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“It would have been a lot harder had they needed to rely on verbal directions. A modern sign, the kind with changeable lettering, stood at the front of the drive. It read, Kelley’s Chase Primitive Baptist Church, and beneath that, And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13:13.Lindsay parked her SUV, and she and Lewis got out. She stood looking at the church. It was a plain, rectangular vernacular building with white board siding and a simple steeple. A brass plaque next to the front doors said, Founded in 1810. The survey report said the original building burned in 1830 and a new one was built fifty feet away. Since then the church had been added onto and restored several times.There were no cars around, but she knocked on the church door anyway. No one answered. She tried the door, but it was locked.“Are you sure we want to be here?” asked Lewis. “We’re really way back in the mountains.”“We’re about five miles from the sit...e as the crow flies.”“Unfortunately, we aren’t crows.”“No one here.”MoreLess
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