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Sunday school


Sunday school

n.1. A school, generally affiliated with a church or synagogue, that offers religious instruction for children on Sundays.2. The teachers and pupils of such a school.

Sunday school

n 1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a. a school for the religious instruction of children on Sundays, usually held in a church hall and formerly also providing secular educationb. (as modifier): a Sunday-school outing. 2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the members of such a school

Sun′day school`


n. 1. a school for religious instruction on Sunday. 2. the members of such a school. [1775–85]

Sunday school

A school for religious instruction, usually held on church premises.
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Noun1.Sunday school - school meeting on Sundays for religious instructionSunday school - school meeting on Sundays for religious instructionSabbath schoolschool - an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
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主日学校

Sunday

(ˈsandi) noun the first day of the week, the day following Saturday, kept for rest and worship among Christians. 星期日 星期日Sunday best/clothes the smart garments that a person wears for special occasions. 禮拜服,節日服 节日服装Sunday school a school attended by children on Sundays for religious instruction. 主日學校 主日学校a month of Sundays a very long time. 很久 很久

Sunday school


Sunday school,

institution for instruction in religion and morals, usually conducted in churches as part of the church organization but sometimes maintained by other religious or philanthropic bodies.

In England during the 18th cent., occasional efforts were made by charitable individuals to provide some education in religious matters as well as secular instruction to children of the poor. Probably the first to be called a Sunday school was that started (1780) by Robert RaikesRaikes, Robert
, 1735–1811, English philanthropist. In 1780 he organized a Sunday school, primarily for poor children, who were taught to read and to spell to enable them to read the Bible.
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 for factory children in Gloucester. The curriculum largely consisted of simple lessons in reading and spelling in preparation for reading the Bible, and memorizing Scripture passages and hymns. The plan was copied in other places; sometimes Saturday instruction in writing and arithmetic was added to that on Sunday. An important educational movement was thus started; by 1795 the Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools had helped found more than 1,000 schools.

In 1803 the London Sunday School Union was founded to promote the extension of schools with voluntary teachers. This organization published simple lesson plans, catechisms, spellers, and other aids. Unions were developed in Ireland and Scotland. In 1862 a general Sunday school convention was held in London, at which a program was initiated for extending the movement to the Continent.

In the United States there is evidence that instruction in the Scriptures was given to children on Sundays at Plymouth in 1669 and at Roxbury, Mass., in 1674, but it was not until 1786 that a Sunday school patterned on Raikes's plan was founded in Hanover co., Va., by the Methodist preacher Francis AsburyAsbury, Francis
, 1745–1816, Methodist bishop in America, b. England. The Wesleyan conference in London sent him in 1771 as a missionary to America, where he promoted the growth of the circuit rider system that proved so eminently suited to frontier conditions.
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. The American Sunday-School Union, formed (1817) among various churches of the East, determined to establish Sunday schools as rapidly as possible in the pioneer communities of the Mississippi valley. This project met with wide support and considerable success.

In 1832 a national convention of American Sunday school workers was held. At the convention of 1872 a plan of uniform lessons was adopted in cooperation with the British Sunday School Union, and from that time the movement was international. The first World Sunday School Convention met (1889) in London; in 1907 its name was changed to the World's Sunday School Association, and in 1947 to the World Council of Christian Education. It has units in many countries; the North American unit is the International Council of Religious Education. The arrangement of periodic world Sunday school conventions and aid in leadership training and curriculum are among the chief concerns of the council.

Bibliography

See studies by R. Swann (1961), E. W. Rice (1917, repr. 1971), and R. W. Lynn and A. Boylan (1988).

Sunday school

a. a school for the religious instruction of children on Sundays, usually held in a church hall and formerly also providing secular education b. (as modifier): a Sunday-school outing
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Sunday school


  • noun

Synonyms for Sunday school

noun school meeting on Sundays for religious instruction

Synonyms

  • Sabbath school

Related Words

  • school
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