Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 64
. No other decent place was open tothem. The next Sunday his house was crowded withthe same class of children. The idea of a free school on Sunday appealedto every Christian as a most hopeful plan for therescue of children from wickedness. It spreadthrough the town, through the shire, through… … every Sunday morning, the Bible story is told,without money and without price. In the staid old city of Gloucester they stillshow you the New Inn and the garden where theboys played, and the old brown house with itspeaked roof in which Robert Raikes, that long-ago morning, taught the first…
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