Tamil David, The Tamil Evangelist

Welch, Ian Hamilton

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Tamil David, The Tamil Evangelist

Date

2014-03-27

Authors

Welch, Ian Hamilton

Abstract

David was a South Indian Tamil who became a major figure in Indian and Sri Lankan evangelical Christianity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was part of George Grubb's mission to Australia in 1891 and also worked with Dwight Moody in the United States in 1898.