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4-17 4 vols London, 1808-14; D. Neal. Hist, of the Puritans iv. 172-173, 455-456, ed. of 1S22; A. F Mitchell, The Westminster Assembly, p. 214, New York, 1883; DXB. xxii. 148-150.
GOOSE BIBLE. See Bible Versions, B, 1 V., § 9.
GORDON, ADONIRAM JUDSON: Baptist; b. at New Hampton, N. H., Apr. 19, 1836; d. at Boston Feb. 2, 1895 He was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1860) and Newton Theological Institution (1863). In 1863 he became pastor at Jamaica Plain, Mass., where he remained six years. From 1S69 until his death he was pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, which became, under his leadership, a center of revivals and of philanthropic work. He also established a school for the training of missionaries and pastors' assistants. He described himself as " a prohibitionist in temperance reform; a supporter and colaborer with D. L. Moody in his evangelistic movement; Low-church in ecclesiology, and premillennial in eschatology." He prepared New Vestry Hymn and Tune Book (Boston, 1872) and wrote In Christ : or, The Believer's Union with his Lord (1872); Congregational Worship (1872); Grace and Glory (sermons, 1881); Ministry of Healing (1882); The Twofold Life (1884); Ecce Yenit: Behold He Cometh (New- York, 1889); The Holy Spirit in Missions (1893); The Ministry of the Spirit (Philadelphia, 1894); and the posthumous Yet Speaking (New York, 1897).
GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM: Presbtyerian Church of Canada; b. at Indian Lands, Ont., Sept. 13, 1860. He was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1SS3), and Knox College, Toronto (1S87), and pursued postgraduate studies at New College, Edinburgh. He was classical master in the high school at Chatham, Ont. (1883-84) and in Upper Canada College, Toronto (1886-87), and tutor in Knox College (1884-87). He was a missionary at Banff, Alberta (1890-93), and since 1894 has been minister of St. Stephen's Church, Winnipeg. In theology he accepts the modern interpretation of Evangelical doctrines. He has written, under the pseudonym of " Ralph Conner," Black Rock (Chicago, 1898); Beyond the Marshes (1899); The Sky Pilot (1899); Ould Michael (1900); The Man from Glengarry (1901); Glengarry School Days (1902); The Prospector (1904); The Pilot at Swan Creek (London, 1905); Breaking the Record (Chicago, 1905); and The Doctor (1906).
GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER: Congregationalism b. at Oyne (18 m. n.w. of Aberdeen), Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1853. He was educated at Bangor Theological Seminary and Harvard University (B.A., 1881). He was pastor at Greenwich, Conn., in 188U84, and since 1884 has been pastor of the Old South Church, Boston. He was lecturer in the Lowell Institute course in 1900 and Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale in the following year, in addition to being university preacher at Harvard in 1886-90 and at Yale in 1888-1901. He has written The Witness to Immortality (Boston, 1893); The Christ of To-Day (1895); Immortality and the new Theodicy (1897); The New Epoch for Faith (1901); and Through Man to God (1906).
GORDON, JOHN: Presbyterian; b. at Pittsburg, Pa., Mar. 10, 1850. He was educated at the Western University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1866), Auburn Theological Seminary (1868-71), and Union Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1871. He held successive pastorates at Rensselaerville, N. Y. (1S71-79), the First Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Neb. (1880-82), the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg (1884-86), and Westminster Church, Omaha, Neb. (1887-97). He was also professor of ecclesiastical history in Omaha Theological Seminary (1891-99); president of Tabor College, Tabor, la. (1901-03), and president of Howard University, Washington (1903-06). He has written Three Children of Galilee (Boston, 1895).
GORE, CHARLES: Anglican bishop of Birmingham; b. at Wimbledon (8 m. s.w. of London), Surrey, Jan. 22, 1853. He was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1875), and was ordained priest in 1878. He was fellow of Trinity College, Oxford (1875-95), vice-principal of Cuddesdon College (1880-83), and librarian of Pusey House, Oxford (1884-93). Flis advanced theological views led to his resignation, however, and after being vicar of Radley, Oxfordshire (1893- 1894), he was appointed canon of Westminster in 1894. He retained this position until 1902, being also honorary chaplain to the queen in 1898-1900, and chaplain in ordinary to her in 1900-01 and to the king in the latter year. In 1902 he was consecrated bishop of Worcester, and two years later was translated to the see of Birmingham. He was the editor of the famous Lux Mundi (London, 1890), to which he also contributed the chapters on The Holy Spirit and Inspiration, and wrote Leo the Great (London, 1880); The Church and the Ministry (1889); Roman Catholic Claims (1889); The Mission of the Church (1891); The Incarnation of the Son of God (Bampton Lectures, 1891); Dissertations (1896); The Creed of the Christian (1896); The Sermon on the Mount (1897); The Athanasian Creed (1897); Prayer and the Lord's Prayer (1898); The Body of Christ (1901); The Spiritual Efficiency of the Church (1904); The Permanent Creed (1905); and The New Theology and the Old Religion (1907). He commented on Ephesians (London, 1898) and Romans (1899), and edited G. Romanes' Thoughts on Religion (London, 1894); and Essays in Aid of the Reform of the Church (1898).
GORHAM CASE: A well-known ecclesiastical litigation which agitated the Church of England in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1847 the Lord Chancellor presented the Rev. George Cornelius Gorham (b. 1787; d. 1857; B.A., Cambridge, 1808; M.A., 1812; B.D., 1820, fellow of Queen's College, 1810-27) to the living of Brampford Speke, near Exeter. The bishop of Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, a determined High-churchman, having doubts of Gorham 's orthodoxy, required him to submit to a searching examination, and, finding that his views concerning baptismal regeneration were highly Calvinistic and not in accord with those of the Church of England, refused to institute him. Gorham took the case into the Court of Arches (see Arches, Court of), which sustained the bishop