There is only one week left in the Blessed Season of Easter.
Each day there are two posts, the first maybe dealing with a personality, the day, something from church history, miscellaneous subjects.
The second post (other than Sundays where "people coming back from the dead" has been the topic of discussion) pertains to the reading of the day.
It only takes a few minutes -- very insightful reflections.
May you continue to grow as we pray, "Come, Holy Spirit!"
Samuel Morse was a professional artist who distinguished himself as a portrait painter. In 1832, while returning by ship from studying art in Europe, Morse overheard a conversation about the newly discovered electromagnet. This set him think about what would come to be called the “telegraph.”
Morse began devoting more and more time to this project. In 1838 he developed a system of dots and dashes that would represent language (and which would be named after him).
In 1843 Congress appropriated $30,000 for Morse to construct a telegraph line between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore. The line was successfully installed and on this date 160 years ago, Morse telegraphed a message from the U. S. Capitol to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore: “What hath God wrought?”
Within 10 years, over 20,000 miles of telegraph cable crisscrossed the country. Just as the railroad train revolutionized travel, so did the telegraph revolutionize communication.
Morse’s message was taken from the Book of Numbers (23:23) which continues the story of the Exodus from the end of the encampment at Mr. Sinai, to the arrival at the border of the Promised Land.
At one point, Balaam, a prophet, speaks a promising message from God about the Israelites: “It shall be said of Jacob, ‘See what God has done!”