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“Missionary Baptist Church” in Cades
Cove
by Steve Norris
It’s a bright and sunny day in mid-spring and you can easily
imagine how it must have been in the days when the God-fearing
locals met at this Smoky Mountain church for Sunday Meetin’. You
can see the old and young alike gathering for a few old hymns
and a little “hellfire and brimstone” from the preacher. Souls
were saved and lives renewed before everyone loaded up on
horse-drawn wagons and carriages for the ride home in the Cove.
This was a place that helped build America and its legacy lives
on in the descendents of Cades Cove.
This painting shows the spring colors at their most dazzling and
the details at their most delicate. You can see the mockingbird
on the rock, but can you find the deer?
This church building dates from 1915. The church was originally
formed in 1839 by members of the Primitive Baptist Church who
were dismissed because they favored supporting missionary work.
This was a national issue that concerned Baptists everywhere.
During the Civil War the church ceased to meet, but reopened
after the war with a revised membership list. Confederate
sympathizers were absent. Membership started at forty and
eventually grew to 115 before the church closed in 1944.
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