In What Year Did It Happen?

[David Lockmiller]

(07-06-2024 05:37 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  

(07-05-2024 02:28 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  In 1833 some people thought the Day of Judgement had come. "One witness to the 1833 Leonid meteor storm used the story to good effect years later".

https://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-conte...eonids.pdf

Great story!!!

In the gloomiest period of the war, he [President Lincoln] had a call from a large delegation of bank presidents. In the talk after business was settled, one of the big Dons asked Mr. Lincoln if his confidence in the permanency of the Union was
not beginning to be shaken — whereupon the homely President told a little story.

“When I was a young man in Illinois,” said he, “I boarded for a time with a Deacon of the Presbyterian church. One night I was roused from my sleep by a rap at the
door, & I heard the Deacon’s voice exclaiming ‘Arise, Abraham, the day of judgment has come!’ I sprang from my bed & rushed to the window, and saw the stars falling in great showers!

But looking back of them in the heavens I saw all the grand old constellations with which I was so well acquainted, fixed and true in their places. Gentlemen, the
world did not come to an end then, nor will the Union now.”

I thought this morning that I would add an observation:

Considering the circumstances, I believe the story exemplifies how well President Abraham Lincoln thinks and expresses himself.

I used the present tense because when you read history, you have to "live" in the "exact moment of that place and time."