The Seventh Day Adventists here have succeeded in securing a regulation which makes it possible for Christian Sabbatarians in the army to observe the seventh day as their day of rest.
The Adventists have also succeeded in inducing the authorities to release their children, who attend school on Saturdays, from engaging in writing or any other labors which they consider desecrate the Sabbath.
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