Questions Addressed to Candid Adventists of the 1844 Movement.
By John Nevins Andrews
1. Do the 2300 days extend into the future? Or have they expired already so that we are now in the period of the cleansing of the sanctuary? 2. If the 70 weeks are a part of the 2300 days, is it not certain that the 2300 days have expired? 3. If the 70 weeks are not a part of the 2300 days, is it not manifest that there is no starting point for those days? 4. If there is no starting point for the 2300 days, of what account to us is it that that period is given in the Bible? 5. Has the argument in proof of Dan. ix being an explanation of Dan. viii, ever been answered at all? 6. Has not the lapse of time since 1844 shown that the Adventists of that time were in error in one of two things, viz: that the earth is the sanctuary, or that the 70 weeks are a part of the 2300 days? 7. Is there not a strong argument for the connection of the 70 weeks with the 2300 days? Is there any argument at all proving the earth to be the sanctuary? Which of the two positions then should be given up? Have you not given up the one that is sustained by invincible proof, for the sake of retaining that one which is entirely destitute of any proof in its support? 8. Is it not plain that the cleansing of the sanctuary takes place somewhere about this time? May it not be an event that is of some importance to ourselves? Is it not time that some one had clear light on the subject? Have you such light at this time? If not, will you listen with candor to those who have plain and express testimony from the Holy Scriptures to offer you? Will you not in view of the above questions and of the earnest request of the writer, procure the recent work published at the Review Office, entitled "The Sanctuary and 2300 days," and read it with a serious and prayerful spirit?