Morning Fellow List Members, In the spirit of the holidays I am forwarding links to several sites that I maintain. I will describe them as I provide the link to the page. Online I have posted the images for the 1883 "Gospel Messenger". This was, and still is, as "The Messenger" the voice for the Church of the Brethren. The "Gospel Messenger" was the merging, in 1883, of two newspapers. "The Primitive Christian" was a consolidation of earlier newspapers tracing their roots back to Henry Kurtz and "The Gospel Visiter" (aka Visitor) of Poland, Ohio. The chief officers were Elders James Quinter and J. H. Moore, both serving as the "Western Department" editors from Illinois. The other newspaper, "The Pilgrim", had been based in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where the principal editor had been Elder H. B. Brumbaugh who served as the "Eastern Department" editor. You may view this series of pages at 1883 Gospel Messenger <http://brethrenarchives.com/Free/Papers/GM/1883/index.htm> . Many may have heard of the book, "Some Who Led", by Elder D. L. Miller and Bro. Galen B. Royer. This book details a selection of early elders and ministers of the German Baptist church. The online version is a typeset edition, by the author of this email, created several years ago. My thanks to the several contributors, whose names are listed in the credits of the page to which they contributed, for their invaluable assistance. The table of contents and the generated index provide Internet links to the applicable pages. You may view this book at Some Who <http://brethrenarchives.com/Free/Book/001/index.html> Led. This next series of Internet sites is one involving photographs of the late 19th and early 20th Century. It is a collection of some 250+ glass plate negatives created by Samuel Bender Fluke (1840-1935), son of Henry Snyder Fluke (1815-1899) and Elizabeth 'Bender' Fluke (1814-1894). Samuel Fluke was born and raised in Morrison's Cove, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and was an avid photographer of the region. He traveled north into Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania and into Somerset county as well taking photographs. For many years his photographs have served as a well spring of the imagery of the farming community from which many Brethren communities of the west trace their lineage from. Those which have been identified include familial information as metadata applicable to that image. I have been working on this collection for several years now but only recently have I released it to the Internet. There are more to come. You may view this collection at Samuel <http://brethrenarchives.com/Free/Photos/Set%20001/index.html> Fluke Collection. Please be forewarned that you likely will not be able to copy any of the images. You may as well have difficulties printing pages. The initial site of each group may take some time to load into your web browser. This is because of the use of thumbnail images for navigation purposes. I did the best web coding that I could with the tools that I have; my apologies for the amateurish look and feel. Take the pages and content as they are offered and in the context and generosity in which they are presented. Please feel free to forward this email and the links to any other lists to which you, the readers, may belong. Happy Holidays. Wayne Webb Past Editor: Brethren Roots Historian: German Baptist Church