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., 1883), and Knox College, Toronto (1887), 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); Ovld 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: Congregationalist; b. at Oyne (18 ii. 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 1881-84, 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 (Bos ton, 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. (1871-79), 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, Ia. (1901-03), and president of Howard University, Washington (1903-06). He has written Three Children of Galilee (Boston, 1895).