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The Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 740 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, was built in 1862 from a design by architect Hammatt Billings.〔King's handbook of Boston. 1881; p.162.〕 In the late 1960s it became the New Hope Baptist Church.〔New Hope Baptist Church. (About us ). Retrieved 2012-04-09〕 == History == Prior to 1862, the Methodist Episcopal congregation had occupied the Hedding Church on Pelham Street in Boston for some 20 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bromfield Street, Tremont Street, and People's Temple Methodist Church Records (Boston, Mass) )〕 The congregation's new church building, located at 740 Tremont Street, "is a large, Gothic, natural-quarry stone building, with two spires, respectively 150 feet and 100 feet high."〔 In 1869, several members of the Tremont Street Church congregation established the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The group of eight founders consisted of Mrs. Lewis Flanders; Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury; Mrs. William B. Merrill; Lois Lee Parker; Mrs. Thomas A. Rich; Mrs. H.J. Stoddard; and Mrs. P.T. Taylor.〔Frances J Baker. (The story of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1895 ) rev. ed. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curts, 1898.〕 The society grew quickly across the country, and by 1876 included "eight associated branches" in New England; New York and New Jersey; Pennsylvania and Delaware; Maryland, District of Columbia, and Eastern Virginia; Ohio, Western Virginia and Kentucky; Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin; Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Colorado; and Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.〔(The Heathen woman's friend ), v.8. Printed by Alfred Mudge and Son, for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1876; p.286.〕 By 1909, it was "the largest woman's foreign missionary society in the world."〔Founded 40 years; Notable Work of Society of Methodist Women. Has Raised Nearly $10,000,000 for Foreign Mission Cause. Boston Daily Globe, Apr 15, 1909. p.10.〕 Through the years, pastors of Tremont Church included John E. Cookman (c. 1874); William E. Huntington (c. 1881); C.E. Davis (c. 1901); Charles K. Jenness (c. 1914); and others.〔〔Tremont Street Methodist; First Sermon by the New Pastor, the Rev. John E. Cookman. Boston Daily Globe, May 4, 1874. p.2.〕〔Dr. Abbott answers critic; Boston Clergyman Accuses Plymouth Pastor of Advocating Saloons. New York Times, Dec 17, 1901. p.1.〕〔Appreciate social hour after service; Nearly 200 Young People Exchange Greetings. Experiment at the Tremont Street Church Proving Popular. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 16, 1914. p.16.〕 The building changed owners in the 1960s, and today houses the New Hope Baptist Church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=General Commission on Archives & History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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