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Gordon (GEORGE ANGIER an American)

GEORGE ANGIER, an American clergyman and writer; born in Scotland in 1853. He attended the common schools in Scotland and removed to the United States in 1871. He graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1877 and from Harvard University in 1881. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1877, and was pastor of churches in Maine and in Greenwich, Conn., from 1881 to 1883. In the following year he was appointed pastor of the Old South Church, Boston. He was university preacher at Harvard from 1886 to 1890, and at Yale from 1888 to 1901. He was an overseer of Harvard University from 1897 to 1916.

He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His published writings include "The Christ of To-day" (1895); "The New Epoch for Faith" (1901); "Through Man to God" (1906); "Humanism in New England Theology' (1920). He was president of the Harvard Alumni Association in 1918.