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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Well, then," some will say, "let our children receive, in Sunday-schools, that amount of religious culture and instruction which the State says shall not be given in the school, and which is believed to be so essential in the education of the young." The Sunday-schools are nothing but so many "Poor-man's soothing plasters" on Christian consciences.
We can find no Scripture for Sunday-schools, Bible classes, prayer-meetings, weekly meetings, hireling preachers, missionaries or missionary societies." So they kept to their monthly meetings and monthly preaching.
We ascended the boys' staircase, through the master's bedroom into the boys' dormitories, looked into the clothing store well supplied from English and Canadian Sunday-schools, then down our own staircase, into the dining-room, out again into the hall, through our kitchen and the Institution kitchen, and the matron's sitting-room, into the girl's work-room and dormitories, and so back to the dining-hall.
The same letter states that the mayor had prohibited the opening of Sunday-schools for the instruction of blacks, under a penalty of five hundred dollars for the first offence, and for the second, death."
One of these, I think, is sung in Sunday-schools to this day. Then there was, and still exists, the "Gates Ajar" funeral piece.
These Sunday-schools, not less than twenty thousand in number, and superintended by one hundred and fifty thousand teachers, count more than a million of pupils, of which ten thousand at least are adults. Calculate the power of such an instrument! People read enormously in America. There is a library in the meanest cabin of roughly-hewn logs, constructed by the pioneers of the West.
I don't think I have made it sufficiently clear that besides the Sunday-schools and services I have mentioned there are night-schools every evening in the week, which are fully attended by Kafir servants, and where they are first taught to read their own language, which is an enormous difficulty to them.
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Mrs. Burton's wonder was allayed by the explanation, although her horror was not, and she made haste to say: "Boys, we will have a little Sunday-school, all by ourselves, in the parlor, immediately after breakfast." "Hooray!" shouted Budge. "An' will you give us a ticket an' pass around a box for pennies, just like they do in big Sunday-schools?"
After breakfast, I went out alone again, intending to hunt up some of the Sunday-schools and see how this generation of pupils might compare with their progenitors who had sat with me in those places and had probably taken me as a model though I do not remember as to that now.
He solved the question for them, however, by asserting that he intended to give all the scholars of all the Sunday-schools in the neighbourhood a treat, and of course meant to include Netta's school among the rest unless, of course, she possessed so much exclusive pride as to refuse to join him. There was no resisting Captain Lee. As well might a red-skin attempt to stop Niagara.
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