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EDITORIAL.
THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND, 145 ARREST OF OUR TEACHERS IN ORANGE PARK, FLA., 146 PARAGRAPHS--JUBILEE FIELD DAYS IN THE INTERIOR, 147
THE SOUTH.
THE OPENING CHURCH MISSIONS , 150 GRACIOUS REVIVAL IN SELMA, ALA., 155 COTTON VALLEY, ALA., 156 IMPARTIAL TESTIMONY, 157 WHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE DOING, 158 ALL HEALING, N. C.--PLEASANT HILL, TENN., 160
THE INDIANS.
PONCA, NEB.--FLYING BY'S VILLAGE, 160 HUT AND HEAVEN, 161
THE CHINESE.
LOS ANGELES MISSION, 162
WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS, 164
SHARES OF THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND, 166
RECEIPTS, 167
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.
Price, 50 Cents a Year in advance.
Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class mail matter.
American Missionary Association.
PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS.
GEORGE S. HICKOK. JAMES H. OLIPHANT.
CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.
EAMUEL HOLMES, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WILLIAM H. STRONG, ELIJAH HORR.
WILLIAM HAYES WARD, JAMES W. COOPER, LUCIEN C. WARNER, JOSEPH H. TWICHELL, CHARLES P. PEIRCE.
CHARLES A. HULL, ADDISON P. FOSTER, ALBERT J. LYMAN, NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, A. J. F. BEHRENDS.
COMMUNICATIONS
Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary of the Woman's Bureau.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York; or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars constitutes a Life Member.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label" indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed.
FORM OF A BEQUEST.
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
VOL. L. MAY, 1896. No. 5.
THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND.
In the last number of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY we published the plea of the Executive Committee of this Association for an offering to relieve the Association in its financial necessities. We present below the working point of that document in these words:
It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year Fund of 0,000, in shares of each, with the hope and expectation that these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the current work.
As the means of securing these gifts we subjoin the blank form of a pledge, which, when signed by individuals or officers of churches, may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York. When the amount pledged is paid our treasurer will send as a receipt a neatly printed certificate. On another page will be found a list of pledges already made.
Share, . 0,000
THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
I hereby take ...... shares in the Jubilee Year Fund of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896.
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 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.
HORSE NEEDED.--A faithful minister in our mountain field has great need of a horse. He reaches half a dozen preaching-stations among these Highlanders, often going on foot. Fifty dollars would purchase him a good horse, and if any friend will respond to this appeal it will increase the efficiency of an earnest missionary very greatly. If a larger amount than this is received it will be expended in the work among these mountain people.
JUBILEE FIELD DAYS IN THE INTERIOR.
SECRETARY CHARLES J. RYDER.
A reduction in the secretarial force of the American Missionary Association, in order to cut down current expenses and decrease the debt, has resulted in a serious loss in the effectiveness of the collecting field. The office at Cleveland, together with a most efficient and acceptable district secretary, was discontinued for economy's sake. The expenses, however, had to be cut down in some way, and so the burden was placed upon one of the secretaries in the New York office. With multiform duties already upon the hands of each one in the administration of the mission field, and almost constant Sunday service among the contributing churches, it seemed almost impossible to take up this new burden of work, which in some societies involves the constant labor of a large number of secretaries. To accomplish an undertaking which seemed almost impossible the pastors were conferred with, and cordially and generously promised all the assistance within their power for the American Missionary Association in its depleted condition. Right royally did these good brethren redeem their pledge.
A series of Jubilee Field Days was planned and carried out with great success and interest, largely through the co-operation of these faithful brethren in the ministry of the churches in the interior.
Just a word concerning the plan adopted. A campaign of five weeks was planned. Jubilee Field Day Rallies were to be held twice every weekday except Saturday, and as many times on the Sabbath as possible. Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana were the States to be reached.
The purpose of the campaign was to instruct and stimulate the churches and congregations reached. It was also hoped that the collections would pay all the expenses of this effort to scatter missionary information and enthusiasm, and that the regular collections of the churches would be largely increased.
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