Background
Krishna Pal was born in 1764 in Calcutta, India.
founder Missionary Baptist missionary
Krishna Pal was born in 1764 in Calcutta, India.
In his mid-thirties, he broke his arm doing his carpentry job. This lead him to Doctor John Thomas, a doctor from the Baptist Missionary Society (founded by William Carey) who told Krishna Pal with the help of Joshua Marshman, of a disease they said was even more deadly—sin. He renounced his caste at around the same time while he was eating in public with missionaries.
Foreign the next twenty years, until his death in 1822, 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," "O Thou, My Soul, Forget Number More" and "Salvation by the Death of Christ." Many of these hymns were translated from Bengali to English by John Marshman.