The Sunday School Man Who Built an Empire

In 1858, twenty-year-old John Wanamaker gathered a handful of children in a vacant lot in Philadelphia and started a Sunday school class. He had no wealth, no connections — just a reverent fear of the Almighty and a stubborn conviction that generosity was the only life worth living. Within a decade, his Bethany Sunday School grew to over four thousand members, the largest in the nation.…