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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ow occupied by you will not be at your service after this day. N. Wilkinson, Sub-School Committee, Ward One. The friends of the school thereupon hired a lot of the city, near the school-house, and erected a neat and commodious chapel,—at a cost, including furnishing, of $1,411.81, Memorial of the North Avenue Sabbath School, p. 21. which was dedicated Oct. 31, 1852, and was called Our Sabbath Home. Religious meetings were held in the chapel on Thursday evenings, through the winter. In May, 1853, regular sabbath services were established, and Rev. Alexander M. Averill, a graduate of the Newton Theological Institution, soon became the stated preacher. A meeting-house was erected in 1854, on the northwesterly side of Coggswell Avenue, near North Avenue, which was dedicated Feb. 15, 1855. The Sabbath-school chapel was soon afterwards removed, and connected with the new meeting-house; ten years later the house was greatly enlarged and beautified, and was reopened on the nineteenth a