AuthorRobert Gordon (1786-1853)

Rev. Dr. Robert Gordon (1786-1853) was a prominent minister in the Church of Scotland and served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1841. At the General Assembly in 1842, Gordon seconded the adoption of the claim of right moved by Thomas Chalmers. During the convocation held in Roxburgh Church in the following November, Gordon presided, and delivered a speech, described as the best apology for the Free Church of Scotland position. Following the Disruption of 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland and was minister of the Free High Church of Edinburgh until his death.

He was educated initially at the University of Edinburgh, then in 1809, transferred to Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he achieved high honours in science; he was the inventor of a self-registering hygrometer—a device to measure the humidity and water content in confined spaces, which he discussed with the notable physicist and Free Church man, Dr. David Brewster.

The Danger of Formal Worship

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Of the Prophet Isaiah, we are told by himself that he prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. By referring, therefore, to the history of these reigns, as they are recorded in the books of Kings and Chronicles, we may form a correct estimate of the character of the age in which he lived, and of the state of religion among the people whom he addressed;

An Introductory Essay to John Howe’s “The Redeemer’s Tears”

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It can hardly have escaped the observation of anyone who has read the Bible with attention, that in all the communications which the Almighty has been pleased to make to his rebellious subjects, he has employed language the best calculated to make its way to the heart and affections of mankind—that, while his remonstrances with the impenitent present a lamentable picture of the most unreasonable hostility, and unprovoked aggression on their part, they bear testimony, at the same time, to the most compassionate forbearance on his—and that, as often as he directly addresses the penitent and believing, whether it be in the way of reproof or of consolation, it is still in terms that breathe all the affectionate tenderness of a father’s love.

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