as
God may prosper them the means for as prompt a response as possible to
our call.

Share, $50. $100,000

THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND
OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

I hereby take ...... shares (Fifty Dollars each) in the Jubilee Year
Fund of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the
close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896.

_Name_ .....................................
_P. O. Address_ ............................

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ARREST OF OUR TEACHERS IN ORANGE PARK, FLORIDA.

Rev. T. S. Perry, of Limerick, Me.; Mr. O. S. Dickinson, of West
Granville, Mass.; Principal B. D. Rowlee, of East Woodstock, Conn.;
Mrs. B. D. Rowlee; Miss Edith M. Robinson, of Battle Creek, Mich.;
Miss H. S. Loveland, of Newark Valley, N. Y.; and Miss Margaret Ball,
of Orange Park, Fla., with two patrons of the school (white) residing
in Orange Park, were all arrested by the Sheriff at Orange Park, Fla.,
on Friday the 10th of April, charged with the crime of teaching young
people of two races under the same roof. They were not taken to jail,
but were given until Monday--the intervening days of Saturday and
Sunday--to procure bail. This esteemed pastor of the Congregational
Church in Orange Park, the most worthy teachers and the patrons are
awaiting trial for this crime! and are only saved from jail by the
bail which has been procured for them. This is as far as the State of
Florida has descended in its shame at present.

This enactment, which we have been careful not to call a law, was
pronounced by the National Council to be "not only repugnant to
Christian principles, but also opposed to the civil rights guaranteed
by our Constitution," and the Association was called to persistently
resist it with all legal measures.

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts writes of it: "I am amazed that even in
Florida such things can be done. I think that this cannot stand a
moment before the Courts of the United States."

Arrests of Christian teachers because they instruct a few white
children under the same roof with colored children will not only call
the attention of the Nation to the gross darkness which dwells in the
minds of those who could make such an enactment, but it will bring
about a public opinion which will hasten the progress of the State
from its present low condition faster than almost any other agency.

Meanwhile Florida remains in shame.