North Lansing, June 9, 1872
By FARMER
MR. EDITOR, Dear Sir:—Attracted by your notice of the tent-meeting at Allen Grove, West Groton, I attended the meetings. They teach many new and strange things, but seem to prove every position they take from the Bible. They say, Search the Bible for yourself, but farmers generally here have neither the time, nor the learning, to decide questions of theology. They claim the seventh day, Saturday, is the true Sabbath, and all the Bible evidence seems to be on their side. I have talked this over with a number. Some have searched, but can't find just where the requirement to observe Sunday as first day is; so I am requested to write to you, to urge our ministers to go to the tent and give us the other side, for this question is raising great excitement around. If Saturday is Sabbath, we want to know it. The tent people will not permit any collections, but if any able minister will come here and prove them wrong and settle this question, a purse would be made up to well repay his time and trouble, and if the tent people did not give him a full and fair hearing, we should know it was because they were afraid of the truth. Won't you urge on the ministers that it is their duty to do this, since some of all denominations are going over to Saturday-keeping? I am not a professor, but want to hear both sides. Let us have the truth, the whole truth just as it is in the Bible.
FARMER.