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).

A Blessing to Her Father

I know it may seem like a small thing, but my oldest daughter (9 years old) has blessed her father with a pair of newly mended socks. So I'd like to say thank you, I love you, and they feel great!

My Busy Schedule

Whatever is left of my "readership" will know that it has been over a month since I last posted anything. The reason for this is that I have been extremely busy. What have I been so busy with?

I am now the webmaster for the web sites belonging to The Chalcedon Foundation (http://www.chalcedon.edu & http://www.chalcedonstore.com).

The previous webmaster, Darlene Selbrede, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. You can contribute to the Darlene Selbrede Memorial Fund which has been created in her memory. Darlene passionately put in several years of work on this website and I am honored to have been asked to take on the role as the new webmaster.

Right now I am working on some back-end changes that will hopefully make way for an increased level of service to Chalcedon's customers -- some of these are already in place -- many more are to come.