the Holy Place until 1844. Although he accepted the idea of a pre-Advent judgment, he said that the traditional Adventist understanding of it was wrong. Because Ellen White’s writings had played such a major role in confirming this doctrine, Ford also addressed the question of the nature of her inspiration and function. While her inspired messages were absolutely indispensable to the development and survival of Seventh-day Adventism, he said, Ellen White’s legacy was “pastoral” rather than “canonical.”58