When I first published this information about fifteen years ago, the article was read at the White House Bible study by the teacher in charge. Whether anyone then--or since--has exorcised the building is unknown to me. A month ago, Charisma Magazine=s On-Line News Service contacted me for additional opinions about the article. They, and others, were concerned for the well-being of President Bush.
Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States in 1860, and immediately fell heir to the greatest internal conflict ever to rip the Nation: The Civil War. The President however, faced other struggles as well: The death of his little son, Willie, a mentally disturbed wife, and a curse initiated against him 20 years earlier in the 1840 election of William Harrison.
During Harrison's military career in which Native Americans were unjustly and violently driven from their lands, the Shawnee "Prophet," Tenskwatawa, in revenge, spoke a curse on the young white man. He predicted that someday Harrison would be elected "Great White Father," but, that he and every other "Father" chosen in the 20th, or "Zero" year, would die in office. Harrison was elected in 1840, caught pneumonia at his inauguration and within a matter of weeks was dead. Twenty years later, in the "Zero" year, 1860, Lincoln was elected.
After the death of their son, Mary Lincoln turned to spiritualism in the futile hope of gaining contact with the child. During the War, a wave of occultism swept the Nation as psychics preyed upon grieving families seeking information about their missing soldier-sons. Mary Lincoln was not exempt from that dark influence. Lincoln was not a believer in the occult, but at Mary's insistence, finally consented for a psychic medium, Mrs. Nettie Colburn Maynard, to hold a seance in the White House. The event, which achieved nothing for Mary, was held in the Red Room with the President sitting stony-faced and non-participating. This witchcraft rite, called "necromancy" is absolutely forbidden in Scripture. Deuteronomy 18:11. Though a committed Christian in other ways, Lincoln carelessly forgot the Bible warning: "Keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you become accursed." Joshua 6:18. Whether or not a curse from the seance or Tenskwatawa came upon the Presidency is open to dispute; but here are facts that conscientious Christians should know:
During the War, the Lincoln's son, Robert, who served in the Army, returned to Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, seeking his parents. They were at Ford's Theater and he hurried to join them. As Robert entered the building he was met by a group of men carrying out the body of his dead father. Lincoln had been shot.
Sixteen years later, on September 19, 1881, Robert Lincoln, who had become the United States Secretary of War, was requested by President James Garfield to accompany him to a college reunion. At the last minute Robert found himself unable to attend and hurried to the Union Railroad Station to inform the President. As he entered the building, he was met by a group of men carrying out the body of the dead President. Like his father, elected in the "Zero" year, President Garfield had been shot.
Twenty years later, on September 14, 1901, Robert Lincoln was invited by President James McKinley to be his guest at the Pan American Exposition. In the same pattern as his father, and James Garfield, McKinley had been elected in the "Zero" year. Lincoln accepted and went to the Exposition to join the President. As he entered the main building, he was met by a group of men carrying out the body of the dead President. James McKinley had been shot. With an incredible timing that seemed to mock him and the rest of the Nation, Robert Lincoln entered each of the three Presidential death-scenes at exactly the same haunting moment. More significant than Robert's experience is this fact: Beginning with Harrison's death, first to come
