Show the greatest sunday school in ill the world oa ft a high hill in the midst of ot the most thickly populated par eliod of 1116 city at oi Stockport port eo land standa an immense ira menee four our tory hrick brik building build iQ at once the pride bride of itie town and the mecca of sunday school pilgrims pil from livery quarter otha globe thi this ls e the world renowned stockport Stoc kpor snoday ay School famous alike tor for ita its I 1 gigantic size aud ila its able history extending over a beroid of oue one hundred bundred aad and eix all teen years car with a present en A over 5 and a tol 11 0 record of u and fars trained within ilo ito its U sra er with wilh out a llod lc in the annal i ul effort abu now widely baduf mattered red ia in all porta of he M arid and it ie is tu to know lat hun hundreds dreda of them hav have tho the atlantic to mak imme the mi t el st notable of tho old pupil jn ill 0 thib cunley is air mr thomae i d a batted ratted r ened merchant chaat of now york city to 16 achrol ie is eo so grat arat that for of thirty one consecutive 8 ammen he lie bea biti left bid beautiful home in brooklyn Bio bi oklyn and crowded be the ocean lo 10 take part iu III the be of the t I 1 t 0 61 iti it ato sto ij t 1 fanmous institution dui dalti back to ns 1764 buur yeara years ae robett o 0 bia his notable in sooty booty alley it VM was vaginally cini nully for the 4 f the I 1 lie laboring I 1 aboe condition wad waa at that simir pitiful in tho t in ilin ih eyrly aly danei were nip loyed at t the rate 1 of one oue eh abill illioff izig and c pense n S u n baid there were wt tc two lasting item ican nine t cuck in the diomid aloft gitig tu to feln elle bajil 1 acm i na ne tu to I 1 be hokit boor j worship wor thip when mhd pupils were to eithur eita r church or chapel returning to the school until a x the curriculum embraced no noi only bible eludy study bat but reading writing and spelling arithmetic bearly added in the case of a few who distinguished distinguish il rhems alves by diligence and good acha lot these secular studies were render tender ed appropriate for the sabbath by the religious character of the ex excises thus reading waa was taught by buch sentences tip god ia is love god ie is just aaa and the lord is 13 good to all bad sad writing wae was practiced by the copy ingot hymns and Snip 8 ture theae these peculiar features fea tarea of tl tip e school which from an american point of view are r novel were the result of social c condi ondi tiona in england at that beroid since there liaa a general belief that the lower orders of 0 so society biety wore incapable of improvement and that education would unfit them for menial bervice vice no pro vision v ilicia whatever waa was made for their instruction by either church or state add adad A to this wrong were all the horrors of the factory system under which child life waa was a veritable condition of slave ry ryo unsurpassed by that of serf or degro after the introduction of machinery children of all ages sometimes even babies of three and four our years many of them im ported from the foundling asyl atthe of london were regularly employed in ili he the factories working from twelve to sixteen houra hours a day on sundie sunday tl ti ey were turned loose in the fields and lanee lanes where they spent tha the day in iu drinking ambling gambling and such debasing deba ains as bull bailing and cockfighting cock fighting more store neglect ad etian the cattle in the field they grew up physically degener ate mentally ignorant and nor mor ally ity carrupt it wim this terrible agate of affairs hat that it ii robert ri ke kes the illustrious founder of sunday schools to open ilia first school in 1780 for the rugged wada of gloucester hia his abowd purpose beina to o 0 give thero them a seme of religion iou and ard enough edu cation to read the now teat tests ment three yenn later hl bia a ex pediment peti erimena eri ment having proved suc cees ful he gave his hiis scheme to the lh world through the columns of hia his paper the gloucester alou ester journal when thia this report remlin react ird stock port some influential mn m n of the place we the paine lines and in III november 1781 opened a number of jofs schools sih I 1 placing pinc 1 ing tarui under tinder the control of a R committee ommittee c representing th ih various of lie the chaitt QI oil church ono of these a bools outgrew the rest becoming it n to op arlo institution in 1791 end sad a few enre later letter tk tak int tha name S stockport tock port sunday school though the thil school bad many fo foun derf nil all of whom are honor d for their work thera is one rune mr joseph moyer son of Nial malthew Malth thew fw of portwood Purt wood I 1 liall memory clen jory is revered alj with ih ill school boul bebau in 1790 1190 at the age ge of bibic ju on his re turn from n art achrol in chester aa h re he bid hid received an e bellm bul lm iiii 10 lit it u officer ill in ibe the su schoot ich ool urged lim bim to und nd otake hii his hi s duties for ft few weeks seeks i bd lid took a Ba becoming comicK deeply ply lie stayed on to the cud of bli his tilt J jo 0 iut jul 0 his ilia best energies to the tile work sixty five years A devo devoutly ully rel igona ons man wonderfully gifted 1 in prayer aud and endowed with a rate power of re quinns inu ini hie his influence ie is inde indelible libl sti stamped roped everything conc ted with the schol asa a gutig arumn be we very and tind vely annd some aud and inspired the scholars sholars wajih ith unbounded and admiration R aa ha lie cuma came sunday after sunday dressed dressen in the wee bre breede ehe bilk sill stocking silver buckles and powdered lair hair gene rally worn by the gintry sot of that period the erect erection iou of the Luil guilding ding now occupied by ilia the stockport sunday sanday wie wis begun o 0 in 1605 the corner stone beang laid on oto june 15 in 1803 1603 when tb school numbered about time thousand and wo wad getting ettia out at the elbana for room it was proposed to provide a permanent home for it by the dreeli n of a building capable of ing four thousand echo scho laia lats the estimated coat cost was bjur nii pound and subscribers were quaintly informed that I 1 lr fir every pound laid oat room would be provided for thy the perl 1 emual edica tion of one child completion of the building resulted lu in large acquisitions to the member hip and in it bocaline iary jary to enlarge it by the he addition at the rear in 1881 ia ta honor of the centenary cea cen it was edtill aurther enla colard by the erection of a separate for the infant school the building as it now elands is an immense structure of brick devoid of architectural beauty or artistic adornment but imposing in ita its monstrous sia size and a model of convenience it from f f om seventy to eighty blass 1 rooms or halls and anti a great assembly roem known aa as the large room which occupies tre creater greater purl part of the third and fourth stories and haa has a beating capacity of three thou bind d the room ie fit a most inte interesting chice 1 it is 1 virtually virtual lv the kallery gallery of the Ei for on ltd ita walla walls liany hang the portraits of those who have served the institution with distinction of them are tire of eminent faintere pain tere and all show the most nobl no ble benevolent faces continued in next isele |