Good day fellow reseachers. This is the third of a one week's evaluation of an enlarged and expanded CHI TIH feature. If you wish to comment please follow instructions at the end of the article. Today in History (December 17): 1843 Charles Dickens' _A Christmas Carol_ was first published 1874 Eusebius Schultz Henkel, president of the Union Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, died 1879 American revivalist Gipsy Smith, as an older man, married a very young lady; when someone asked him why, he replied, "I'd rather smell perfume than liniment" 1900 Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America (CLBA) organized 1918 Interchurch World Movement of North America began - collapsed within two and a half years 1927 Elling Hove, professor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, died 1930 Jens Christian Roseland, Augustana Synod leader, died 1943 German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer confided in a letter from prison: "The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses" For this trial and evaluation to work and be worthwhile I ask that you help us by; 1) withholding your comments until Saturday the 18th of December so that you do not jump to any conclusions based on a limited viewing. 2) that you direct your comments to me or Mary and not to the mailing list. To do that please do not hit the reply button, but rather open a new e-letter, copy and paste one or both of our e-mail addresses, which are near the bottom of this message, into the address box of your new e-letter [if you use both addresses seperate them by a semicolon and a space]. All we need for your response to this trial is the acronym _ PSA _ in the subject line and your comments in the body of the e-letter. We do not need copies of this message unless you find fault with the message itself. If you wish to use these items, please get permission. Permission to post TIH items on LUTHERAN-ROOTS was received from Marvin A. Huggins, C.A., Associate Director Concordia Historical Institute (314)505-7921 801 De Mun Avenue FAX: (314)505-7901 St. Louis, MO 63105-3168 mhuggins@chi.lcms.org Web Page: http://chi.lcms.org/ for now, contributor John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net The list owner is Mary D. Taffet mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu