Figure 1.--Here we see a waggon prepared to get the vwomen and children tom church and sunday school. Notice the chairs for the women. Click on the image for an enlargement of the children in their Sunday School outfits. The cabinet card is undated, but based on th mount style was probably taken in the 1900s decade.

An issue with Sunday School is transport and church going in general is transport. This was not a major issue in the city when many people lived within walking distance of their churches. And in the cities here was public transport. Only the wealthy could afford taxis or to have horse-drawn carriages. The rural areas were different. And until the 1920s, the majority of Americans lived in rural areas. Not only could most people in rural areas not walk to church on Sunday, but given the fact that rural families tended to be large, transport to church was a problem. Obviously not all the family Could ride horses to church. Young children and the elderly could not ride. Nor were there generally enough horses fir every one or way of accommodating a huge number of horses at th church. Nor could you cram everyone in horse-drawn buggies. The solution was horse drawn wagons with room for everyone. Henry Ford provider the solution--the Model T- Tin Lizzie. Wide spread car ownership no only solved the rural problem, but made the urban move into the suburbs possible. And unlike Europe, in America, ordinary people could afford the in Lizzie, both in the city and rural area. The consequences for he 20th century were huge. Sunday school was only a small part of it

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