Robert Raikes, 1881: Journalist and Philanthropist, a History of the Origin of Sunday-Schools (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Robert Raikes, 1881: Journalist and Philanthropist, a History of the Origin of Sunday-Schools

A preaching friar settles himself in every village, and builds a pulpit, which he calls Newspaper. - carlyle. Loucester, in the 9215131 part of the eightsenth century, was not the handsome, well-kept city it is now. It was then unpaved, nu drained, unsavoury, and, by necessary consequence, unhealthy and incommodious. The houses were for the most part low, irregular, and projecting Instead of the numerous ships which now crowd the docks, an occasional vessel from Portugal or France deposited a few casks at the quay, and a Wherry to Worcester went twice a week. As to locomotion, even the Flying Coaches which subsequently carried adventurous passengers to London in the course of two or three days, had not then commenced their journeys. Nor was the moral or social aspect of affairs more pleasing. The streets swarmed with rogues and vagabonds.

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