“But looking back of them in the heavens,” Lincoln said, “I saw all the grand old constellations with which I was so well acquainted, fixed and immoveable and true in their places. Lincoln threw open the window and saw fearful neighbors in the road and, above them, a spectacular sky lit up by the Leonid shower of meteors. “Abe! Abe! Wake up! The day of Judgment has come,” the landlord shouted. When Lincoln was a young man in Illinois, in 1833, he was roused from his bed late one night by his frantic landlord. Although the story was omitted from a recent movie about Lincoln, is still worth recalling. Abraham Lincoln used to tell a story during the darkest days of the Civil War.
