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Show First Sunday-school in the World. H fl Iti recounting the ministrations of jfl John Wesley in Ucorgh:, where the JH famous prouoher sowed the Hint seeds if II Methodism ii. Ameren, the Rev. J. R ' Keott, D. D., in the June Ladies' Home H Journal, claims that Wesley established HH the first Sunday-school in the woild, at ssS ' Savannah. In connection nitli liia H other hiDors, which weie indeed H ' prodigious, Wesley soon after his arrival III in Georgia, in 1730, began to provide lor H '. the Sunday-School instruction of the Bj parish. His devotion for ohiidtonut HE times almoHt amounted to infatuation. !Hj Children wure likewise equally attached jHj to him, us shown in tVieir intercourse H with liim. Both on week-days and Hj . Sabbuths ho gave no little attention to H educational work. As a preliminary H labur on the Sabbath, before the evening jH service, he requited them to convene in H! the church, at which time he catechised H them thoroughly and lurnished them Si With additional teaching trom the Bible j itself. |