Ellen G. White Estate

"In many places where there is a church of Seventh-day Adventists, they [the Adventists] have been spoken against by those who have not become acquainted with them. They have been called fanatics who were ignorantly keeping Saturday for Sunday. The reasons of their faith are not understood by the people.

At a camp meeting [an evangelistic meeting held in a large tent during the 1800s] many come from curiosity, to hear what these people do believe. They find that we have the Word of God, and are more familiar with a “Thus saith the Lord” than is the minister who has warned them not to go to the tent to hear the people who keep Saturday for Sunday. Often hundreds and thousands attend these meetings. Those who wish to understand the truth as proved by God’s Word say that the Bible has become a new book to them. They are convicted. Then the conflict begins.

The ministers [from other churches] come with their subtle reasoning and misinterpret the Word. All the false statements that were made concerning Christ, the greatest Teacher in our world, will be repeated concerning His followers who eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God by receiving the Word of God."

—Letters and Manuscripts, vol. 15 (1900), Ms 52, 1900, par. 28