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The day draws attention to women's day three female pioneer in the Swedish revival story. Learn about Sunday school pioneer Betty Ehrenborg and Maria Lagergren vintage who took Sunday school idea further vintage and started schools. And if Betty Ehrenborgs daughter, Hedvig Posse, who on their own initiative started vintage Swedish Church's first missionary vintage hospital.
Betty Ehrenborg wrote the lyrics to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". She also wrote many hymns, including "Just as I am," "Rock cleft for me" and "Here a source flow." She translated the book "Pilgrim's Progress" into Swedish.
In Betty Ehrenborgs parlor sat a Sunday in 1851 a stack-maker, a wig-maker, a carpenter, a tanner and a dozen to. They had in common that they wanted to start Sunday schools, and now they had come to the noble lady Betty to learn how to do.
When she visited the World Exhibition in London in 1851, she came in contact with the English churches, Sunday schools. It was the beginning of the course. The result would be many Sunday schools vintage in addition to the country.
1853 Betty became a teacher at the newly established Deaconess Institute in Stockholm, today Ersta Deaconess. Baron Johan August vintage Posse took the help of her with the newspaper he founded, Wäktaren. Three years later they married.
Betty Posse became a central figure in the 1800s revival movement. She had a wide network of contacts, including with Fredrika Bremer and CO Rosenius, as well as with the revival Christians in many parts of the country. The greatest importance was her Sunday vintage School emergence. She collaborated with post paver Per Palmqvist, vintage who started the first Sunday school in Sweden in 1851. On his publishers pushed her songs, propaganda tracts for Sunday school and booklets that were used as premiums in the Sunday schools.
Sunday School featured at this time except bible teaching also geography, biblical history, singing, spelling and arithmetic. It was early technical means slate, letter games and so-called Magic Lantern.
From 1862 to the turn drove Baptists independent school, known as the living schools. They did not want the children to be taught in Luther's catechism, and although priests and parish council tried to stop them grew schools. They also consolidated the Baptist worldview in their children.
In 1862 she started vintage a roving schools in several communities northwest of Sundsvall. The following year she taught 360 children. 1869 reported a colporteur of the existence of a spiritual movement which was born souls as the dew of the dawn of a couple of places where Maria Lagergren ran school. She was also a key figure at the start of Sunday schools in Medelpadsgatan.
There is no evidence that Mary was married, and when his son Carl Gustaf was born in 1846 he was adopted by his uncle. He was 14 years old when Mary was reversed, and took such a strong impression of her assurance vintage of faith he was baptized, despite the threat of being thrown out of the foster home.
He later became the first Baptist who graduated vintage from high school and a senior pastor of the Baptist Union. In 1883 he became pastor of his mother's ward in Sundsvall, and for 33 years from 1889 he was Rector of the Swedish-American Baptist preacher school in Chicago.
Hedvig was with when he died. She then wrote a letter to the board of the Swedish Church's mission, told of his call to bring hednabarnen to the Christian faith, and offered to be liable for the cost of travel to