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unusual facts about Sunday Schools



Jeremiah Platt House

Ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church in 1888, Platt left KSAC in 1889 and traveled throughout Kansas establishing Sunday schools.


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American Missionary Fellowship

In addition to its primary work of starting Sunday schools in rural communities, the Sunday and Adult School Union became known for its publications and its ticket reward system for Sunday school students who memorized Scripture.

Annie Taylor Hyde

Taylor's mother, Jane Ballantyne Taylor, was a sister of Richard Ballantyne, the founder of the LDS Sunday Schools.

Ezekiel Blomfield

After four years training at Homerton Academy Ezekiel accepted a congregation at Wymondham in Norfolk where he preached and established Sunday schools and missionary societies.

Jack Hyles

In 1969, Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist's Sunday School.

Thomas Charles

He had learned of Robert Raikes's Sunday Schools before he left the Establishment, but he preferred his own system.