Irom the British .nsenm copy. His study of this work seems to have
led him to a search for men) other hidden periods besides those
plainly svecified in the great outline prophecies of Scripture.
in this search he did not hesitate to nse any one of several kinds
of reckoning, solar, lunar and 'ealendar"; and in his writings he
set down as many possible applications of each period as oceirrad to
him in his study of history and astronomy. This has made his book
a &ind of source book into which later expositors have dipped and
taken as they fancied. This has been very true of Uritish-Israelite
authors, wio seem to have adopted and extended not only his periods,
ont also his remarkable ingermity in finding variant methods of cal-
culation end alternative terminations. Grattan Gvinness was never
a Jritisn-lsraelite, thou'h ne mst have neen acquaintes with their
beliels to some extent for he lists 0. riazzl Smyth's Onr Inheritance
lr tne Great Pyramid amone the works ide had consulte” on astronomy
sowever, his impressive books, being published in the very years that
Ldvard Hine and =. W. 2ird were gathering a body of able supporters
for the ~ritisn-Israel teaching, became thenceforward their chief
reliance in all matters of prophetic chronology, and have been quoted
ov
J then so much from that day to the Present, that he ought really to
be considered one of the mai. pillars of the ovement. barly examples
may oe found in Alder Smith's fullness of tne lations published 1889
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4 conrrbulian
pp. 179-202 and 206, and in Sritish-lsrael Truth, hth ed. p. 33, fron
Denis sanan written 1891.  itecent examples may be found frequently
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in The l.ational Jessage, as for example in articles by C. C. Dabson,