A. J. Gordon

The story of A. J. Gordon recounts an epic journey--one of faith character and pioneering vision. A sterling educator philanthropist and herald of heaven he was a great soul and his life a resplendent legacy. This impeccably researched biography brings Dr. Gordon's world to life charting his rise to international prominence and his work with great peers and friends like D. L. Moody. Born in rural New Hampshire he was in many ways a renaissance man: an educator philanthropist author magazine editor antislavery advocate trustee of Brown University and the pastor of Clarendon Street Church in Boston. He also led groundbreaking mission work among Boston's immigrant communities chiefly Chinese and Hebrew groups. - They cherished his work among them. In 1889 Gordon founded the Boston Missionary Training School to give underprivileged young people an education they would not have had otherwise. Tuition was free and courses (taught by Ivy League-educated instructors) were open to young men and young women of many ethnicities-- African-American Chinese and Hebrew students among them. Gordon stoutly weathered storms of criticism over this but he persevered. His gifts as an author resonate still and his many books are now housed in places like the Bodleian Library Oxford Harvard Yale and Princeton.