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ADONIRAM JUDSON GORDON - A BIOGRAPHY BY HIS SON ERNEST B. GORDON - H/B. Happyfish Books (); % positive feedback.
His father, a Calvinist, was named after John Calvin.!
Healing and Revival
A.J. Gordon was born in New Hampton, New Hampshire April 13, 1836 the second of nine children.
His parents were John Calvin and Sallie (Robinson) Gordon.
Gordon R. Lewis.They were devout Christians and named their son after American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson (17881850). What a heritage to start life with! At 15 he committed his life to Christ, and at 20 felt called to be a minister.
He went to college and then seminary. Upon graduation he accepted a pastorate near Boston, and stayed there six years. He then moved to the Clarendon Street Baptist Church in Boston, where he would meet and reveal Christ in a new way.
In the fall of , Baptist pastor Adoniram Judson Gordon founded the Boston Missionary Training Institute, later named after him, Gordon.
Clarendon Street Church was in poor spiritual condition. Singers were hired from the local opera to sing, the pews were rented, and the lost were not welcome. Gordon's heart was broken over the state of the church. One night Gordon fell asleep while preparing his sermon and had a dream.
In this dream he was preaching to his congregati