p. 112 | Exempted by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 1, 1863

Exempted.

By Editor

As the brethren will be interested to know on what ground Bro. A. C. Bourdeau, the only Sabbath-keeper drafted in Vermont, got clear from the draft, we take the liberty to give the following extract from a private letter recently received from him:

I have not had to pay the $300 dollars. I am exempt from all liability to military duty by reason of being an alien. The brethren and sisters have been very good to me. They have shed many tears, and offered many fervent prayers in my behalf, and have labored for me with their hands, for which I have great reason to be thankful.

When I had procured papers giving satisfactory evidence that I was not properly subject to do military duty in this country, our town representative, and one of our selectmen, to make it still stronger if possible, gave me a certificate testifying under oath that I was "a man of respectability and truthfulness," &c. I offered to pay them for their trouble, but they refused to take anything.

I say this not to show that there is any worthiness in me, but to show that God has been good to me. To God be all the praise!