Memorial Services Planned for Robert Raikes in England

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

Memorial Services Planned for Robert Raikes in England

—The memorial services in honor of Robert Raikes, whose great fame rests on the fact that he was the founder of Sunday-schools, is to take place in England next June, under the patronage of the Queen. The exercises will be held in Westminster Abbey, in St. Paul's Cathedral, and at Lambeth Palace, and will be under the direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dean Stanley, the Lord Mayor, and other high dignitaries. The programme of exercises, so far as announced by the Committee, indicates that the occasion will be a very interesting one. Special arrangements are being made with some steamship lines to carry passengers from this country. It is now one hundred years since Robert Raikes opened the first Sunday-school, by employing women to teach a number of the ragged children of Gloucester.