{"id":369,"date":"2019-10-20T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy2\/?p=369"},"modified":"2023-07-08T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:48:52","slug":"the-history-of-the-lds-church-in-northcutts-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/the-history-of-the-lds-church-in-northcutts-cove\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the LDS Church in Northcutts Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

submitted by: Greg Curtis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles A. Callis<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Northcutt\u2019s Cove Chapel is the oldest standing meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in the Southeastern United States. The Building was constructed and paid for by local members, friends, and Missionaries. John Tipton, A Church member in Northcutt\u2019s Cove, donated the land on which the building stands. Charles A. Callis, President of the Southern States Mission and Later a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles dedicated the chapel 24 October 1909. At the time of the building\u2019s completion, Northcutt\u2019s Cove was headquarters for the Church\u2019s East Tennessee Conference. The Chapel became Center for disseminating Latter-day Saint teachings in the state. It was the site of a Three-day debate (24-26 Oct 1909) Between Charles A. Callis and Reverend Mansfield a Church of Christ (Campbellite) minister. As was so often the case, the \u201cgold bible\u201d and Joseph Smith became the central issue. The outcome, according at least to the mission publication, the Liahona, was that \u201cthe Lord softened the hearts of the people and made manifest the truth of His word.\u201d Latter-day Saints considered the unbiased newspaper reports of the debate to be a fair representation of the Church as a positive, growing Christian Religion. On 18 April 1979, The Northcutt\u2019s Cove Chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LDS missionaries would come thru the area and preach the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. When they approached John Tipton he turned them away but before they left one of the Elders dusted off his shoes. John\u2019s wife noticed what had happened and insisted that they hear what the Missionaries had to say. The next day he invited the missionaries in and was later, baptized into the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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submitted by: Greg Curtis The Northcutt\u2019s Cove Chapel is the oldest standing meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in the Southeastern United States. The Building was constructed and paid for by local members, friends, and Missionaries. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}