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THE FIRST SABBATH-SCHOOL

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 12.

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THE FIRST SABBATH-SCHOOL.

In Haydon’s “Dictionary of Dates,” Harper’s edition, is found the following:—
“The first Sabbath-school was founded by Ludwig Hacker, as early as 1740-47, at Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Penn., among the German Seventh-day Baptists there. The school-house was used as a hospital after the battle of Brandywine, fought in 1777. The first Sunday-school was instituted at Gloucester, England, about 1781-82, by Robert Raikes, a printer.”
“In England the Sabbath day [Sunday] was ordained to be kept holy from Saturday at 3 P. M. to Monday at break of day.”