About a quarter of four one afternoon three young men were standing together on a road leading down to a swift-running river. It was an old road beaten down hard by thousands of feet through hundreds of years. It led down to the river and then along its bank through a village scatteringly nestled by the fords of the river. The young men were intently absorbed in conversation.
Samuel Dickey Gordon was a widely traveled speaker in high demand. A prolific author, he wrote more than 25 devotional books. He also traveled to Europe and Asia as a missionary. A plain man, controlled by a strong desire to edify God's people, he won the respect of the learned and at the same time the affection of the simple.