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OF PROPHECY AND THE PRESIDENCY
By Brad Steiger
February 17, 2014
It is not surprising that the Presidency, the highest office in the United States, should have been involved in many prophetic visions and dreams.
February 28, 1844, was to mark an event of great importance during President John Tyler's term of office. Leading social figures, diplomats, Congressmen, and military personnel had been invited by Captain Robert F. Stockton to come aboard the V.5.S. Princeton and witness a demonstration of two massive guns, the "Peacemaker" and the "Oregon."
On February 27th, the evening before the event, two ladies had a dream of impending disaster.
Julia Gardiner, daughter of Colonel David Gardiner, dreamed that she stood on the deck of the Princeton and watched in horror as two white horses galloped towards her across the sky. Mounted on the horses were two skeletons. As they rushed past the ship, one turned his head toward her. The grinning skull had been replaced by the visage of her father.
Julia (who later married President Tyler), begged her father not to attend the demonstration. "The dream was meant as a warning!" she insisted.
Colonel Gardiner scoffed. "I won't give up a President's reception because my foolish daughter had a nightmare," he told her.
Anne Gilmer, wife of the newly appointed Secretary of the Navy, had a similar ominous dream. She was still begging her husband to leave the Princeton, even after they had boarded the ship.
Secretary Gilmer was embarrassed by his wife's behavior. "How would it look if the Secretary of the Navy refused to attend the demonstration of two new naval guns?" he scolded her sharply.
"But everything was so real, so vivid," Anne Gilmer protested. .
"If I am to cancel my obligations every time my wife has a bad dream, I shall set a record for brevity of term as Secretary of the Navy," Thomas Gilmer said brusquely. "Now let's not hear any more about leaving this ship!"
Julia Gardiner was below deck when the explosion occurred. When she rushed up the companionway, she was told that her father and Thomas Gilmer had been crushed by a 2000-pound chunk of the "Peacemaker." The great gun had exploded while being test-fired at sea.
Julia Gardiner screamed, "My dream. It has come true!" Then she fainted.
Anne Gilmer, miraculously, had been unharmed as the massive metal fragment struck her husband.
All the way back on the sad return voyage, she repeated over and over again: "Why would he not listen to me?"
CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/prophecy-presidency-0217
OF PROPHECY AND THE PRESIDENCY
By Brad Steiger
February 17, 2014
It is not surprising that the Presidency, the highest office in the United States, should have been involved in many prophetic visions and dreams.
February 28, 1844, was to mark an event of great importance during President John Tyler's term of office. Leading social figures, diplomats, Congressmen, and military personnel had been invited by Captain Robert F. Stockton to come aboard the V.5.S. Princeton and witness a demonstration of two massive guns, the "Peacemaker" and the "Oregon."
On February 27th, the evening before the event, two ladies had a dream of impending disaster.
Julia Gardiner, daughter of Colonel David Gardiner, dreamed that she stood on the deck of the Princeton and watched in horror as two white horses galloped towards her across the sky. Mounted on the horses were two skeletons. As they rushed past the ship, one turned his head toward her. The grinning skull had been replaced by the visage of her father.
Julia (who later married President Tyler), begged her father not to attend the demonstration. "The dream was meant as a warning!" she insisted.
Colonel Gardiner scoffed. "I won't give up a President's reception because my foolish daughter had a nightmare," he told her.
Anne Gilmer, wife of the newly appointed Secretary of the Navy, had a similar ominous dream. She was still begging her husband to leave the Princeton, even after they had boarded the ship.
Secretary Gilmer was embarrassed by his wife's behavior. "How would it look if the Secretary of the Navy refused to attend the demonstration of two new naval guns?" he scolded her sharply.
"But everything was so real, so vivid," Anne Gilmer protested. .
"If I am to cancel my obligations every time my wife has a bad dream, I shall set a record for brevity of term as Secretary of the Navy," Thomas Gilmer said brusquely. "Now let's not hear any more about leaving this ship!"
Julia Gardiner was below deck when the explosion occurred. When she rushed up the companionway, she was told that her father and Thomas Gilmer had been crushed by a 2000-pound chunk of the "Peacemaker." The great gun had exploded while being test-fired at sea.
Julia Gardiner screamed, "My dream. It has come true!" Then she fainted.
Anne Gilmer, miraculously, had been unharmed as the massive metal fragment struck her husband.
All the way back on the sad return voyage, she repeated over and over again: "Why would he not listen to me?"
CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/prophecy-presidency-0217