Another Look at Adventism by HERBERT S. BIRD
This article is from Christianity Today, April 28, 1958, Volume 2, Number 15, pages 14-17. I found this article quite interesting because the author is "criticizing" the Adventist church, yet he does it in a very respectful manner. Below is the article: A distinctive feature of Seventh-day Adventist teaching is the “heavenly sanctuary” doctrine. On the day after “the great disappointment” in 1844, Hiram Edson assertedly experienced a vision of heaven in which he saw Christ, the High Priest, entering the most holy place in heaven to cleanse it. Here then, of course, lay the readiest explanation for the failure of Christ to return to earth as had been expected by the Adventists. What was the purpose of this supposed cleansing of the sanctuary in 1844? To learn this, the Adventists turned to the biblical account of the yearly day of Atonement, and found there, presumably in type, the explanation of this new phase of the ministry of Christ in behalf of sinners. A passage from M