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Excerpt from The Sunday Schools of Wales: Their Origin, Progress, Peculiarities,& Prospects
IN the year 1880 the centenary Of the establishment of the Sunday Schools of England was celebrated. Many Welsh schools, in the exuberance of their zeal for the cause of Sunday Schools, and deeply sympathizing with every movement. Tendingto extend their usefulnesss, but quite ignorant of the fact that the Sunday Schools of the Principality had an origin and a history entirely apart. From those of England, heartily joined in the English celebration. These, at the time, never expected that any future call would be made upon their esteem and loyalty in connection with their own. Others, though having a faint idea that their system was indigenous and in many respects unique, still could not resist the strong impulse which they felt for honouring the institution, at the same time tacitly understanding that if it should be decided to hold a centenary for Wales, their demonstration would be none the less hearty and patriotic because of the fore stalled outburst of 1880. A third class, punctually enlightened to some extent by their leaders in the history of their own schools, remained content to rejoice in spirit only with their English brethren, reserving the outward manifestation until the time when it should be agreedviii preface.
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