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9, and Mr. Fales has remained Rector until the present time. The first Methodist preaching in Waltham of which we find a record, was at the house An excellent engraving of this house is given on the title-page of Stevens's Memorials of Methodism. of Abraham Bemis, by Bishop Asbury, Saturday, July 19, 1794. In 1798 a meeting-house, simply a boarded enclosure, with a platform for the preacher and rough board seats, was put up in the north part of Weston. In 1834 they had preaching at Mr. Ropes's school-room on Church Street, and in 1836 they began to occupy the Masonic Hall on Main Street. In the spring of 1837 a site was procured and a contract made for building a church on Church Street, when the opportunity was offered to purchase the meeting-house of the Second Religious Society (Rev. Bernard Whitman's) on the Common. Dr. Theodore Kittredge and Rev. George Pickering met the Committee of the Unitarian Society at the house of Dr. Hobbs, Agent of the Boston Manufacturing Compa