execution! It was merely, to hire respectable and intelligent women, at
the rate of a shilling each, to come, every Sabbath, and keep little
schools for the poor children whom he had seen at play. Perhaps the good
woman with whom Mr. Raikes had spoken in the street, was one of his new
school-mistresses. Be that as it might, the plan succeeded, and,
attracting the notice of benevolent people, was soon adopted in many
other dismal streets of London. And this was the origin of
Sunday-schools. In course of time, similar schools were established all
over that great city, and thence extended to the remotest parts of
England, and across the ocean to America, and to countries at a
world-wide distance, where the humble name of Robert Raikes had never
been pronounced.
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