Essential portion of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1937. / Reproduced from type-written copy. "The study has been confined to the changes that took place in the northeastern part of the United States."--Pref. The essential portion consists of chapter IX. The complete dissertation on microfilm in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography: p. 28-33.

Thesis--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-107).

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2002. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves B53-54).

Thesis (M.A.R.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hampton, MA, 2005. / Abstract and vita. An integrative paper submitted to the Faculty of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-42).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-107).

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian Seminary, 1987. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-211).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / Problem: How a selected group of Methodist laymen evaluate themselves as Sunday church school teachers. Procedure: A historical review of the evolvement of Methodist laymen as church school teachers furnished the background for the study. Then a survey was made of teachers from fifty churches within the New England Conference of the Methodist Church. A questionnaire was developed around four areas of the teachers' understanding and performance of their roles: the content taught, the methods used, the understanding of the teaching-learning processes, and the teacher-student relationships. The laymen were asked also the source of their criteria for judging a "good" church school teacher, what were the most important qualifications of such a teacher, who should be teachers of church school classes, their reasons for teaching and continuing to teach, their rewards and dissatisfactions in teaching, and their suggestions for improvement of their local church school. [TRUNCATED]

This study traces the growth of the Sabbatarian lobby in Canada. Limited to sporadic and ephemeral groups during the nineteenth century, Sabbatarianism became organized in response to the appearance of the Sunday street car in the early 1890s. This issue precipitated the formation of an aggressive lobby, the Ontario Lord's Day Alliance. Owing to a succession of judicial decisions handed down concerning the Sunday car, the Ontario Alliance found itself balked in its pursuit of provincial Sabbath observance legislation. As a consequence, it expanded in the early 1900s into a national lobby, the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada, in order to pressure the federal government. As the Alliance developed an increasing awareness of the requisites of successful lobbying, it improved and broadened its techniques: first, by presenting the Sabbatarian aim as a social rather than a moral reform; second, by forging a temporary alliance with organized labour; third, by developing new campaigning methods such as a membership and a press campaign; finally, by persuading the Laurier Liberal government that the Alliance had the support of the two major groups within Canadian society. Throughout its campaign, the Alliance maintained a cohesive organization and pressured the government on all fronts -- two key determinants to a lobby's success within the Canadian political system. Political success came to the Alliance when the French Catholic church, for its own reasons, decided to support the campaign for Sabbath observance legislation. Convinced that he was effecting a compromise acceptable to both English and French, Laurier agreed to introduce a Lord's Day bill in 19 06. The subsequent debates forced Laurier to modify his position in the face of unexpected French Canadian hostility. The Alliance's lobbying inside Parliament was markedly less effective than it had been outside. Although a truncated version of the bill became law, the Alliance failed to turn a political victory into a moral triumph. After five years' ardent pursuit of law enforcement, it became apparent that social legislation did not guarantee a reform of Canadian morals. Canadian Sabbatarianism was one of many responses to vast social and economic change in the period leading up to the First World War. The particular solution advocated by Sabbatarians was the reform of society's ills through the reform of the individual's morals. This ideal had little contact with the realities of an emerging urban and industrial society; it had little relevance to the working class need for recreation other than church-going on the week's one day of leisure. Studies of crusades for moral reform legislation demand discussion because restrictions on recreation affected larger; groups more directly than did legislation concerning factory hours or poor relief. The study of moral and social reform groups is attracting the attention of increasing numbers of Canadian his torians, while the study of pressure group activity is attracting that of political scientists. Based on a theoretical framework provided by David Truman and Neil Smelser, the core of my analysis consisted of a detailed examination of the papers of the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada, its allies, and the key politicians involved; the legislation passed at all levels of government; and the numerous judicial decisions concerning Sabbath observance. It is hoped that the study of the Sabbatarian lobby, its transformation from a single issue group to a more institutionalized group, its shift from traditional nine-' . teenth century techniques to more sophisticated methods of lobbying, its political success in 1906 and subsequent failures, will contribute an historical dimension to the debate concerning the relationship between pressure groups and the policy-making process in Canada. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Temple Baptist Seminary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-136).