JUNE 1

Means of Communication

The telephone is one of the wondrous blessings of God. This wondrous invention converts spoken words into electrical waves, transmits them along a line and reconverts them into sound so true that there is often no need to ask who is at the other end.

Through the telephone it has become possible to contact people living in any part of the world. For instance, if you are in India and you want to speak to the President of the United States in Washington or the Queen of Britain in London, you have only to press the buttons of the following digits:

00-1-202-456-1414

00-44-1-930-4832

and you will immediately be connected with the office of the person concerned.

The first telephone was installed in the office of Charles Williams in Massachusetts on April 4, 1877. Today such telephones are installed in millions of homes all over the world. John Brooks in his book, ‘Telephone: The First Hundred Years,’ writes: “Man, instead of making himself heard a few hundred yards away with a shout, can make himself heard around the world with a whisper.”

Telephones and all other such means of communication are blessings of God. They are there to be used for the communication of His message. But such blessings are used to the maximum for all purposes other than the communication of the divine message. What a strange example of the misuse of God’s blessings!