Krishna Pal (1764–1822) was the first Indian convert to Christianity due to the missionary activity of William Carey, the founder of the Baptist Missionary Society, and his co-workers.
Krishna Pal was born in Calcutta. After his conversion and baptism in the River Ganges in December 1800, he renounced his caste. He wrote the hymn O Thou, My Soul, Forget No More which was translated from Bengali to English by Joshua Marshman.
Krishna Pal preached the gospel for twenty years before his death in 1822.
Krishna Pal was born in Calcutta, India, 1764. In his mid-thirties, he broke his arm doing his carpentry job. This lead him to Dr. John Thomas, a doctor from the Baptist Missionary Society (founded by William Carey) who told Krishna Pal with the help of Joshua Marshman, of an even more deadly disease - sin. Pal was very moved by the story of God's salvation and was baptised by William Carey in the River Ganges a month later, making him the first Indian convert to Christianity. He renounced his caste at around the same time while he was eating in public with missionaries.
For the next twenty years of his life, Pal devoted himself to the ministry of the people in Calcutta and built a house for worship there. In these twenty years he wrote hymns such as the Shipwrecked Sinner looking to Jesus and O Thou, my Soul, Forget no More and Salvation by the Death of Christ. Many of these hymns were translated from Bengali to English by John Marshman.
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