The attention of the Adventists as a body was called to the Sabbath question by an essay on the subject from T. M. Preble, dated Feb. 13, 1845, and published in the Hope of Israel, Portland, Maine, Feb. 28, 1845. After showing the claims of the Bible Sabbath, and the fact that it was changed to Sunday by the great apostasy, he remarks: “Thus we see Daniel 7:25 fulfilled, the little horn changing ‘times and laws.’ Therefore it appears to me that all who keep the first day for the Sabbath are the pope’s Sunday-keepers and God’s Sabbath-breakers.” 5Andrews’s History of the Sabbath, page 506, edition of 1887. GSAM 250.1