The Reformation's influence on the history of the Christian Church in Great Britain was substantial, and without it, the religious education movement in England could not have begun. But the social changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century were as dramatic as the theological changes begun by Martin Luther three hundred years earlier. The first installment of this se- ries described some of these developments that influenced the founding of Sunday Schools; we pick up that story again.
Six young men started a Sabbath school with their own funds.
By the early 1800s, the Sunday School movement was alive and well in various parts of Great Britain and the United States, although there were places where these schools were not available.
