Samuel I. Prime - It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools a

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

- Samuel I. Prime

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

topic: Children, School, Sunday, Sunday School, Elevating