The Sunday School An Essay Etc

Author : Charles Reed
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ISBN 13 : 9781331233572
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Infant Class in the Sunday School written by Charles Reed and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Infant Class in the Sunday School: An Essay to Which the Committee of the Sunday-School Union Adjudged the First Prize in 1851 "In all the districts, great numbers of children who had been in regular attendance on Sunday schools for a period of from five to nine years, were found, on examination, to be not only altogether ignorant of Christian principles, doctrine, and precepts, but they knew nothing whatever of any of the events of Scripture History, nor anything even of the names most commonly occurring in the Scriptures." This passage occurs in a Government Report, published a few years since. I do not quote it, as a believer in its truth, for my belief respecting this sweeping declaration is, that it is most untrue; it is a libel on the noble and self-sacrificing exertions of my fellow-labourers in this department of service, the Sunday School Teachers of Great Britain, to whom I respectfully dedicate this little volume. I have, however, another object in view in placing it at the head of these prefatory remarks, for my conviction is, that though false as a whole, the assertion may have some truth in it, and if this be so, it were well that we should seek to profit by it. That the Sunday School system is not effect, no one will venture to deny, and that in much it has failed, we are all prepared, in deep humility, to admit. If there be failure, there must be some adequate cause. What is this cause? This is a question which in the present day eminently concerns us. In the midst of conflicting opinions, I may perhaps be allowed to ask, whether we have not committed a great mistake in limiting the invitation to our Sunday schools to children of seven or eight years of age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.