Personality and Beliefs
Gordon, who never married, was 5-feet 5 inches tall; the rev. Reginald Barnes, who knew him well, describes him as "of the middle height, very strongly built". He was a Christian evangelist who visited the sick and old and set up a boys' club in Gravesend in Kent.
He was an eccentric who believed amongst other things that the Earth was enclosed in a hollow sphere with God's throne directly above the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Devil inhabiting the opposite point of the globe near Pitcairn Island in the Pacific. He also believed that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Praslin in the Seychelles.
Gordon believed in reincarnation. In 1877, he wrote in a letter: "This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.”
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