Charles Benedict Calvert telegraph, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. On April 9, 1844, Morse and Vail successfully tested their device by transmitting a message from the nation's capital to the Calvert home, Riversdale. This test came 45 days before the more celebrated event when Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought?" from Washington to Baltimore, along telegraph lines that ran above the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line near Riversdale. Calvert became president of the Prince George's County, Maryland Agricultural Society and the Maryland State Agricultural Society, and served as vice president of the United States Pomological Society. He founded the first agricultural
Matthew 6:23 for jealousy and for stinginess. Thus this verse is likely linked to the discussion of wealth in the surrounding verses. The verse puts great emphasis on the depth of darkness that a poor spiritual eye will place a person in. Morris feels that it implies that those who are so blinded cannot even realize that they are in darkness. The metaphor of light as holiness and darkness as evil is also found in the Qumran literature and in the Gospel of John. Matthew 6:23 Matthew 6:23 is the twenty-third verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in