Emphasis Preaching Journal

Not many people remember the days when news and other messages traveled by telegraph. Wires were strung from place to place and a transmitter, in some distant place, would activate electrical impulses sent through the wire. At the receiving end, the telegraph key, a silent and powerless piece of brass, would suddenly jiggle and jump, clack and rattle, as the message crackled across the wires. The noise was meaningless, except to operators who could understand the code and translate it into letters and words. Then the message took shape and made sense.