Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

those which were studied out in the 1848 Sabbath
conferences. The believers, who gathered in more
than a dozen meetings over a period of two years,
came with all shades of theological understanding
as they left the popular churches. Growing out of
this spectrum of thought, before a Seventh-day
Adventist existed, came the teachings that make us
a people today. On the "pillars" and "landmarks"
there established the church stands or falls in the
final crisis.
The three outstanding truths that are distinct
and beyond negotiation are: (1) The binding claims
of the law, which include the seventh-day Sabbath;
(2) the nonimmortality of the soul (if the soul is
immortal Christ could not have died, hence His
offering in the plan of salvation cannot be fully
appreciated in the light of the Old Testament
sacrificial system); and (3) the work of the High
Priest in the cleansing of the sanctuary, which has a
decided relation to God's people on earth.
While some Evangelicals will allow for
numbers one and two as slightly less than heresy,
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