The Sabbath History has been kept from the people too long. They need this precious work, even if they do not have it in all its perfection. It never can be prepared in a manner to fully silence unreasonable opponents, who are unstable, and who wrest the Scriptures unto their own destruction. This is a busy world. Men and women who engage in the business of life have not time to meditate, or even to read the word of God enough to understand all its important truths. Long, labored arguments will interest but a few; for the people have to read as they run. You can no more remove the objections to the Sabbath commandment from the minds of first-day Adventists than could the Saviour of the world, by His great power and miracles, convince the Jews that He was the Messiah, after they had once set themselves to reject Him. Like the obstinate, unbelieving Jews, they have chosen darkness rather than light, and should an angel direct from the courts of heaven speak to them, they would say it was Satan. {3T 38.3}

Bogen Sabbats Historien er for længe holdt væk fra folk. De behøver dette dyrebare værk, endda hvis de ikke har den hele samlet. Den kan aldrig udarbejdes på en måde der helt bringer ufornuftige modstandere til tavshed, som er ustabile og som kan fordreje skriftsteder til deres eget fordærv. Det er en travl verden. Mænd og kvinder som engagerer sig i livets foretagender har ikke tid til at meditere, eller endda læse Guds ord nok til at forstå alle dets betydningsfulde sandheder. Lange bearbejdede argumenter vil kun interessere få, for folk skal læse som de løber. Du kan ikke mere fjerne indvendingerne mod sabbatsbuddet fra Første-dags Adventisternes tanker end verdens frelser kunne, med sin store magt og mirakler, overbevise jøderne at han var Messias, efter de engang havde sat sig for at fornægte ham. Ligesom de genstridige vantro jøder, har de valgt mørket frem for lyset og skulle en engel direkte fra himlens sale tale til dem, ville de sige at det var Satan.