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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
but, while his discourses were scholarly and spiritual, he is said not to have been over-lenient toward those parishioners whose opinions and methods of work did not accord with his own, and that sometimes invidious personalities crept into his sermons. If that were so, the fact may have had a tendency to hasten the formation of the Baptist Church, which drew somewhat from his congregation in 1842, and of the Mystic Church, which took sixty members from his fold in 1847. He married Miss Harriet Woods, one of the refined and cultured daughters of the distinguished professor of Andover Theological Seminary. After leaving Medford she became the author of several attractive and useful books for the Sunday-school. They had five sons, of whom one became a doctor of medicine and four became Episcopal clergymen. Upon his dismissal from Medford Doctor Baker became an agent of the Massachusetts Sunday-School Society for one year, then preached in Lynn, 1850-56; in West Needham, 1857-