because he drew attention to the fact that the intervals 

 between these droughts and ours are multiples of nineteen 

 years, and that the iiit»-r\ ;i l<;i itn>n^>.t them a re either exactly 

 nineteen years or multiples of nineteen years. Had Mr. 

 Russell been in possession of the information which is now 

 before you, he would have been in a better position to 

 demonstrate the fact that the dates given by the chrono- 

 logists could not have been mere guesses, but the result of 

 painstaking, marvellously accurate work. The droughts 

 referred to were as follows:— 



Abraham's Drought.-Tf Genesis xi, 31, XII, 1 to 20, xm, 

 1 to 18 be studied, it will be seen from the text and margin;. I 

 dates, that Abraham was living in the land of Canaan in 

 B.C. 1923 = 22 cycles of 171 years before A.D. 1839, at 

 which time a fearful drought prevailed over all that region. 

 He, therefore, moved into the land of Egypt, where it will 

 be seen from the diagram, good seasons were experienced 

 in B.C. 1922, 1921, and L920, (A.D. 1810, 1841, 1842). 



Drought, however, returned in Kgypt, and Abraham, in 

 B.C. 1918 (xm, 1) moved out of it, and returned again to 

 Canaan, where in B.C. 1917 (xm, 12) he was dwelling at a 

 time when the land was well watered (xiii, 10) " Kven as 

 the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt." 



On reference to the diagram it will be seen that B.C. 

 1917 corresponds with A.D. 1845, in which year the drought 

 terminated and a long succession of good seasons com- 

 menced. 



Isaac's Drought.-Genesis xxvi, 1. 'And then; was a famine 

 in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham 

 And Isaac went unto Abimelech, King of the Philistines unto 



The marginal date is B.C. 1804, or two cycles of 57 yea ■ - 

 — 114 years after Abraham found it necessary to leave 

 Egypt on account of the drought there (see xm, 1). The 



