Talluru Thomas Gabriel

Talluru Thomas Gabriel
Born December 15, 1837
Machilipatnam,[1] Andhra Pradesh, India
Died January[2] 1, 1875[3]
Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Missionary
Church Canadian Baptist Mission/Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
Ordained 1870[4]-1871[5] in Chennai[4]
Title The Reverend[6]

Talluru Thomas Gabriel[7] (born December 15, 1837;[5] died January 1, 1875[5][3]) was the founder[8][9] of the Canadian Baptist Mission[3] in India.

Thomas Gabriel was born in Machilipatnam[5] and grew up at Narasapur and Rajahmundry where he studied at the Lutheran School. After securing employment with the Telegraphs[3] Department in 1857, he worked at Rajahmundry and at Kakinada. Gabriel was influenced by the Lutheran[5] missionaries of Rajahmundry and became a Christian[4] through the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church.[3]

In addition to Thomas Gabriel's employment, he was active[10] in his new-found Christian faith. Gabriel was later transferred to Mumbai[4] but his sickness made him to go to Chennai in 1867[5] and in the Hospital, he came across Pastors of the American Baptist Mission/Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches and got baptized. Gabriel gave up[11] his job at the Telegraphs Department in 1869 to take up an ecclesiastical assignment with the Godavari Delta Mission but it was short-lived as he quit it in 1870 and got into business[3] in Kakinada to support himself after having exhausted all his money for the sake of the gospel.[5]

A chance stopover in Ramayapatnam at the Ramayapatnam Baptist Theoogical Seminary made Gabriel to appeal to the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec[12] through[13] John McLaurin to take up the Mission in northern coastal regions and thus led to the founding of the Canadian Baptist Mission in 1874[5] at Kakinada[14] with the arrival of John McLaurin[15] who came from Ramayapatnam to Kakinada by sea.

Gabriel died on January 1, 1875[16] uttering his last words, Jesus is precious.[16]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ John Craig, Forty Years Among the Telugus: A History of the Mission of the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, to the Telugus, South India, 1867-1907, p.316.
  2. ↑ Indian Church History Review, Volume 3, Church History Association of India, 1969, p.131.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brenton Hamline Badley, Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial, p.223.
  4. 1 2 3 4 A. V. Timpany, The Canadian Baptist Telugu Mission in The Missionary conference: south India and Ceylon, South India missionary conference, 1879, Volume 2, pp.282-285.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mary Stillwell McLaurin, Chetti Bhanumurti in John Craig, J. R. Stillwell, I. C. Archibald, A. E. Baskerville (Edited), Some of the Trophies: Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board Jubilee Volume, Telugu Trophies - The Jubilee story of some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924, American Baptist Publication Society, Toronto.
  6. ↑ The Missionary Review of the World, Volume 9, 1919, p.56
  7. ↑ C. L. Johnson, P. A. Srinivasa Rao, P. S. Sunder Singh (Edited), Canadian Baptist Mission 125 year's Jubilee Celebrations of Baptist Churches in Northern Circars, Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, 1999. .
  8. ↑ F. R. Hemingway, Godavari district gazetteer, Asian Educational Services, Chennai, 2000, p.40.
  9. ↑ Orville E. Daniel, Rising Tides in India, Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, 1963, p.72.
  10. ↑ Elizabeth Hayward (Edited), The Baptist Encyclopædia: A Dictionary, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, Volume 1, p.1181.
  11. ↑ The Missionary Review, Volume 28, Princeton Press, 1905, p.367
  12. ↑ The Gospel in All Lands, Proprietor, 1886, p.563
  13. ↑ Albert Henry Newman, A Century of Baptist Achievement, American Baptist publication society, p.142.
  14. ↑ Indica, Volume 37, 2000, p.42
  15. ↑ Edwin Munsell Bliss, The Encyclopedia of Missions, 1891, p.131
  16. 1 2 Teloogoo Mission Scrap Book, Expositor Book and Job Office, 1888, p.87.
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