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Excerpt from The Instructor, Vol. 71: March, 1936 Imagine gentlemanly Robert Raikes doing the first tracting. For. _sunday School. He particularly liked small boys, chucking them under the _chin and smiling. Visiting the parents of poor children, he overcame obice tions by saying that if their clothes were suitable for the street, they were suitable for his Sunday. School - if the children. Would come with clean hands and faces. He sought out only boys for his first Sunday School. Girls attended later. Ou this first Sunday you could have Seen him trooping to S_.t Catherine' s Street with his' ragged regiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.