{"id":1809,"date":"2020-12-28T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/?page_id=1809"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:39:10","slug":"archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Past issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find recent issues on the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/digital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital <em>Messenger<\/em> page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find subscription information here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Messenger<\/em> issues from 2000 to the most recent complete year may be accessed via the navigation links above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/brethrendigitalarchives?and%5B%5D=Messenger&amp;sin=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gospel Visitor\/Gospel Messenger\/Messenger issues from 1851-2000<\/a> are included in the Brethren Digital Archives. It is easiest to find them by choosing to sort by &#8220;Title&#8221; and then clicking on G (for Gospel Messenger) for issues from 1883 to 1964 or M (for Messenger) for issues from 1965 to 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to 1883, publications were named the <em>Gospel Visitor<\/em> or Visiter, <em>Christian Family Companion<\/em>, <em>Primitive Christian<\/em>, <em>The Pilgrim<\/em>, and <em>Brethren at Work<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rothweb.com\/publications\/Pubication-history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications.jpg\" alt=\"diagram of early German Baptist Brethren (Church of the Brethren) publications\" class=\"wp-image-5342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications.jpg 948w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications-848x654.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/publications-560x432.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Click for the <a href=\"https:\/\/rothweb.com\/publications\/Pubication-history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source of the diagram and additional information<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find recent issues on the Digital Messenger page. Find subscription information here. Messenger issues from 2000 to the most recent complete year may be accessed via the navigation links above. Gospel Visitor\/Gospel Messenger\/Messenger issues from 1851-2000 are included in the Brethren Digital Archives. It is easiest to find them by choosing to sort by &#8220;Title&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}