Introduction

Biography

Adoniram was the son of John Cal­vin Gor­don and Sal­ly Til­ton Ro­bin­son, and hus­band of Ma­ria T. Hale. He 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.

Works

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