. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . rsonal responsibility to the school is, I have no hesitancy in affirming, the most potentagent in all Chile that reaches the young Chilean of the upper influence of the teachers in the State schools is, in general,atheistic, and the schools of the controlling church are content tolimit their religious teaching to the placing of their own particularecclesiastical brand or mark on their students, and it does not seemto have occurr
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . rsonal responsibility to the school is, I have no hesitancy in affirming, the most potentagent in all Chile that reaches the young Chilean of the upper influence of the teachers in the State schools is, in general,atheistic, and the schools of the controlling church are content tolimit their religious teaching to the placing of their own particularecclesiastical brand or mark on their students, and it does not seemto have occurred to their teachers of religion that Christianity maybe made a vital force in the lives of the young men and the boys ofChile. The Sunday school, which is composed of those boys who are in theschool over Sunday, have this year made themselves responsible forthe education and support of a poor boy in the Sheltering Home inValparaiso. They have agreed to pay $ a month and have nowalready paid up the bill to the first of March, 1914. The collectioneach Sunday has averaged from three to ten pesos, from some 75boys who form the Sunday ^i Maps 3=11 CHILEâVALrARAISO 413 Every boy in the school has had Biblical studies in his class, eithertwo or three hours a week. Senor Martinez, the pastor of theChilean church in the Avenida Matta, has had charge of some ofthe upper courses, while the others have been divided up amongdifferent teachers. The Y. M. C. A. has held its usual weekly meet-ings, and a vesper service is held every Sunday evening for the boyswho may be in the school. A number of boys have attended the ser-vices of the Union Church, and a few have attended the Chileanchurches, occasionally. Our graduates are sought for by all the principal business firms ofthe capital and it is a satisfaction to know that the vast majority ofthose who had been, for any length of time, under the ofthe school, are leading upright, moral, and useful lives in the midst
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