Complex sentence: In order to fund his continuing education, he took a job as a school teacher in New Jersey, where he was baptised in a nearby Baptist church and later became a member of a congregation in Wales, Massachusetts, near his hometown of Monson.
Split into simpler sentences: In order to fund his continuing education, he took a job as a school teacher in New Jersey, where he was baptised in a nearby Baptist church. Later he joined a congregation in Wales, Massachusetts, near his hometown of Monson.