Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

in London, but throughout the large cities of Great
Britain. Auditoriums were not large enough to
accommodate those who sought to hear him.[19]
His fame reached the ears of Lacunza, who sent
him a copy of his own book. Irving was astonished
to see how God had separately led a Scotch
Presbyterian and a converted South American
Jesuit to recognize the commanding value of this
prophecy and to conclude from it that the time of
the end had come.
Another remarkable preacher of prophecy was
Ezra Ben-Ezra who, after his conversion from
Judaism, took the name of Joseph Wolff. Of whom
D. T. Taylor writes:
Joseph Wolffe, D. D., according to his
Journals, between the years 1821 and 1845,
proclaimed the Lord’s speedy advent in Palestine,
Egypt, on the shores of the Red Sea, Mesopotamia,
the Crimea, Persia, Georgia, throughout the
Ottoman Empire, in Greece, Arabia, Turkistan,
Bokhara, Affghanistan, Cashmere, Hindostan,
Thibet, in Holland, Scotland and Ireland, at
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