25 years of the formation of the CBCNC, successive leaderships disregarded the clergy with the Laity in the lead, leading to obvious conflict of interest on the part of the Laity who showed scant regard to the Christian mission leading to a plethora of lawsuits and legal recourse leading to chaotic disruptions in the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars resulting in an irrevocable crisis that brewed in 1972 that caught the attention of Research Scholars, especially M. B. Diwakar who undertook a study titled, An Investigation into the historical antecedents of the crisis in the CBCNC during 1972 to 1974. Senate of Serampore College (University) In 1942, Theophilus became a Senator of the Senate of Serampore College (University) representing the Baptists of India in the Senate coinciding with the Registrarship and Principalship led by The Rev. C. E. Abraham and The Rev. G. H. C. Angus respectively. The setting of Bengal and India during 1942–1946 The period 1942-1946 when Theophilus was Senator of the University was a crucial one and managing a University during that period required great amounts of courage, patience and persistence on part of the Senators as the Second World War was already underway and India unwittingly became a participant in the World War II fighting the advance of the Japanese who launched the 'Operation U-Go' assisted by Netaji Subash Chandra Bose of the Azad Hind Fauj in the South-East Asian Theatre and as a consequence, it led to the Bengal famine of 1943 during which lakhs died as the Government sought a major portion of the harvest to help sustain the food supplies of the British Indian Army. 1942-1946 a period of exile for the University As for the Senate of Serampore College (University), the period has been termed by Prof. K. R. Chatterjee as a 'period of exile' as the British Indian Army sought the premises of Serampore College for use as a makeshift hospital and in the ensuing year in 1943, the whole College premises was made use of the military authorities. In such a situation, the Senate of Serampore College (University) had no option but to house the University and its College in makeshift premises at multiple locations, at the Serampore Union Institution on Bhattacharya Street, a rented house in Church Street, both in Serampore, at rented portions in Chandernagore, a French colony situated nearly 20 kilometres upstream of Hooghly river