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February (search for this): chapter 3
sions of the most tender and affectionate regard for the petitioners, and of deep regret at parting with so many valuable members, were granted. Many others who were not members of the church withdrew from the congregation to unite with the seventeen in establishing separate worship. To provide for the financial wants of the new enterprise, a society called The Second Congregational Society of Medford was organized June 22, 1823, and incorporated by legislative enactment the following February. A hall in the neighborhood was soon fitted up as a temporary place of worship, and the pulpit was supplied by neighboring clergymen, and by students from the Theological Seminary at Andover, till October 2, when the seventeen members from the First Church, with nine members of other churches, who had removed lately to Medford, and had brought with them letters of dismission, were organized into a church by an ecclesiastical council, of which Rev. William Greenough, of Newton, was moder
February 21st (search for this): chapter 3
d his resignation, and the church by unanimous vote ordered the following record to be made: Resolved, That in accepting the resignation of the Rev. Charles H. Baldwin, after a pastorate of nearly six years, we do it with profound regret and with a clear conviction that we are to lose a most active, discreet, and affectionate pastor; a most earnest, faithful, and efficient preacher; a most genial and sympathetic friend; and a citizen most philanthropic and valuable. He was dismissed February 21, and a week later was installed over a large Presbyterian church in Amsterdam, N. Y., where he labored for the next seventeen years, till an affection of the throat demanded for him a change of climate. From Amsterdam he went to Des Moines, where in one year he put new life into a small church which seemed almost ready to die, and placed it upon a firm foundation. Thus ended his thirty-two years in the ministry, and, excepting the year spent in Europe, he had been in constant service,
March 13th (search for this): chapter 3
lism in that new and distant territory, was born in Garnavillo, Iowa, March 14, 1848. He graduated from Iowa College in 1871 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1875. Sept. 15, 1875, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the North Church, in Lynn, Mass. From that church he was called to Medford, and installed Jan. 12, 1887. After a pastorate of more than seven years he read his letter of resignation March 4, 1894, and a special meeting of the church was called to act upon it March 13. At that meeting remarks were made by the officers of the church, and many others, all expressive of their exceedingly pleasant and tender relations with the pastor, their kind and pleasant remembrance of his work for our church and in our city, and their sincere regret that a termination of his active personal labors here was proposed. Upon accepting his resignation the church voted unanimously as follows: That this church has heard with great regret our pastor's letter of resignati
March 29th (search for this): chapter 3
the ten years from 1843), and the new railroad was just then opened to the centre of the town. Then, too, the size of the congregation seemed to forebode the necessity of enlarging the church edifice in the near future if there were no separation. At the suggestion of Rev. Mr. Baker, the pastor, two neighboring ministers were named by him and two by Deacon James, to whom the whole matter of organizing a new church should be referred, and their advice was to be final. They met on the 29th of March and, after listening to all the pros and cons, came promptly and decidedly to the conclusion that a new church should be formed immediately. Separate worship was begun in the Town Hall on Sunday, May 9, 1847. The largest attendance at any of the nine services held before the church was formally organized was one hundred and eighty-four. The organization was effected July 6, 1847, seven churches and four specially invited ministers composing the council. The sermon was by the Rev. D
March 30th (search for this): chapter 3
ev. Mr. Hooker, pastor of the Mystic Church, should be settled over the united organizations. The overture of the Mystic Church was not made on account of any financial embarrassment, inasmuch as the society always had been and was then on a good financial foundation, but, as it was stated in one of the kind and fraternal letters which passed between the churches, that the cause of truth and religion would be better promoted by the union. At a special meeting of the First Church held March 30 the majority of those present favored the union on the terms proposed, but the minority was so large that it was deemed best to let the matter drop, and the subject was not again agitated till 1874. In the meantime a Congregational church, organized at West Medford, had drawn many valuable members from the First Church, which seemed to make it the more reasonable that but one organization of that order should exist at the centre of the town, and the resignation of Mr. Cobb made it the more
