Talluru Thomas Gabriel

Founder of CBCNC
Talluru Thomas Gabriel
Pastor
Born
Talluru Marayya[2]

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

Talluru Thomas Gabriel[7] (born December 15, 1837;[2] died January 1, 1875[2][6]) was the founder[8][9] of the Canadian Baptist Mission[6] in India.

Early life and education

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Thomas Gabriel was born in Machilipatnam[2] and grew up at Narasapur and Rajahmundry where he studied at the Lutheran School. After securing employment with the Telegraphs[6] Department in 1857, he worked at Rajahmundry and at Kakinada. Gabriel was influenced by the Lutheran[2] missionaries of Rajahmundry and became a Christian[1] through the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church.[6]

In addition to Thomas Gabriel's employment, he was active[10] in his new-found Christian faith. Gabriel was later transferred to Mumbai[1] but his sickness made him to go to Chennai in 1867[2] and in the Hospital, he came across Pastors of the American Baptist Mission/Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches and got baptized.[citation needed]

Ministry

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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[6] in Kakinada to support himself after having exhausted all his money for the sake of the gospel.[2]

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[2] 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]

References

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Notes
  1. ^ a b c d 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. [1]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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]
  3. ^ The Missionary Review of the World, Volume 9, 1919, p.56
  4. ^ 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]
  5. ^ Indian Church History Review, Volume 3, Church History Association of India, 1969, p.131. [4]
  6. ^ a b c d e f Brenton Hamline Badley, Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial, p.223. [5]
  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. [6].
  8. ^ F. R. Hemingway, Godavari district gazetteer, Asian Educational Services, Chennai, 2000, p.40. [7]
  9. ^ Orville E. Daniel, Rising Tides in India, Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, 1963, p.72. [8]
  10. ^ Elizabeth Hayward (Edited), The Baptist Encyclopædia: A Dictionary, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, Volume 1, p.1181. [9]
  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. [10]
  14. ^ Indica, Volume 37, 2000, p.42
  15. ^ Edwin Munsell Bliss, The Encyclopedia of Missions, 1891, p.131
  16. ^ a b Teloogoo Mission Scrap Book, Expositor Book and Job Office, 1888, p.87.[11]
Further reading
  • Brenton Hamline Badley (1881). "Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume". Methodist Episcopal Church Press. gabriel. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • C. L. Johnson; P. A. Srinivasa Rao; P. S. Sunder Singh (1999). "Canadian Baptist Mission 125 year's Jubilee Celebrations of Baptist Churches in Northern Circars". Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada. OCLC 433990749. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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