An Address Delivered Before the Boston Sunday School Society; On the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sunday School Institution (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. I. Page 6. This account may be found in the fifteenth chapter of ' Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs Catharine Cappe, written by herself.' ? pp. 103? 109 of the American edition. II. Page 8. Charles Borromeo, was born in 1538, and was made archbishop of Milan by his uncle, Pope Pius IV. at the early age of 22 years. ? He died in 15S4. Eustace in his ' Classical Tour through Italy, ' speaks of the schools established by Borromeo in two passages, which as they are brief, I have copied from the second volume of the second edition, published in 1814. ' Many of his excellent institutions still remain, and among others that of Sunday schools; and it is both novel and affecting to behold on that day the vast area of the Cathedral filled with children forming two grand divisions of boys and girls ranged opposite each other, and these again subdivided into classes according to their age and capacities, drawn up between the pillars, while two or more instructors attend each class, and direct their questions and explanations to every little individual without distinction. A clergyman attends each class, accompanied by one or more laymen for the boys, and for the girls by as many matrons. The lay persons are said to be oftentimes of the first distinction. Tables are placed in different recesses for writing. This admirable practice, so beneficial and so edifying, is not confined to the Cathedral or even to Milan. The pious archbishop extended it to every part of his extensive diocese, and it is observed in all the parochial churches of the Milanese, and of the neighboring dioceses, of such at least as are sufiiagansof Milan.' p. 319. 'In the diocese of Milan, or to speak more properly, in the vast tracts of country included between the Alps and the Appenines, and sub...