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VOLUME FIVE
NUMBER ONE
" PEOPLE’S CHURCH” IN KNOXVILLE
7hirteen Hundred In Sunday School of Deaderick Abenue Baptist Church-House Recently Burned—Pastor C. B. Waller
Leading, His Valiant People in Predion of Nelv Building Seating 3,ooo—An Orphanage Tart of Church's Work.
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the weary, the fear of the vicious, and the positive
storm-center of the city’s religious life and moral and
civic upbuilding.
This cry of the masses has been heard more
and more in the South since Dr. Len G. Brough
ton began his wonderful work in Atlanta a dozen
years ago, building the famous Baptist Tabernacle,
preaching to more than three thousand people every
Sunday—nursing the sick, comforting the sorrow
ing, helping the unfortunate, feeding the hungry,
GREAT “people’s church” in every city
of fifty thousand people—that seems to
be the call of the hour, —a great, glo
rious democracy, free from formalism,
frills and folly—a church that is the
recognized preaching center of the city,
where the masses gather in their warm
hearted freedom and issue an everlasting
fiat against “ice in the pulpit” and ice in
church, please God, that is the hope of
ARE FOUR YEAks
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 24 1911.
teaching the ignorant and fighting the devil gen
erally.
And then came Wesley Memorial church, Atlanta,
the pride of Southern Methodism, beautiful in its
completeness and doing the same kind of glorious
work for the bodies as well as the souls of men.
Knoxville, the booming capital of the East Ten
nessee mountains, has heard this call of the people
in the remarkable growth and work of Deaderick
Avenue Baptist church, of which Rev. C. B. Waller
DEADERICK AVENUE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
is now the beloved, vigorous and victorious pastor.
“Great Oaks From Little Acornst Grow.”
That great results come from small beginnings, is
forcefully illustrated in the stirring history of the
Deaderick Avenue church, in Knoxville.
April 6th, 1890, a small company of earnest Chris
tions met in the home of “Mother” Leek, and began
plans for the establishment of a Baptist church,
in a then destitute center of the city. The fol
lowing Sunday afternoon the same little band met
in a store room on Asylum Street and organized
a mission Sunday school. They remained in this
store room as a mission for two and a half years
with Rev. J. Pike Powers as Missionary Pastor.
In September 1893, the “Centennial
church’ was organized with 81 members, with Rev. J.
K. Pace as Pastor. Deacon W. W. Woodruff, of the
First Baptist church donated the splendid lot which
is still occupied by the church, and a small church
house was built thereon, into which the congregation
then moved. Pastor Pace remained one year, when
Rev. J. H. Snow was called, and he served the church
faithfully eleven years. During his pastorate the
church grew greatly in membership and power, in
creasing from about one hundred twenty-seven to
more than six hundred members. The building was
enlarged several times to make room for the grow
ing work; and the people began to realize that the
Centennial Baptist Church had a great future. Rev.
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