Edwards’s zeal for converts led him to support MIS-SIONS to the Native Americans, and his 1749 account of the missionary DAVID BRAINERD would inspire later Protestant mission efforts. A dispute with his Northampton congregation over his desire...

Adoniram Judson Gordon ("A.J.") was born in New Hampshire on April 13, 1836. His father, Baptist deacon John Calvin Gordon, was a Calvinist. His mother, Sally Robinson Gordon, was later described by this son as a "minister whose family (of twelve...