 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".Preble's great-grandparents were massacred by Natives in 1758 in Woolwich, Maine.