Adventist Noncombatant Exemption
By Editor
THE brethren will be gratified to see in this week's Review the report from Bro. Andrews, giving the result of his mission to Washington. That the law relating to non-combatants would apply to those bodies of professed Christians who have long been known as such, we were well aware; but whether it would be construed to apply to Seventh-day Adventists, whose views are comparatively unknown, was a question—a question, too, which the General Conference Committee deemed it a duty which they owed to the brethren to have decided, before the brethren should become involved in the draft. The response from the Provost Marshal General is favorable, and will apply to our brethren in all the States. So that whoever can show himself to be an acknowledged member of the body of S. D. Adventists, and bound by their views relative to bearing arms, can avail himself of the immunities granted by law to non-combatants; that is, if drafted, instead of going into the field, he can be assigned to duty in the hospitals, or to the care of freed-men, or on payment of $300 for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers, be exempt from any and all of these duties.