This is the Pleasant Hope Primitive Baptive Church... Where is it?

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This is the Pleasant Hope Primitive Baptive Church... Where is it?

Now, here’s your new mystery. This is the Pleasant Hope Primitive Baptist Church, no longer occupied.

Do you know where it is?

It does have its yard cut and a cared-for cemetery is nearby, but otherwise all is quiet. Do you know about the Primitive Baptist Church? Here are a few highlights.

-- Feet-washing is practiced in nearly every meeting.

-- No musical instruments. In fact, no written music at all. Hymns are simply words written down like poems. The congregation sings from that.

-- The minister doesn’t prepare a sermon. He simply walks down, opens the Bible and from wherever that page opens, he takes his sermon.

-- No Sunday School or children’s classes. Everyone sits together.

-- “Primitive” doesn’t mean uncultivated. It means original.

Cass County’s Primitive Baptist Church closed in 2013 but certainly is still a lovely and interesting building. Its Pleasant Hope Cemetery is idyllic. At its entrance is a single, huge and welcoming oak tree. In this shade of this tree is one two-seater stone bench.

Otherwise, in this restful cemetery, one stands.

Do you know where the church and cemetery are?

(Need a hint? Don’t be in a huff if you don’t know.)

Return next week for the answer and more about the Pleasant Hope Primitive Baptist Church.