Talluru Thomas Gabriel

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Founder of CBCNC
Talluru Thomas Gabriel
Pastor
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Born
Talluru Marayya [1]

(1837-12-15)15 December 1837
Masulipatnam, [2] Colonial India
Died1 January 1875(1875-01-01) (aged 37) [3] [4]
Burial placeJagannaickpur CBM-Cemetery, Kakinada
Known forInspiring missions
Church Canadian Baptist Mission/Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
Ordained1870 [5] -1871 [1] in Chennai [5]
TitlePastor [6]

Talluru Thomas Gabriel [7] (born December 15, 1837; [1] died January 1, 1875 [1] [4] ) was the founder [8] [9] of the Canadian Baptist Mission [4] in India.

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Early life and education

Thomas Gabriel was born in Machilipatnam [1] and grew up at Narasapur and Rajahmundry where he studied at the Lutheran School. After securing employment with the Telegraphs [4] Department in 1857, he worked at Rajahmundry and at Kakinada. Gabriel was influenced by the Lutheran [1] missionaries of Rajahmundry and became a Christian [5] through the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church. [4]

In addition to Thomas Gabriel's employment, he was active [10] in his new-found Christian faith. Gabriel was later transferred to Mumbai [5] but his sickness made him to go to Chennai in 1867 [1] and in the Hospital, he came across Pastors of the American Baptist Mission/Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches and got baptized.[ citation needed ]

Ministry

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 [4] in Kakinada to support himself after having exhausted all his money for the sake of the gospel. [1]

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 [1] at Kakinada [14] with the arrival of John McLaurin [15] who came from Ramayapatnam to Kakinada by sea.

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

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Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Indian Church History Review, Volume 3, Church History Association of India, 1969, p.131.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brenton Hamline Badley, Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial, p.223.
  5. 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.
  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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