The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09


and the primary. The seat OF learning i
the National University at Santiago, which
has council of education whose duty it i
to superintend all the higher and uterine
date schools of the country. They are al
free. the government owning the building!
and paying the teachers. In order to NEE
the demands for the best instructors, tn,
government maintains a number of younl
men, at great expense. at some of the mos
celebrated colleges in Europe to educate
them for that purpose, while the female
teachers are trained in the excellent nor
NAL schools that have recently been estab
| lished in Chile.
THE SCHOOL HOUSES OF CONCEPTION
are so constructed that their patlos afford
ample play grounds. and the children are
not seen outside the walls from the time
they enter in the morning until school
closes at night. memorable custom de-
mands that girls of the better classes above
the age of ten years must never De allowed
TO so TO and fro alone, even in the family
carriage driven by trusty coachman, but
must be religiously attended by an elderly
female servant
The Coleiio Andres Bello, for boys, con-
tains about 600 students. AS in all Gillian
schools, the Catholic catechism (printed, of
course, in Spanish) is an important text
book IN constant use. The following ques-
>.
same strain, are learned and ratified of, par
rot fashion, every day:
"What is the church.'
1.-THE church is the congregation Of those
who have been baptized, received the sac
rament and obey the priests and the Pope. -
'Why is it called the Roman church,"
Because in Rome is established the
prince OF all apostles and successor of all
popes."
show Is THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH DIvIDEDa''
Unto the Church Triumphant, the
Church OF Purgatory and the Church Of
Militant
What is the Church Triumphant.',
sit is the congregation of all the righte-
GUS in heaven"
''What is the Church of Purgatoryr,
sit is tho congregation Of those who lied
without doing sufficient penance here on
earth. and who have been sent to Purga-
tory to suffer for season before being al
lowed to join the Church Triumphant in
heaven"
"What is the Church Militantn
sit is on earth, composed of those who
have been baptized and who fight against
the world, tie flesh and the devil"
...How is the last divided.r
Unto the official church, composed of the
pope, the bishops and the priests; and into
tue CoLuuOu CHURCH, cOmpOSeu Oh the people
who follow and obey them"
All native boys in Chile-and girls, too,
for that matter-can repeat every word of
this catechism OF ninety-six pages; for,
especially in the primary schools il is made
the basis OF education, and repeated over
and over, day after day, year in and year
out. Ia a school for the poor, which at
tended, at the close Of the session the rag
ged little fellows stood up and reverently
repeated in concert the following prayer:
'JEsUs, JOSEPH AND NARY
give you my heart and soul. Jesus, Joseph
and Mary, assist me in my last agony
Jesus, Joseph and Mary, may my soul ex-
pire with you in peacer And then they
rushed out of doors as unanimously as
their easy going natures would allow and
were soon deep in the delights Of South
American humble peg.
The celebrated Jesuit seminary covers
more than an acre Of ground, and every
tning about it 10 kept in apple pie order.
Its students, which average about two hun
dred, are dressed alike in black gowns.
The Licco. a government school for boys.
is the crack institution in southern Chile.
Its enormous building rambles over three
acres, and its inmates number upwards o.
Are hundred, The REipGiRal RatlQ qQRtaip