A REPLY SOLICITED

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1872

A REPLY SOLICITED.

Woodland, June 14, 1872.

“EDITOR DEMOCRAT:—The tent-meetings in this place have awakened a very great interest in the minds of the people, and from what I hear daily I think very many of our fellow-citizens are convinced that the speakers in the tent are teaching the truth, especially on the subject of the Sabbath. Yet, on attending our regular Thursday evening prayer-meeting, I learned that a few of our Methodist and Christian brethren, including the ministers of both those churches, claim that the doctrines advocated in the tent are ‘gross errors,’ and the ministers stated in my hearing that they could very easily and plainly show this by the Bible. Now, if they can do this, I, in behalf of many citizens, request them to do it before the same audience that heard the ‘errors’ in the tent; for if it is error, the sooner it is exposed the better.”

“If the men in the tent are right on the Sabbath question, then we who keep Sunday are wrong. For one I am very anxious to learn just the truth in this matter.

“Elders Cornell and Loughborough appear like candid men. They have repeatedly and publicly offered to give the use of their tent to any minister who thought he could point out errors in the things they teach, and I think our ministers ought to accept their offer and show the other side of the Sabbath question in the tent; for if Sunday be the Sabbath of the Bible, then let them come to the rescue.

“ONE OF MANY WHO WISH “TO HEAR BOTH SIDES.”