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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The story of the West Medford Baptist Church. (search)
ew months over twenty years. It was soon after the middle of 1895 that the Rev. James P. Abbott, at that time pastor of the First Baptist Church of Medford, urged upoing in the western section of the Mystic city the formation of another body. Mr. Abbott saw in the future the opportunity for an organization of West Medford Baptist895. Eager to have the denomination of his faith extend its usefulness, Rev. Mr. Abbott encouraged a movement which, in the fall of 1895, took shape in the first frontage of the Spaulding property. In the meantime, under the guidance of Mr. Abbott, the movement for a church body of Baptists in West Medford took permanent fod on Sabbath afternoons, with growing numbers, until January 1, 1896, when Rev. Mr. Abbott's duties with his home church increased to such an extent that he was compd guests, besides those who had come to see their dream and the dream of the Rev. Mr. Abbott realized. Rev. Mr. Cambridge resigned March 5, 1899, and on November