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Thomas M. Preble, Tract Showing that Seventh Day Should be Observed as a Sabbath, instead of the First Day according to the Commandment (1845)

Preble, T. M. Tract Showing that Seventh Day Should be Observed as a Sabbath, instead of the First Day according to the Commandment. - Nashua: Printed by Murray & Kimball, 1845: 12. Thomas Motherwell Preble (1810-1907) was a Free Will Baptist minister in New Hampshire and a Millerite preacher. After accepting the teachings of William Miller, Preble was excommunicated from his church. Preble appears to have accepted the seventh-day Sabbath in 1844, possibly from Frederick Wheeler or someone associated with the Washington, New Hampshire, church. Preble was the first Millerite to advocate the Sabbath in print. In the Feb. 28, 1845, issue of the Hope of Israel, a Seventh-day Adventist periodical in Portland, Maine, was reprinted in tract form in March, 1845, with the title, Tract, Showing That the Seventh Day Should be Observed as the Sabbath. This tract led to the conversion of J. N. Andrews and other Adventist families in Paris, Maine, as well as to Joseph Bates. Two years later, however, Preble repudiated the Sabbath and later wrote some articles against the Seventh-Day Sabbath in The World's Crisis and a book, entitled First-Day Sabbath.

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