This Day in History

I'll get back to posting articles soon, but here is a interesting resource: http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory. I've added to my RSS Feeds.

Here is what happended on this day in history (May 24th, 1884):
Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

If you recall a few posts back, I mentioned a book I am reading titled Building Godly Nations: Lessons from the Bible and America's Christian History by Stephen K. McDowell of the Providence Foundation. In this book he provides proof from Samuel Morse's own hand that he gave ALL THE GLORY TO GOD for his invention. Also, interestingly enough, Mr. Morse was NOT the one who selected this message. Annie Ellsworth, a friend of Morse's "selected a sentence from a prophecy of the ancient soothsayer Ballam." Of this sentence, Morse wrote to his brother:

"That sentence of Annie Ellsworth's was divinely indited, for it is in my thoughts day and night. 'What hath God wrought!' It is His work, and He alone could have carried me thus far through all my trials and enabled me to triumph over the obstacles, physical and moral, which opposed me" (page 8).