Events during recent decades have brought the doctrine of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment to the forefront as never before. Voices both within and outside the church have charged that Seventh-day Adventists did not derive this teaching from Scripture, but rather from the writings of Ellen White. Elder Paul Gordon decided to investigate this charge. This book, a condensations oa a larger study, convincingly demonstrates that such pioneer Adventist leaders and thinkers as J N Andrews, James White, and Uriah Smith based the sanctuary doctrine on the sonsensus they had reached as a result of a long period of Bible study in the light of the 1844 experience. Nor did the pioneers quote Ellen White as authority for the teaching. The sanctuary concept, they firmly believed, was clearly based on Scripture itself. This book reaffirms the Seventh-day Adventist Church"s faith in its pioneers as people devoted to the study of Scripture.