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fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896.
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FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES.
In the last number of THE MISSIONARY we gave the gratifying
report of 34 shares taken for this fund, and in the present number we
have the pleasure of adding 75 more. We are fully aware of the
difficulties under which we send forth the call for responses to this
much-needed fund. Other appeals have been made, and are still pressed
upon the churches, all of them worthy of the generosity with which
they are met.
But the ability of the churches to meet the demands of their varied
mission work is not exhausted, and the spirit of consecration among the
followers of Christ, even when self-denial must be practiced, has not
reached its limit. We therefore urge our appeal with strong confidence
that we shall not be felt to be intruders, but that we are simply trying to
fulfill the duty imposed upon us in carrying the Gospel to the most
needy and destitute in our land.
We must repeat the plea made by our Executive Committee that in
giving to this Jubilee Fund, the contributions for our regular work, to
which we are committed and whose claims we cannot repudiate, may
not be neglected.

THE ACCEPTABLE MITES.
ANDERSONVILLE, GA.--"Please find inclosed $2.31, which is a
contribution from our church toward paying the debt of the American
Missionary Association. It is very little, but more than I supposed the
people would raise, there is so little money in the place."

GREENWOOD, S. C.--"It is a great pleasure to me to hand you
herewith bank draft for $11, which is the amount of our collection for
the Lincoln Memorial Day. I have delayed the remitting of this amount
somewhat to give others an opportunity who wished to contribute, but
were not quite ready. The amount is not large, but it is from the people
and expresses in a measure their interest in the work of the American
Missionary Association. The collection represents offerings of the
young and old from a cent to a dollar. What was done was done with a
free heart."

NO COLOR-LINE IN CLEVELAND.
The Methodist General Conference and the hotels in Cleveland, O.,
deserve great credit--the hotels for according to all delegates, regardless
of color, equal accommodations, and the Conference for its hearty
indorsement of their action. If this greatest gathering of the largest
Protestant church in America had nothing else to do, it might go with
its grand meeting from city to city securing this recognition of the
brotherhood of man. It is ardently hoped that the generous and
liberal-minded hotel keepers in Cleveland may not "backslide," and
that if any single colored delegate, clerical or lay, should come alone to
Cleveland, even before the close of the "six months' probation," he
might not find the door closed against him.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church may be equally
useful at its meeting in Saratoga in preaching this same gospel of the
brotherhood of man, and in this case, too, permanency is very desirable,
and it is hoped, therefore, that in this event there may be the illustration
of the good old Presbyterian doctrine of the "perseverance of the
saints."

ORANGE PARK NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN
FLORIDA CLOSED BY THE SHERIFF.
It will be remembered that on Friday, the 10th of April, seven teachers

and two patrons of the Orange Park School, at Orange Park, Fla., were
arrested for violation of an enactment legalized a year ago by the State
Legislature under the instigation of William H. Sheats, the State
superintendent of education.
The enactment, which we protest is in no just sense a law, forbids not
only white and colored persons to be instructed within the same
building at the same time, but it also forbids a white principal or matron
or guardians of the school rooming or living within the same building
where their pupils are.
This enactment against the personal rights of education in a private
Christian school not supported or aided by the State, if sustained,
would destroy nearly all of the institutions carried on by Northern
benevolence in all of our Southern States. It would take the
guardianship of manners and morals out of the hands of those who have
planted and sustained the institutions until now, and who, in view of the
millions yet uneducated and untrained, are now needed as much as ever.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the National Council of
Congregational Churches at Syracuse in October requested the
Association to take this question to the highest courts, nor that the
General Conference of the Methodist Church in Cleveland has just
passed a resolution