Robert Raikes

The founder of Sunday Schools

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 1720  297 635
 

Bookmark with words, portrait of Robert Raikes and image of first Sunday School building
Words:
Robert Raikes
THE FOUNDER
OF

Sunday Schools
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

image of
Robert Raikes

 
 
 
 
 

I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME,
AND THOSE THAT SEEK ME
EARLY, SHALL FIND ME.

 
 
 

image of
First Sunday School building

 
 
 

WHERE THE FIRST
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WAS
COMMENCED
IN THE YEAR
1780

Size of Silk:
13.3cm long by 4.5cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
White 
Comments:
Signed: "T.STEVENS COV.Y AND LONDON" on back at pointed end.
This bookmark was registered on 12 May 1880

Stevens logo and diamond registration mark on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark
Stevens logo and diamond registration mark woven on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark

 



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