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David Abeel was born on June 12, 1804 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Captain David Abeel, U. S. N. , "a man of strict morality and worth, " and Jane Hassert, "a lady possessed of deep piety" and gentleness.
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David Abeel was born on June 12, 1804 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Captain David Abeel, U. S. N. , "a man of strict morality and worth, " and Jane Hassert, "a lady possessed of deep piety" and gentleness.
At fifteen Abeel applied for admission to West Point, but, owing to the number of prior applications, he shortly withdrew his own and turned toward medicine. Hardly had he entered upon his course of training for a medical career when religion thrust its claim upon him. He became overwhelmed by a sense of sin and the need of his complete surrender to the will of God. This conversion turned him toward the Christian ministry and he entered in 1823, without previous college training, the New Brunswick Seminary of his church. In 1826 he graduated, and in October of the same year was ordained at Athens, New York.
Abeel entered upon a pastorate of two and one-half years at Athens, New York. His health was destined to play a leading part in his ministry. It shortened his pastorate at Athens and went far toward determining the schedule and character of all his subsequent service. His affliction was early diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis. During the winter of 1828-1829, which Abeel spent on the West Indian Island of St. John in quest of health, his mind turned definitely toward foreign missionary work, and he sought and received appointment as a chaplain of the Seamen's Friend Society, with an understanding also with the American Board.
On October 14, 1829, he sailed from New York on the ship Roman, arriving in Canton, February 25, 1830. He took up the duties of his chaplaincy and set about the study of the Fukien colloquial. Having a good ear for tones he gradually acquired a fair control of the Chinese dialect. He later learned some Malay and Siamese in connection with his travels. After a year in the chaplaincy, he joined by previous agreement the service of the American Board and remained therein until his death in his forty-third year. For various reasons, the times and his own health included, Abeel was not permitted to stay long at any one post. Leaving Canton at the end of December 1831, he visited Java, Malacca, Siam, and Singapore until finally ordered home to recuperate.
Sailing from the East early in 1833 he found sufficient renewal of energy to allow him to tarry in England, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Holland, giving addresses and attending conferences in behalf of missions. While in England he helped to found the Society for Promoting Female Education in China and the East. He spent the years from 1835 to 1838 in America in efforts to renew his health and to enlist among the members of his own denomination enthusiasm and volunteers for missionary service.
By the spring of 1839 he was again in the Far East. Finding the work in Canton hindered by the first Anglo-Chinese War, he journeyed again to the south visiting familiar fields and others in the Malay Archipelago. In October 1841 he returned northward along the China coast, establishing himself at Kolongsou, an island near Amoy. Upon the opening of Amoy as a treaty port he gave himself to the founding of the mission-station there. In January 1845 he was forced to leave Amoy on his last journey home. On arrival in America he lingered in rapidly failing health until his death in Albany, New York.
Abeel's presence and his writings combined to make him an unusually influential figure in the early days of modern missions. Among his writings are: To the Bachelors of India, by a Bachelor (1833); A Narrative of Residence in China (1834); The Claims of the World to the Gospel (1838); various pamphlets and tracts, and many articles in the Chinese Repository.
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Physically Abeel was weak and prone to illness, but he felt great passion for China and poured all his energy into his missionary work.
There is no record of Abeel's family.