Three-year-olds were not enrolled in Sunday School or Primary in the early years of the 20th century. Here’s an announcement of the beginning of their participation in Sunday School, in the November 1934 Instructor.
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Very interesting!
It seems Oglevee’s Cradle Roll Lessons was originally published in 1924 and in use among other Christian denominations as well:
See: Catalogue of Copyright Entries (1924)
She was also a very prolific hymn writer: http://www.hymnary.org/person/Oglevee_Louise
Thanks for those additions, Tod.
First time I heard the term “cradle roll” was on a tiny certificate enrolling my uncle in a Protestant Sunday School in Rochester, New York, in 1905. That uncle had no children, so I’m glad the certificate is in my possession — no one else in the world would cherish it more. Which is, I suppose, why my grandmother preserved that evidence of her first born’s entrance into a church …