With the newly constructed fifth house of worship, the closing years of the 19th century were creative years in the life of the church. Under the leadership of the Rev. Henry Orrn Hiscox, new ideas were conveived in the mind of the church which led to new traditions in carrying out its ministry.
In 1893, the Senior Department of Sunday School conducted an entire evening service with dignity and dedication that won the praise of adults and led to generations of Youth Sundays. Communion had traditionally been served from a few large communal cups, but now, with the addition of smaller individual cups, all could partake simultaneously at the Lord’s table. As evidence of the spread and acceptance of our Baptist beliefs in Malden, two satellite Sunday School Chapels were established. The first at 96 Boylston St and the second at Cross St. Both would flourish for many years.So it was the church heralded in a new century, full of hope and expectation, full of plans, and full of dreams. Could her second hundred years parallel and even surpass the first century of activity and growth?
Source: One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of The First Baptist Church of Malden (1803-1978), 1st Edition by Dorothy L. Foxon, May 1979.
One Hundred and Ninety Five Years of The First Baptist Church of Malden (1803-1998), Addendum to 175th Church History by Rev. Martha A. Dominy