I was critiquing a few chapters for a friend of mine last week, and it led me to do some quick research–in which I learned something new, yay! =) Namely, about Sunday school.

The phrase Sunday school dates from 1783. However, it wasn’t religious instruction. On the contrary, it was regular school, offered on the one day a week poor children who worked in factories were free–Sunday. It began as a philanthropic movement, meant to educate England’s poorest to give them a hope at a better life.

So this school on Sunday would be teaching them reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. Though granted, the Bible was their primer, so there was still some spiritual lessons involved. =) The idea of Sunday School traveled across the pond during the Industrial Revolution and took up work in America too. But it wasn’t until the 1870s that it became a school time attached to church, whose sole objective was to teach Biblical principles. That was a change that happened first in America and then worked its way back to England.

Interesting, eh?

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