Knox County Churches - Goodspeed (1887)

EARLY KNOX COUNTY CHURCHES

Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee (1887)

CHURCH OF CHRIST

(DISCIPLE’s CHURCH):

The Church of Christ, or Disciple’s Church as it is some times denominated, had its beginning in 1870; a few of that faith meeting in hired rooms and from house to house for prayer and Bible study. Gradually growing stronger they, on the first Lord’s day of September 1874, under the direction of L.H. STINE, a young minister, then just from school at Bethany, W.Va., united in a covenant to worship God according to the Holy Scripture, and became a regularly organized congregation with A.C. BRUCE as elder and N.R. HALL and George T. RHOADES as deacons. Their number at this time was eighteen, all poor. They have gradually increased until now they county seventy-six on the roll of membership. The present officers are

N.R. HALL and Lewis TILLMAN, elders;

T.P. McDANIEL, George T. RHOADES and M.O. COOLEY, deacons.

During the more than twelve years elapsing since their organization they have conducted the worship, and but few Lord’s days have passed without the meeting of the Sunday-school and the congregation in their regular service. The ministers who served the congregation at different times were

E.F. TAYLOR

A.S. JOHNSON

N.G. JACKS.

For a number of years the congregation met at the corner of Depot and Broad Streets, then at their church house on McGhee Street. Recently they have build a house of worship on Park Street, a very neat frame with a round tower and cathedral windows in front, and having a seating capacity of 500, and there they now regularly meet on Lord’s day. The church is now without a pastor, but efforts are begin made to have the pulpit filled for the coming year.

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