Babu Rao a former student of E. C. John, ensured that Melanchton remained in the College Faculty Quarters in spite of his illness. As for Theophilus, given the condition that he was in, the Canadian Baptist Ministries took Theophilus under its care right from the time of his education in the mission schools, the sudden death of his parents one after the other within a span of ten days, and the time when he was stricken with tuberculosis. In December 2014, nearly seventy years after the death of Theophilus at the portals of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Kakinada, the seminary witnessed another upset when a Baptist patriarch who was preaching at the seminary Christmas collapsed onto the pulpit and while delivering a sermon evidently at the same spot where Theophilus collapsed and died. Seminarians recall these two events, though decades apart, of the successive Baptist Patriarchs who met untimely deaths at the seminary portals and incidentally, both of them had much concern for the clergy and the seminary. Reminiscence The Rev. T. Gnananandam writing in the Silver Jubilee Souvenir of the CBCNC in 1972 brings to light the fact that Theophilus was involved with the administration of not only the CBCNC which worked with the Telugu people but also with the other three vernacular associations in Odisha, The Kui language people - Kui Baptist Association (KBA), The Odiya language people - Utkal Baptist Churches Association (UBCA), The Soura language people - Soura Baptist Christian Mandali Sammilani (SBCMS), T. Gnananandam wrote, References Notes Further reading 1946 deaths Indian Baptist missionaries 1895 births Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni Academic staff of the Senate of Serampore College (University) Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars Indian Christian theologians Telugu people People from Krishna district 20th-century Indian philosophers Telugu-language writers 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 20th-century Indian writers Writers from Andhra Pradesh Baptist missionaries in India Canadian Baptist Ministries Tuberculosis deaths in India 20th-century Baptists