The first words posted on Twitter? First words sent by e-mail? What about God's first words?
It's easy to remember some of the last words of famous and infamous people -- you know, those last utterances before they exit the stage into oblivion. Like Civil War Union General John Sedgwick who, looking across a field at a bunch of Confederate snipers, said to his nervous aide, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" (See "Famous Last Words" in the March-April 2003 issue of Homiletics).
But what about famous first words? You know, those words that launched some new venture or discovery. Sure, we remember Neil Armstrong's first words upon stepping on to the moon: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." And Alexander Graham Bell's first words spoken on the telephone in 1875: "Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to see you.". But lots of other first words that signaled the beginning of important events or technological advances, while less familiar, were no less revolutionary.
Many of these famous first words, like Bell's call for his assistant, were uttered...
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