![]() Pastor Thomas Stock and Raikes have thus registered a hundred children from six to fourteen years old. The latter had been touched by articles of Raikes, on the problems of youth crime. The Sunday School Society was founded by Baptist deacon William Fox on 7 September 1785 in Prescott Street Baptist Church of London. He wrote an article in his journal, and as a result many clergymen supported schools, which aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing, cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible. Robert Raikes, editor of the Gloucester Journal, started a similar one in Gloucester in 1781. William King started a Sunday school in 1751 in Dursley, Gloucestershire. Sunday schools were first set up in the 18th century in England to provide education to working children. ![]()
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