April (search for this): chapter 3
a most useful man. But in the faith which he cherished so long and clearly, we can also rejoice in the belief that our loss is his gain; and in that faith we would feel his new entreaties from the better land to come up higher, and that we can leave our and his church to the guidance of the Great Shepherd who doeth all things well, and that we should keep on praying that such faith may enable us, as we believe it has him, To pass through Glory's morning gate And walk in Paradise. In April a call was extended to the Rev. Charles H. Baldwin. Charles H. Baldwin. Rev. (now D. D.) Charles Hume Baldwin was born in Windsor, Mass., March 11, 1838; graduated from Williams College, 1863, and from Union Theological Seminary, 1866; spent one year in special study; was ordained and settled over the Second Presbyterian Church in Peekskill, N. Y., April 30, 1867; was settled in 1869 over the Presbyterian Church in Johnstown, N. Y., one of the oldest and most important in the presbyter
April 25th (search for this): chapter 3
, and their sincere regret that a termination of his active personal labors here was proposed. Upon accepting his resignation the church voted unanimously as follows: That this church has heard with great regret our pastor's letter of resignation and desires to place on record its appreciation of his pure Christian character, his consistent life and faithful teachings, and his devotion and loyalty in the service of this church. A council representing seventeen churches was convened April 25, and, having reviewed the action of pastor and people, voted to dismiss him. In their result, the following is embodied: The council expresses its high appreciation of the courteous and Christian conduct of both pastor and people in this conference, one with the other, and the integrity and simplicity of motive leading to the severance of the sacred relation of pastor and people. The council also recognizes those happy and sterling qualities of mind and heart which have made Broth
April 27th (search for this): chapter 3
came to Medford. During his pastorate in Janesville, being much interested in education, he was, by State appointment, made a visitor to the Normal School at Whitewater and a lecturer before the Teachers' Associations. He was installed in Medford Nov. 16, 1881, and dismissed May 12, 1886, to assume the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy, N. Y., where he has most successfully labored to the present time. By a unanimous vote of the church the following record was made April 27, upon the receipt of his letter of resignation: Though extremely reluctant to part with a pastor who has been so successful among us and is so highly esteemed by all his flock, we yet recognize the importance of the position to which he has been called, and therefore, though with sincere regret, accept his resignation. Rev. James L. Hill was his successor. James L. Hill. Rev. James Langdon Hill, D. D., a son of Rev. James J. Hill, one of the eleven who, upon graduating from Andove
July 9th (search for this): chapter 3
The second Congregational and Mystic churches. by Charles Cummings. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, Nov. 20, 1899.] Rev. Doctor Osgood, pastor of the First and only church then existing in Medford, died in December, 1822. Early in the following year the Rev. Andrew Bigelow became a candidate for settlement as Doctor Osgood's successor. The majority of the church were pleased with his services, and proposed his installation, which took place July 9; but a minority, recognizing that his theological views did not harmonize with their own, deemed it expedient to withdraw from that church, and form a new one. Accordingly seventeen members, in a very courteous and Christian manner, asked for letters of dismission, which, accompanied with expressions of the most tender and affectionate regard for the petitioners, and of deep regret at parting with so many valuable members, were granted. Many others who were not members of the church withdrew from the congregation to
July 29th (search for this): chapter 3
on Sunday, May 9, 1847. The largest attendance at any of the nine services held before the church was formally organized was one hundred and eighty-four. The organization was effected July 6, 1847, seven churches and four specially invited ministers composing the council. The sermon was by the Rev. Dr. Kirk, of the Mt. Vernon Church, and the address constituting the church was by the Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher of the Salem-street Church in Boston. The church consisted of sixty members. July 29 Nathaniel Jaquith, Galen James, Jotham Stetson and John Stetson were chosen deacons. All of them had held the same office in the mother church, and the last named, who had served in that church for eight years, continued faithfully to discharge the duties of the office till his death, in 1899, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. The Mystic Society was legally organized Aug. 13, 1847. The land on which the building now stands on Salem street was soon purchased, and a house capable of
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