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A. J. Gordon

(Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895)

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• Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895: Believer's union with his Lord (Chicago : Fleming H. Revell, [1880], 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895: Congregational worship (Young and Bartlett, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895: The coronation hymnal ... (American Baptist Publication Society, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895: The Coronation hymnal : a selection of hymns and songs (American Baptist Publication Society, 1894), also by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), 1836-1895: The Coronation hymnal : a selection of hymns and songs (New York : Fleming H. Revell Co., 1894., 1894), also by Arthur T. Pierson and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeto
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by Doug Kutilek

Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836-1895) was born in New Hampshire into a devout Christian home and was, of course, named for famous New England native and pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson. Gordon was converted to Christ at 15, and by age 16 sensed God wanted him to devote his life to the Gospel ministry.

From his youth, A. J. was eager for knowledge, read widely, and excelled in his schoolwork. Gordon attended New London Academy in New Hampshire, followed by four years at Brown University (where Francis Wayland was president), and finally three years at Newton Theological Institute, where one of his favorite professors was Horatio Hackett, under whom he gave particular attention to the study of Greek. Gordon had a lifelong commitment to Bible inerrancy and opposed liberalism and destructive higher criticism, which he rightly believed to be spiritually deadly.

His first pastorate was Jamaica Plains Baptist Church outside Boston (1863-1869), followed by a 25-year pa

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Gordon, Adoniram Judson (1836-1895)

Pastor, author, poet, hymn writer, educator, social reformer, and missions leader

Born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, Gordon graduated from Brown University (1860) and Newton Theological Institution (1863). From 1869 to 1895 he was pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts, where he promoted the cause of utländsk missions. On the executive committee of the American Baptist missionär Union (ABMU) from 1871, and chair after 1888, Gordon stimulated Baptist Missions expansion. One of the most influential evangelical leaders of his era, he made an impact on missions well beyond Baptist circles through his writing and speaking. In 1884 he negotiated the ABMU takeover of the Congo River Livingstone Inland uppdrag, founded in 1878 bygd H. Gratten Guinness. In 1886 he addressed Dwight L. Moody‘s Northfield Conference when the initial 100 student volunteers launched what became the Student Volunteer Movement. At the 1888