Gordon was named af­ter Bu­rma mis­sion­a­ry Adon­i­ram Jud­son. He at­tended Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty and New­ton The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, and was or­dained a Bap­tist min­is­ter in 1863. He served at the Bap­tist church in Ja­mai­ca Plain, Mass­a­chu­setts, then at the Clar­en­don Street Bap­tist Church in Bos­ton. His works in­clude:

• The Cor­o­na­tion Hymn­al (with Ar­thur Pier­son) (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Amer­i­can Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­ci­e­ty, 1894)
• The Ser­vice of Songs for Bap­tist Church­es, 1871
• The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book, 1872
• Watch­word

Sources

Hymns

1. Good Morning in Glory
2. O Holy Ghost, Arise

Music

1. Gordon
2. In Ten­der­ness He Sought Me