time pover ' ' . . q i all week that all three of those cond-. It was natural that a main ilk: 3311;?3 ( itions were met. The curriculum in the s deeply concerne a ou 11188.ng ‘ schools cons1sted of' reading and WE: {E's needs, a man who loved child- writinrr, good morals, and relieion. penP a man who sought to be part of _, There is no question that the women, lil' 'solu‘tionv rather than part of the who tausht children whom Raikes describe eblem should answer his own question ( as "miserable little wretches", earned . 1l'iPeiliC1tef; or not anything could be 1 their shil1insrs. u n l done. His reply was fS‘éndElly 20:33]” Perhaps the most amazing thins is that And eventually, all 0 dng in d d , these schools accomplished what Raikes nations around the worl. ec oe an n , had intended! He discovered that the re-echoed the answer, Sunday Sehool. children were able to learn. They Girls ' were desperate to learn! He found that Bad Boys and Worse It was possible to maintain order and In 1780 Raikes began hls experiments,, i that the children were anxious to attend He avoided the temptation to "iTih ', and pieaie. Soon, Raikes started one , . relatively easy group. e c ose (, schoo a ter another. He was the , gighwgrst slum in Glou-EESteF' where '", motivating force behind the organization: 8 were bad and e girls were , of the schools, and he always financed l, :gisgoyRaikeS persuaded Mrs, Meredith l them out of his personal resources. 1 . be t . _ . . to allow the t:fv1.tdf1-Jlos1diti,'ra1f'hiyi,ms1ty" f In spitebf his success, Raikes did not kitchen. She . ' g achieve instant fame; . Many rejected b cause of the many chimney sweeps . . ' named. e there It is reported that some , the whole idea of the Sunday Schools. t who lived ere marched to Sunda 'i, Some relisious leaders maintained that of the boys W . t . y 1 his efforts were useless and that he School with logs ”Sled ti/ily/ig legs .to _ was engaged in sa.tere"ri.s..rious activity on -keep thy? from rummg dt ? proaect _ Sunday. Even his friends mocked his was so difficult that Mrs. Meridith gave , calline him and his children "Bobb ' . despair and the school was moved . ,,- d (4 . d us",' .c.' - ' . f,1Y up in . n of Mrs King where Ma F .111 ,~oose an AIS.? Ragged Resiment . to the kitche . , y _ Just as to-day, for every person with an Critchley was the ",l':iHii1ih'.2io 5:119 {aged-1; [ idea and the will to accomplish it, somewhat better, and IS SC oo as ed 9 there are many who will explain why It for about two years. i ' won't work and dutifully prophesy its l the first schools, Raikes gathered i. failure. Undaunted, Raikes continued _ It; ut 90 children who were employed in "r,, with the conviction that the concept of' 31: factories of Gloucester, and he i Sunday School was worth pursuing. gaid four women a shilling each (about i, Tn. spite of' these objections, the errowthI 25 cents) , to teach these children on _, of Sunday Schools surpassed the most I Sundays. Classes were conducted from 1: optimistic predictions. The visionand I 21. :3 commitment of' a sinsle individual with l l 3: _9'C) l I V k _