p. 164 | The Sanctuary by John Nevins Andrews

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 18, 1864

The Sanctuary.

By John Nevins Andrews

THE Seventh-Day Adventists have a definite position on the subject of the Sanctuary. In this thing there is a striking contrast between them and all other Advent bodies, who, on this question, are in a state of complete confusion. Now this fact is not a little remarkable. For if we go back to the time when the great disappointment threw the whole Advent body into perplexity, we shall find that that disappointment arose from the view then prevalent among them concerning the Sanctuary. The S. D. Adventists, having carefully reviewed the whole ground, have a definite position to offer which they consider a complete explanation of the subject.

Moreover, the view that they have to present of the Sanctuary subject is the great central doctrine in their system; for it inseparably connects all the points in their faith, and presents the subject as one grand whole.

Our Advent friends who differ from us have nothing to offer in exchange on which they themselves are agreed. And unless we greatly misjudge, they have never yet attempted fairly to answer our views of the Sanctuary. Will they give this matter more serious thought in time to come? J. N. A.