Jan­u­ary 23, 1853, Aber­deen­shire, Scot­land.

Gordon em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca with his sis­ter in 1871. His works in­clude:

• The Christ of To-day, 1895
• The Witness to Im­mor­tal­i­ty in Li­ter­a­ture, Phil­o­so­phy and Life (New York: Hough­ton, Miff­lin & Com­pa­ny, 1897)
• The New Epoch for Faith (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Hough­ton, Miff­lin and Com­pa­ny, 1901)
• Revela­tion and the Ideal (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Hough­ton, Miff­lin and Com­pa­ny, 1913)
• Aspects of the In­fin­ite Mys­te­ry, 1916
• Humanism in New Eng­land The­ol­o­gy, 1920
• My Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­li­gion, an Au­to­bi­o­graphy, 1925

1. O Will of God Be­neath Our Life