Goody

( Colloq.) Mawkishly or weakly good; nam by-pam by; having a semblance of piety, with silline . Often used double; as, a goody - goody sort of person. Gordon, A. J., Baptist clergyman, was born in 1838; graduated from Brown University (1860) and Newton Theological Seminary (1863); was pastor of the Clarendon St. Baptist Church, in Boston, from 1869 until his death in 1895. Dr. G. was a man of intense spirituality, whose influence was great. He wrote: In Christ ; The Ministry of the Spirit , .